Why it's great: The shell-shock of war, in all its
overwhelming chaos, hits the audience like an assault on the senses. Before
"Saving Private Ryan," nothing like this was ever put on-screen.
Why it
... morehas lasted: There still hasn't been anything like it.
Spielberg creates an overwhelming experience in his orchestration of chaos:
bullets tear through air, water, flesh; men stagger about, lost and limbless;
explosions shatter the dull scream of war; soldiers bleed, fall and die, just so
many bodies in the detritus of battle. Spielberg's razor-sharp images are
charged with panic, his camera is almost too alert as it takes in the shocking
information overload. War has never been portrayed as so intimidating, so
terrifying and so arbitrarily destructive.
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