Eastwood o Iwo Jimie. Japońska obrona wyspy w amerykańskim filmie

The article presents Clint Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima" as an challenge for American audience. While when American spectator is wathing the film about Japanese soldiers defending their homeland against Marines, he starts to feel empathy and starts to identify with film characters, with Japaneses. There is unusual in cinema tension in receiving this film by American: tension between what is foreign and what is perceived as my own. Kaniecki takes also a topic of the symbol of ancient Greek in this picture. In director's showing defenders situation can be seen a reference to a Thermopylae topos.