its second act really is the biggest offender here, its sooo big to the point where i feel like nothing is happening. i mean there is but its third act is soooo much better.
what makes this ultimately good tho is its lead performance and the fact that on the surface, this kid seems priviliged because of his racist parents and people around him but its deeper then that, his life makes him think japanese people are beneath him until his maiden slaps him.
he doesn't know any better and in its third act, spielberg creates a mirror between bale's character and a japanese soldiers who looks like a kid.
where bale's character is nurtured into being oblivious, allot of other kids are send to war but neither of them really can escape.
both sides get lost in blood.
it also is just better then allot of war films because it doesn't wastes its time with hundreds of characters we don't and never will know and sets its focus on one character.
really that second act bogs it down so much.
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