Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Do the Right Thing

When I watch this movie, nothing really hit me, but in the last scene that the riot was happening. That scene really make me realize so many things. I realize that even though this movie had been made such a long time ago. In the present there are still small war like this happening that is related to racists. Like right now there is a small war in the south east Asia that some people don't like the Muslim and now they are bombing the town and killing the innocent people just because they are Muslim. I think that it is really unfair, because all culture teaches us to be good, but how they teach is not always be the same like the other culture. In the movie they showed how black people are treated badly by the white police. I still sees that it is still happening today. Because the color of the skin, and because of how a person look, makes the people look at each other in a different way. Doesn't mean that if you are black, that's means that you are dirty and poor. Or, if you see an Asian, they have a black hair, the color of their skin is not white, but kinda yellow, doesn't mean that they are not as good as the white people. Because they are born like that, they are not the one that decides if they wanted to be black or not. This movie really makes me think about the things around me, and how people treated me because I am different from the other people.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

The Battle of the Algiers

The story was completely true. Many people really enjoy to watch this movie, because it gives us information and really be able to let the later generation to really see how it was like in the war. So people could get to understand how it was like. They also compare the movie in the present too, they talk that it is quite similar to the war in Iraq. The movie won the film festival, and the movie was studied.

When I was listening to this, they still talk about the war in Iraq and I realize that this war in Iraq was happening for a really long time. It is like 8 years already when the war had begun. I also wondered why people have war and in that war we are helping each other. Like in the movie, they French come down to the village to give the people bread and food to eat when they are fighting each other. Not only that in the Iraq even though American and Iraq are fighting each other they still help each other. So I wondered why if we know how to share and know how to give, why should we have war? Can't there be love between countries? Like right now there are so many organizations and government that wanted to make peace all over the world. They have AFS, EF, and etc. Sending students to all the place all over the world to learn each other cultures. So we would be able to understand each other and love one another. The kings and the queen and the president of nearly every country fly all over the place to meet with the king and queen and president of nearly every country. Getting to know each other. So there would be no more war. It would be such a wonderful world when all the war are stopped and all the country unite and love one another.