From Hacksaw Ridge, photo courtesy Icon Productions and Summit Entertainment
Hacksaw Ridge: Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) is no coward. When World War II begins, he wants to do his part and go to the front. But here’s the catch: Desmond, because of his religious beliefs and his own past, has rejected violence. But he signs up anyway, and even under withering pressure from his superiors and fellow soldiers, he sticks to his guns by refusing to pick up his own. “With the world so set on tearing itself apart,” he says, “it don’t seem like such a bad thing to me to want to put a little bit of it back together.” Hacksaw Ridge marks director Mel Gibson’s return to moviemaking relevance, and he does so in a characteristically bloody film. But you need that violence to drive home the strength of Desmond’s faith and ideals, and stresses just how heroic the guy (who was a real war hero) really was.
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