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Saving Private Ryan” Directed by Steven Spielberg “Saving Private Ryan,” is a film portraying the events and hardships of World War II. Using the overpowering techniques of modern film, Steven Spielberg has cut through the glory-tinged gauze the shrouds World War II and revealed its brutal reality. Director Steven Spielberg brings to the audience the sheer madness of war and the search for decency within it. That search ends for a group of soldiers whose mission it is too save Private Ryan. Although the film shows horrific and realistic battle scenes along with historically correct settings and situations with weapons and injuries true to their time, the film’s portrayal of war goes a lot deeper than that. The expressions and feelings of soldiers along with their morals and ideology are depicted with the horror of war. The lives and deaths of American soldiers in the immediate part of the invasion of Normandy and the battle of Omaha Beach are illustrated more realistically than ever before. The killing appears to be overdone as the young men step off the transport boat, being killed one after another, but when consulting with history of the battle, that is almost exactly how the battle took place. “Sav