Behind Enemy Lines

December 16, 2001 in Uncategorized by lemworld | 2 comments

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As part of my birthday celebration, my girlfriend took me to see Behind Enemy Lines this afternoon as Crossgates Mall. Besides the action-packed (hokey) ending, it was a pretty decent movie. The camera work was really wobbly, kinda like Three Kings. It made the movie kind of dizzying (a nice effect) but hard to watch.

It reminded me of a genocide project I did junior year in high school (you can still see it at http://www.lemworld.com/genocide). There is a scene in the movie where Burnett (the downed pilot) falls into an open grave filled with dozens of murdered Muslims. The entire situation drew me back to the countless photos and statements of the people slaughtered in Nazi concentration camps during WWII.

I wish the movie had focused a bit more on why there was a war in Yugoslavia. They did make an effort to discuss the political motivations (which I will admit was a big part), but they didn’t discuss the genocide in much detail. I am not suggesting that they make another Schindler’s List here or anything, but they could have placed a bit more emphasis on why the information the pilot had (photos of the graves) was important to ending the war.

The next movie I would really like to see is Blackhawk Down. That and Harry Potter… because if I don’t see that movie, it would be like missing American Beauty. Everyone would think that I spent the last several months in a box!

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    anonymous on December 16, 2001 at 11:35 pm

    I wonder what old friends would think if you haven’t e-mailed them in months. Especially those who were really close to you. Oh well, life will go on and you will have different friends. But make sure you always remember the ones that kept you happy!!!!!

  2. lem’s avatar

    lem on December 17, 2001 at 1:34 am

    One of the purposes of this is to keep my friends involved in my life. You all are very important to me, but at the same time I have a busy life here in college. That’s not to say you have become any less important to me, but that e-mailing 30 people is very difficult to keep up with on top of 18 credit hours of classes!!

    By the way, how often do you keep up on my website? All the details on the past 4 months of college are there!

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