"Saving Private Ryan and American triumphalism" was featured in Journal of Popular Film and Television and was written by Albert Auster. Unlike David Walsh's opinion that Saving Private Ryan was a bogus movie, Auster believes that the film was true to the war and was depicted in a very truthful form. He provides many reasons why he believes that the film is very accurate, including references to other films such as A Walk in the Sun, and by referring to specific scenes. Overall, Albert Auster's argument is supported by many examples and is completely viable.
I feel that the following quote justly describes Auster's knowledge of the topic he is arguing and captivates the entire piece.
Despite the originality of the ground-level shots, drained colors, camera lenses spotted with water and blood, and the hellish scenes of GIs screaming or searching for severed limbs, the images still rely for their inspiration on those old, grainy combat photos and newsreels that have been the iconic symbol of the D-Day invasion since the end of the war.
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