10 Hidden Meanings Of Famous Movie Scenes
3. Lost In Translation - Saving Private Ryan
The opening half hour of Saving Private Ryan is a shocking, visceral piece of cinema that might be one of the most stunning of Spielberg’s career. The violence and carnage on display are far from an easy watch, and the constant bloodshed isn’t for the faint of heart.
Young soldiers are cut to pieces by explosions and machine gun fire, and near the end of the sequence, some American soldiers are seen executing some surrendering Germans. It’s tragic because of their total lack of empathy – they even make a joke about it afterwards – and the fact the men they killed weren’t even Nazis.
One of them tries to explain they're actually Czech civilians who were forced into the Nazi army, and that they didn’t kill anyone. This makes an already grim sequence even darker and watching this moment with the translation in mind is the cherry on top of the misery cake.