I’m always enticed by movies that are “true”
stories. When I saw the previews for “The
Monuments Men” starring George Clooney and Matt Damon – I knew I wanted
to see the movie not for the big name actors, but for a story I knew nothing
about. I’m not a history buff, so I was
really surprised to learn about The Monuments Men and to know why
they risked their lives for art. The
movie told the story of a group of men, who believed in saving the masterpieces
from the countries which Hitler had ravaged, for the generations to come and
for the people that had lived and died.
These men, portrayed by Clooney, Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean
Dujardin, Bob Balaban, and Hugh Bonneville are curators and historians of art
who have been tasked with the unfathomable job of finding missing pieces that
Hitler has stolen to use in a museum he was to create after the war. To be honest, there were parts of the movie
that dragged on, that weren’t needed, and sometimes the action was rushed, but, the story itself of the
self-sacrificing commitment these men had was what really moved the movie
along. The end of the movie was very
interesting as they told how many pieces of artwork were stolen and the
incredible places they hid most of it. The more I read about this story, the
more I appreciate what they did and how they saved historical pieces that are
still in museums today. (The more
in-depth story can be found in the book with the same title as the movie by
Robert Edsel).
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