What is it about religion and lines drawn on a map that strips us of our humanity?
Today Amanda and I saw The Kingdom starring Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner and the always great Chris Cooper. Obviously, it is fictional, but it paints a chilling portrait of the evils of terrorism and the devastating toll incurred by its victims, opponents and even the families of its perpertrators. The film never portrays terrorists in even a gray area-the bad guys are the bad guys. It does, however, show the cost the investigators pay to track down the terrorist villians.
The film looks unflinchingly at the collateral damage and sheer death and destruction wrought by the terrorists and those seeking to avenge their handiwork. Please don't misuderstand, I am in no way saying that terrorists shouldn't be tracked, caught and punished. I simply can't understand what drives people to do these things to each other. The price paid should be too high for intelligent human beings to treat each other this way. This tear-inducing film serves as an artistic representation of the sad facts that are all too real.
2 comments:
I used to think that at the root of all humanity...what at its most basic linked us all together was the desire to live and for our children to live.
After seeing bombs strapped to happy go lucky looking toddlers holding AK47s I no longer think that.
I am afraid of the terrorists.
It is certainly incredibly hard to comprehend.
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