War and Remembrance

This movie is about World War II. It shows almost all the aspects and causes of the war. OK let's say I'm not gonna give the summary of the movie as some complained that I write too long but I'll tell you what I see in the movie instead. How's that sound? OK let's get started!

The war took place in Europe, Asia and the Pacific. The movie was filmed in 10 countries- wow.

I see lots and lots of fighting going on. The Japanese hit Pearl Habour and that made American angry as they entered the WWII.

Pug Henry plays important role in this movie. He had to fight the war as he struggled to safe his marriage with Rhoda but at the same time having love affair with Pamela. I see lots of soldiers sacrified their lives to fight for their country. It was hard fighting with the Japs and took a long time to have them withdrawn.

Now the Germany side. Adolf Hitler hated the Jews and wanted to get rid of them. His ways of killing the Jews were so cruel and inhuman. He gased them, burned them, invaded them and I was surprised by the Death Camp.

Pug's daughter in law Natalie was Jewish and she struggled hard to come back to America. But the German soldiers didn't cooperate much. She and her baby had to move from places to places hoping they'll be home safe. I think she's one of the strongest women. That's American! No matter what you face, keep your chin up and protect your child. That's American and that's Natalie.

One of the things I see about American culture in this movie is that they always help women and children. They place great importance on women and children. No matter which side you fighting, you must not harm women and children. You can even see in real life that American always help them and also give food supplies to help people survive in war time.

It must be very very hard for the Americans to fight and prove their independence as they are today.

I used to think that American movies are crap. They show crazy movies about teenagers but when it comes to talk about documentary and true story movies- they are the best!!

I believe that events in this movie and events took place in WWII that Americans had faced must be in lots of people's hearts and remembrance - unforgetable!!!

Roots

This movie is about black slavery before and during Civil Rights period. When I saw the name of it - Roots. I thought to myself "OK, what is it gonna be like? The name sounds complicated but I'll see through it" And that was it, I didn't think of anything else but finishing the movie as the second DVD finished. It was very touched to see people cry and suffer... gosh thats just it, I hate those white guys who traded the blacks. OK let me stop the bullsh.. and get started.

It was all began when Kunta Kinte turned 15 and was sent to train to become a man. He was one brave young man even he was not strong but he always wanted to be the 1st to answer the questions and the do the wrestling. Later he saw his people were captured by slave raiders and he ran for life just to escape and tell other people but the he was also captured shipped to America. He was very sad and tried to escape - didn't work. He was bought for some amount of money and was forced to work.

Now that Kunta Kinte has grown up and was given the name of "Toby" He didn't like to be called Toby, he was proud of his African name. Kunta Kinte never gave up the hope of being free again so he kept running away but was caught everytime. They had to chain him up and the last time was they cut his foot off to stop him from running. He later married and got a lovely daughter named "Kizzy" He liked the name because it's the African name and the white wouldn't know it. Kunta Kinte passed on his dream for generations to become free and the hope of going back to Africa. His daughter was seperated to another plantation and was raped. Later she gave birth to her baby boy named "Chicken George" He was one proud man.

As this very same hope passed on for generations, they never forgot to teach some African words to their children to show where they came from to be proud of oneself being African.

Now let's talk about the way the blacks were treated at that time.

The blacks were not allowed to vote or even share the same toilets with the whites. Weird but true. Children were not allowed to go to school and if they found out that the blacks were able to read and write they would be so mad and punish the blacks. Why is this so unfair? Grrrr life!!They couldn't do anything they wanted to, all powers and control were in the owners' hands. The blacks had to carry a piece of paper when traveling to show that they were not runaways and they would not be caught. They had to work from dawn till dark with no salary - not at all. Some with the good owners were lucky onces. Them blacks couldn't even think of running away because one of the lessons was "If you run away you'll be chained and wiped"

However, a lot of black slaves still thought of escaping to the north which they heard they could work and earn money there. It was far from the truth though. No matter how far they ran, they'd always get caught.

President Lincoln was trying to solve this slavery problem and this make the blacks love him so much. Later in the movie, it was said that president Lincoln was killed by a black man. People were very sad especially the blacks. They felt hopeless.

After generations and generations passed. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr fought back their freedom and was giving one of the most famous speeches in American history - "I had a dream."

Now their dream finally came true. They left the whites and got a piece of land to work on. They got the right to work and earn the money for their living. They could now vote, buy land, children go to school with the whites, etc. They were now treated as human beings.

The most interesting character for me was Kunta Kinte. He was the starting of the dream in the movie. He never gave up his hopes and kept on looking for his freedom even though the chances were rare. He was proud to be an African and hated those who called themselves African-American. He believed that his land was land of freedom and wanted his grandchildren should go one day.

Yes, this is another great movie I've seen so far. I like the fact that this movie was based on the true story and that it took Alex Harley (the 7th generation of Kunta Kinte family) 12 years to do the research and complete the navel - Roots.

You see people. From this movie you must not discriminate anyone just because of their color of skin. I believe that if only they could choose to be born they would wished for something better than this. All humas are equal and have to rights to think and express feelings. And I believe that if only god knew that there wouldn't be any discrimination he would create everyone either white or black. But that's life! Guys you really should have seen this movie. It explains clearly about how the blacks were treated and you could feel how they felt and suffered. Big time!!!