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Hacksaw Ridge and Fantastic Beast

Two of the recent movie I have seen in theaters are the new war movie Hacksaw Ridge and Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them. Both movies were very good in different ways. Hacksaw Ridge being a historical war movie and Fantastic Beast being a fantasy, prequel of the Harry Potter franchise.  Hacksaw Ridge is a war movie about a young man, Desmond Doss, who enlist, but refuses to kill. He endures many hardships including his father, his fellow soldiers and much of the rest of the army. His father is a former soldier who lost many of his fellow soldiers. He has become a abusive alcoholic and is angry when Doss enlist in the army. His mother being religious and his father being still hurt from his own time at war, both question his motives when war has a lot of violence. He enlist to become a medic, but has many struggles before he can reach that. Many people doubt him, but he never falters on his beliefs even when things are confusing to even him. The movie is very deep and real, but