I Am Bismark

I was obviously not happy when I wrote this and it was also 2:30 AM, so read accordingly. But I can’t see anything I necessarily disagree with so I will leave it as is.

I’m lying here in bed feeling empty, depressed, and angry. This was not an easy movie to watch. But I think everyone should. Some might say “Why would I want to watch a movie that makes me feel that way? I will stick to Disney.” And if you are one of those people, you more than anyone else needs to watch this movie.

Why? It’s real. It’s the reality of what is happening right at the very moment you are reading this. How can we ever hope to stop it if we always hide ourselves away and pretend like all is well in the world?

War is horrible. It destroys humans. Mentally and physically, right at this very moment humans are being destroyed by a war funded by my country. It’s disgusting.

This movie is about the psychological destruction of humans caused by war. Think of one of the people you love most: spouse, sibling, child. Now realize there is someone just like you whose person they love has had their humanity stripped from them by war.

The scene that got me the most was toward the end as he is standing in the cereal aisle of the grocery store. We talk about honoring the veterans for preserving our freedom quite a bit in this country. This scene just made me think not only of the absolute evil of the things veterans have had to endure, but of the desicable shallowness of the things we use our freedom for. Filling our bodies with fake food while we consume fake sex and violence for entertainment. Another human destroyed so we can have our premade meals and our porn.

Well this has been a rant instead of a review. I guess that’s shows how the movie made me feel.

I recommend this movie, not for entertainment but as a reminder of why we are all responsible for denouncing war and proclaiming peace.