How accurate is the gore in saving private Ryan? (Especially the opening scene)

by goatnoiseboy

I know it was awful, and I've looked up some info about the accuracies of the movie, but have found only that the movie was realistic, amd nothing about the gore or violence itself. I mean, were people really getting cut in half by machine guns? The image of the guy carrying his own disembodied arm really sticks out to me, because i feel like there would be no way somebody could be able to not only stand up and run, but carry something while bleeding out to hell. I have absolutely no knowledge of anatomy, but just like previously mentioned, there are plenty of men with their entire ribcage exposed who are fully concious amd not bleeding out like a fire hydrant.

BezBezson

The human body is a weird thing, sometimes very little kills you, sometimes you survive a lot.

There have been multiple cases of people surviving being shot twenty-something times.
There's a soldier who not only lost his arm to a grenade, but who continued fighting for four hours afterwards, killing 31 enemy soldiers.

The have been people who have not noticed limbs being amputated.