Today I watched the picture entitled "Rescue Dawn". I have noticed that Astro had played this several times but was reluctant to watch it thinking it to be violent.
Rescue Dawn is a movie about a US air force personnel whose plane got shot down by the Vietcong and was held as a prisoner. The story enfolds on how he plotted and managed to escape his tormentors. If you were like myself, who is careful not to view movies which are sad or about human abuse, you would think that it would be filled with torture stories, blood and pain. However the movie was not at all violent as I was deigned to think all these years. Instead the movie if you would allow me - was about one man's believe that he can escape the hell hole that he was. This prisoner not only brought up the spirits of his fellow inmates up by getting them to believe that they can and will be free, but also to picture their freedom and their situation to be something as the ordinary such as eating scrumptious food during the so called lunch time.
In short, the movie blew me away. I do not know about you but I rather liked the movie. To me it was all about human spirit and what you believe in. If you believed that you are free no mater what the circumstances you are in, you will be free. I like movies like this as it empowers one to think that they are able to do just about anything if their mind tells them to. I am glad that I have cast aside my ill-thoughts and presumption that this would be a violent movie and watched it.
I am happy to change my so called presumptuous mind. I have always liked to be open minded - it is good that I am starting to change. Change however small it is, makes life more fun.
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