Kristen and I went to see this movie tonight “on a date.” Let’s just say it is not a date movie. I really wanted to see it since I had heard so many good things about it, but I was unprepared. I would put it in the same category as The Passion of the Christ, or Schindler’s List or Black Hawk Down.
I don’t know jack squat about the “oos” and “ahhs” of film making. But this was about a story. A story that deserves to be told and a story that should wake us up as Americans. A key moment is when the UN colonel tells the main character, “You are nothing to them. The entire Western world doesn’t want to get involved. You are on your own.”
This reminds me deeply of the work of Gary Haugen and The Intenational Justice Mission. Movies like this beg the question “what can I do?” and the unfortunate reality is the the baby boomers who run the world don’t care. The GenX (which includes me) is worse… But there is an emerging American generation that can and will arise to meet these challenges. We can act and we must.
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