ernest ching – Google

The understated performances of the actors and lack of fake gung-ho with pyrotechnic atmospherics serves this storytelling well. It portrays men and women who do not see themselves as heroes and who hate being called heroes making difficult decisions and sacrifices for the sake of others. It reveals their own admiration and regard for those whom they feel are making even much greater sacrifices than they themselves are. The soundtrack was expertly and dramatically arranged to enhance the changing emotions and moods of the individuals and of the situations within the narrative, switching back and forth smoothly and gracefully between the actors in color and the actual black and white film footage of the War in the Pacific and of the aftermath of the Great Raid itself. Beautifully done.