The Kingdom

On Saturday, I sat down to the TV and flicked through the movies which were on. The Kingdom got my attention. The blurb said something about FBI and the Iraq war so I thought I would watch it and see if it was any good.

It starts off with a breif introduction about how the Iraq war started, due to oil etc. In this action movie, I actually learnt a lot of history.

Predictable in so many ways, the movie took a highly sensitive political issue and treated it like a glossy Schwarzenegger movie, complete with corny one-liners. It was certainly gripping but it is difficult (and a little distasteful) to find violence and action entertaining when such weighty topics are being thrown around.

This film didn't know whether it wanted to be an action blockbuster or an affecting piece of moralising like Blood Diamond.

There was ONE line which really inspired me to write this blog. At the bigining of the movie, when an American Agent is killed by a suicide bomber, his friend starts to cry. Another Agent walks up to the friend and whispers something in her ear.

At the end of the movie, just before the terrorist leader is killed, he whispers something to his son.

At the very end of the movie, the audience is told what was whispered to both American Agent and Iraqi Terrorist. They said exactly the same thing.

Don't Worry, We're Gonna Kill Them All

That line inspired me. It sums up war perfectly. War is just a big hatred of other people. War is discusing, it's like a playground fight but one punch means death, and there arn't just 2 people, there are thousands apon thousands, and then you have the completly innocent victims.

The thought I want to leave you with after reading this...War is discusting, we live on this Earth with 6 billion other people, and we need to learn to be nice to one another, or atleast be peacful. There are British men fighting all over the world for our safety. They, in my eyes, are the bravest men in the world.

God Bless The Soldiers