Hacksaw Ridge Response Writing

Hacksaw Ridge is a true movie based on Desmond Doss a world war 2 medic and a conscientious objector who saved 75 lives behind enemy lines without even carrying a gun. It came out in November 2016 and is directed by Mel Gibson, it is rated R15.

It is an action packed movie with lots of graphic detail and an amazing story line.

The movie is special because it is a true story where a conscientious objector is a hero. Conscientious objectors were named cowards and were disliked. Desmond Doss became the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor and the only conscientious objector to receive it in WW2

I like this movie because it has lots of action and interesting scenes and you don’t get bored. During the movie there is lots of explosions and gunfire and interesting parts when you are nervous like when he was in the tunnel and the Japanese were around every corner.

Overall I loved the movie since it is really graphic unique, is action packed and has a great story line.

I recommend this movie to anyone who likes action movies or war movies and is mature enough to see bloody graphic scenes.

For my creative response I made a small video. It is a small reenacted scene of the movie where Desmond doss drags a wounded soldier behind cover and gives him morphine in the middle of a battle. I chose to do this because I thought it would be fun to do. Here is the video.

Walls of China is a painting made by Russell Drysdale in 1945. It involves a barrenness Australian outback landscape with a dead tree as the focus and dark colours.

It is a very gloomy piece of art but the colours contrast and the painting technique used makes it looked sort of smudged and mixed.

I like how the colours are dark and gloomy but they also contrast and really stand out.  The colours are red,  brown, yellow, white and black.

I like how the painting technique looks smudged on half of the painting but the other half  is neat lines with lots of detail. The ground and sky is smudged and blended but the dead tree has lots of detail.

I like this art since it is dark and gloomy but the colours contrast. The paint in some parts is mixed and  smudged which I like and in other parts it has got lots of detail. I recommend this for anyone who likes dark colours.