Score: 0
"Yeah..."
date: December 29, 2001
As with other films that have the same, I complement one thing right off the bat about this film. Though the idea of bombings, and knowing the general collateral damage they are more than capable of causing, doesn't sit well with me, this particular film seemed to not be applying it to the whole of Afghanistan or to Islamic countries in general, but only to one person. Even the precision required to hit the target could be a strange sort of support for that notion. However, though those factors were not included, I was never the less disturbed by two more factors. One was the fact of another gruesome death intended to cause pleasure for the watchers, and the other was a mock up of a public jovial display of a human skeleton with the head attached. I think displays like this, or the intentions behind them, are, I'm afraid, monstrosities and sickness of the human mind. I think its a terrible thing for anyone anywhere to be so consumed with hate and anger as to wish for the death of another person or nation. I think most would agree with me, because many people do that every day around the world, and every time it's on the news, is it not looked on with disdain? What more, I think it is bad for any person anywhere to allow themselves to be so ruled by vengeance and anger, and to become so hateful and lusting for the blood of another. I would call any nation barbaric that would display the bloody skeleton of anyone, regardless of what they had done, like some trophy. That's a throwback to the days of medievalism. And I would never want to encourage any event that would only serve to cultivate more hate and rage within people, to satiate a bloodlust. Doing so and seeking to satisfy revenge only demeans the spirit and fails to bring any true healing for what is missing in the lives of those who have experienced loss. I strongly believe it would only cause more. Either in the form of psychotic followers seeking revenge, or in the form of civilians or military personel pushed over the edge by our own strikes of revenge, in which we destroy anything as collateral which gets in our way and care for nothing save satisfying our own vengeance and our own wants. But beyond all of this, what's the core of my believing in not killing bin Laden himself, for until now, the argument could simply be to give him a humane death, sentenced by neutral observers who have a genuine lack of emotion motivation, would be that I believe killing it itself it immoral. I thought that the killing of thousands in the World Trade Center was terrible, and so I would think the same for anyone else. I believe that human life has a precious quality about it. Sacredness, sanctity, virtue, call it whatever you want. But I believe it exists and makes life in and of itself something worthy, regardless of whether or not who possesses the life wastes it or abuses it. And for that reason, I believe it is wrong for any human to kill another for any reason, whether you be a fanatical terrorist or a just judge. And how could anyone consider anyone else's life more worthless, and then say that they are worthy of dying? Would anyone look to all who died in the Pentagon and WTC, find who the worst people were who did the most wrong in their lives, then declare those people deserved to die? I should hope not, for their death was still tragic and lamentable. All these reasons are why I gave a score of zero. Besides that, the graphics were good, but I did not understand the sound bin Laden was making. It vaguely reminded me of the song Terrance and Phillip (as kids) sung on South Park...