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I used to exclude commercial movies from my definition of art. However, the movie ” Kingdom” totally changed my view on commercial movies. “Kingdom” is a story based on some real personal experiences. It mainly depicts how a group of four Americans eradicated the terrorists in Saudi Arab. If some people consider this is a political propaganda, then it must be the best propaganda I’ve ever seen. It depicts the political idea with out political dreadfulness. The vivid pictures of those victims’ eyes with fear, their tears… totally touched me. The end especially impressed me. The terrorist leader told his granddaughter before he got killed by the American police: ” We’ll kill all of them one day.” And at the beginning of the movie, the American police officer told his dead fellow’s wife: ” We’ll kill all of them.” The little girls’ eyes with hatred, and the American police officer’s eyes with hatred, I seem could never forget. The movie touches terrorism issue, yet it far goes beyond that issue. Is war and revenge really the solutions for terrorism? How will it affect the next generation. The first time, when thinking of the terrorists, I had a feeling beyond indignation. Compare to those popular fantasy American movies, I think that movie really touches the reality, and that is what I think the essence of art: no matter it’s expressed in an abstract way, or a concrete way, it should make people think, it should have life, instead of those pointless fantasies.
October 18th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Yeah, I find that a lot of the movies these days are pointless. Movies today are what they’re categorized as- entertainment and not much more.
October 19th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
From your review, Lu, I think I might give this movie a try.
It’s good to look at both sides of the story. Most people probably won’t consider terrorists victims. Sad how the hate is only being passed down from one generation to the next.