• Watch Movie Letters From Iwo Jima

Watch Movie Letters From Iwo Jima

Hollywood is often criticised for dehumanising its enemies, reducing them to shadowy shapes behind bursts of gunfire and the occasional Wilhelm scream. Somewhat understandable for a 1940s propaganda pic, but more recent examples (Black Hawk Down springs to mind) have left a sour taste in the mouth. Had Flags Of Our Fathers — Clint Eastwood’s account of the US servicemen photographed raising Old Glory at the peak of Mount Suribachi — been Eastwood’s only Iwo Jima movie, then no doubt it would have drawn similar critical heat. But Clint couldn’t leave it there, with what he saw as half an untold story. So now we have something rather unprecedented: an entire, separate movie, released only a few months later, devoted entirely to the other side of the conflict. Grub4dos gui.