Tears of the Sun
Went out with my wife to see Tears of the Sun last night. I wasn't expecting what I got. I fully expected another US-soldier-hero movie, with all the bravado and bullet-dodging effects that usually show up in such movies. Instead, Tears of the Sun proved to be a horrifying portral of a civil war in Nigeria. Hearing about it in the news, and seeing it in this movie is probably nothing in comparison to what the people of Rwana (yes, I know the film is set in Nigeria) lived through during their civil war. The brutality of ethnic cleansing was hard to watch. The one line that I liked that Bruce Willis delivered was, "For our sins." He said it when his Navy Seal team had resigned themselves to risk their lives to save a group of Nigerian civilians. The movie was a hero movie. I think it did set out to portray Americans as heroes, and there is nothing wrong with that. The movie was about people make the right choice, the good choice, knowing the risks. The film ended with the Edmund Burke quote: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Went out with my wife to see Tears of the Sun last night. I wasn't expecting what I got. I fully expected another US-soldier-hero movie, with all the bravado and bullet-dodging effects that usually show up in such movies. Instead, Tears of the Sun proved to be a horrifying portral of a civil war in Nigeria. Hearing about it in the news, and seeing it in this movie is probably nothing in comparison to what the people of Rwana (yes, I know the film is set in Nigeria) lived through during their civil war. The brutality of ethnic cleansing was hard to watch. The one line that I liked that Bruce Willis delivered was, "For our sins." He said it when his Navy Seal team had resigned themselves to risk their lives to save a group of Nigerian civilians. The movie was a hero movie. I think it did set out to portray Americans as heroes, and there is nothing wrong with that. The movie was about people make the right choice, the good choice, knowing the risks. The film ended with the Edmund Burke quote: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
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