Shortly after the movie came out, I saw a
political cartoon portraying the different view points from a
teenager and a
veteran.
One side was the vet saying something about
the horrors of Pearl Harbor. The
teenager is on the other side saying "
The special effects were awesome." At the bottom is the
caption, "
How Pearl Harbor will be remembered."
With this in mind, I saw the movie on
Memorial Day. The
battle sequence was very well done. It did show how much destruction the
Japanese caused and revealed the death and carnage not only on the ships and ground, but also in the
hospital.
The
love story aspect of it was different for a war movie.
Saving Private Ryan had a love in it, the
brotherhood that forms between men. This movie had it, but it also had a
love triangle with
Ben Affleck. However, the war and
love scenes were separated so it seemed that the
war memories were not desecrated by a
Ben Affleck love story.