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Which scene really got to you?


The Pacific is full of both gruesome, and emotional scenes. But which scene really got to you? As in, which scene really made you feel something, be it bad or good? I'm curious.

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just about every battle scene, when they really amped up the intensity of the fighting, surpassed almost anything i've seen on a screen.

as for the noncombat scenes:
-the one that made me physically cringe was the screaming baby scene. any dad knows that noise, but hearing and seeing it in that context was intense.
-the scene with the other baby, held by the mom who desperately is trying to get one of the marines to take it because she knows she's going to blow up and wants to save her baby's life.
-bergin hugging his younger brother after getting off the train.
-sledge hugging his parents.
-sledge trying to get the maggots off him after falling in the hole next to the decomposing body.
-leckie's line, "you're breaking up with me because you think i'm going to get killed," stood out.
-and of course the tossing rocks into the open head scene.

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Burgin hugging his brother got me too. It's the little things

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The one where Mr. Robot's tossing pebbles in some pon's sliced skull blood pond.

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Surprised that no one has mentioned the scene right after the baby where Sledge comforts a dying woman. Every time I see I sob like a baby.

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The one soldier choking the Japanese soldier to death with his bare hands, or the woman who was forced to carry the baby while she had explosives tied around her waist.

I was not aware the Japanese used civilians as human bombs, but I of course do not know everything.

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