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We few, we happy few
21 of 22 Yahoo! Users found this review helpful Shakespeare would be proud. It was his England these American farm boys came to protect. And they did. With honor, with venality, with courage, cowardice, modesty and self agrandizement. Most of all, they did it with blood. As war is violent in the extreme, so is it portrayed. War and all it's glory and stupidity gushes from the screen. The people who lived it, add to the narrative with their own stories. They are all old men now, yet still they cannot recall their 50-year old memories without choking back tears and horror.The story is incredible.
The performances are stunning.
The photography is exceptional.
Even the title, from Henry V's speech before the battle at Harfleur is both apt and poignant.
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers,
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day." ...