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Thread #141133   Message #3246932
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
30-Oct-11 - 07:50 AM
Thread Name: BS: 'Our Spirits Don't Speak English'
Subject: RE: BS: 'Our Spirits Don't Speak English'
If you cannot even be bothered to watch the clip below either, then I have nothing further to add to any of your comments, for they are built on hollow ground.

That is indeed a very fair comment. So I watched it. Now I am fully convinced that my first judgement of the film was correct.

Yet another load of people damaged by others. Exactly the same as the oppression or even worse, extermination, of one group of people by any another. I am far from hardened to anyones plight but I cannot bring myself to feel anger at it. Sympathy, yes. But what good is that? None at all. No amount of media generated anger will mend the past or heal the present. Like I said before, there is good and bad in every group of people. Inciting anger at one set of people because a small minority did some attrocious things is tantamount to racism and I will have no part of it.

Incidentaly, I did watch Ken Loaches 'The wind that shakes the barley' because that has a lot more meaning for me. And I left that in the same mind. Anyone that portrays one whole group of people as demons and another as angels is trying to fool you.

DtG