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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
The Jewish guy having the knife turned back on him...ugh, I don't really watch that scene.
And of course Hanks.
You're right, that movie is just dramatic death after dramatic death. Barry Pepper staring down the barrel of a tank would be jarring as hell in any other movie but somehow it just gets lost in the morass of uncomfortable moments in that one.
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It doesn't help that the elderly Damon character looked and dressed and comported himself just like my paternal grandpa. What should be a maudlin scene just pours it on personally. Though I conflate my maternal grandpa's experiences with my paternal grandpa's appearance.
It tears me up, my PG [I'll shorten it for brevity] postwar was so idyllic though he went through a lot, while my MG went through soi much more, SO MUCH MORE and America ignored him post war. MG never got more than $200 a month for post war pension, which disappeared for my grandma after he died. He might not have benefited from the GI Bill but it never even explained to him and he made his living sharecropping and salvaging copper from dumps his whole life. Both my GMa and uncle died in charity hospitals [my uncle after developing heart trouble after volunteering to sandbag the local river running off the Mississippi in the last big flood in 2002-2003.
OTOH, my PG basically lived the American dream, Union job repairing Union Pacific brakes from 46-85. Modest vacations, prudent saving, a nice nest egg at the end.
Even for him, he died of pulmonary emphysema way ahead of time after working with train brake discs half his life and his brother, who was a UNION GUY, told him he had no case while asbestos cases are probably the biggest slam dunks in litigation these days.