The 9 minute segment of the film was based on Australia's battle with Japan on New Guinea. The short film accurately explains and vividly shows the supply dropped by planes, the artillery used, the military in the field, and the bushmen in New Guinea. I enjoyed how the narration tells about war - in the words "Man versus Man". The statement is quite bold, precise, and true. The views of war scenes are giving me a historical enlightenment yet at the same time I feel unconscious and lying in unknown ditches.
Throughout my media history from television shows and films, I cannot comprehend and put in the reality of these scenes. Although I'm aware of our histories within our civilizations, I almost put a layer of "movie sets" onto what has happen in the past. Does the view equate that I'm a futuristic idealist or an actor within my own domain and leaving out erroneous parts? Can I be whole in matters of what has been conquered or protected in the past? I believe that I will learn in a partial ordeal. I will not know the effects of war unless I have all my senses in the moment. I ask myself, "Should I place myself in a war to know war?" I say, "Yes." Experience is the key for existence.
I appreciate the narrator/filmmaker was an actual character or a real person in action. The beauty of the film was his own persona and non-fiction storytelling through the lens and recordings. Although he greatly shown the battle, there is a void, well, maybe, a filler which a viewer grasp the events of the war. Yet at the same time, one cannot smell, touch, or side against the vegetation, the sweat, blood, mud, screams, commands, triggers, gunpowder, and the hurt of the boots. One can describe scene by scene; but one cannot duplicate the instantaneous moment. One must think; in order to achieve what is on film; one must go into the world for himself or herself. The question is "Will I experience war or merely sit and watch what war was and is now?" My answer is: "I cannot have peace if I never been to war." Overall, the film implanted an active thought with an action.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Moscow Strikes Back
I was impressed on the footage about the Soviet Union on defending their country. As I go through these films, I have sympathy on nations affected by wars whether for or against the U.S. It defeats the bias brought upon the media.
The film begins the artistic impressions of a parade from kinetic body movements of a group, the dances and objects of culture (Mongolian), and the sturdy, strong uniformed march of the athletes, and the beauty of the floats. All were taken place at Red Square in Moscow. Then the scene changed.
The Soviet Union had to defend their country against the invasions of Germany. Red Square was filled with marching Red Army led by a marshal. Then the army was filmed on the field. The battlefields took place in forests, on snowy land, and small villages. Then eventually, the filming took place back in Moscow.
I was amazed about the determination and complete strength of the Russians. I truly admired the direction and gravity that the nation gave into their defense and reclaiming their territory. Yet they had a sentimental side. I really sympathize with them when they showed composer Tchaikovsky and writer Leo Tolsoy homes were ransacked by the German army. The library and architectural gems were bombed. Once pieces of cultural history are destroyed, one lingers in a lost translation of a story.
I admire the strategies taken upon military training. The Red Army wore camouflage white uniforms to blend with the snowy environment. The army transported themselves across the lands on skis. The visual sightings of thousands of men on skis enraptured me.
As I viewed about a hour of this film's timing, I still wonder about the people and the completely destroyed villages, towns, and cities. I reflect those images to what would happen if the U.S. was attacked. We would become refugees. Where would we flee? How would we hide from the attacking enemy? Numerous places including the people could not escape yet executed by the invading enemy. How would I walk across the California desert by no means of water, food, or protection? It is a pondering thought.
I'm really enjoying this documentary journey. The ratings of this film is the top on my list. The clear, precise, and well-documented footage of "Moscow Strikes Back" really gives a viewer a real glimpse to what happen and as he or she was presently there. My understanding of other nations is widening my scope of knowing the past to know the present. I will take that any day versus staying in the past and having pre-judgments and unreasonable, inconclusive bias.
The film begins the artistic impressions of a parade from kinetic body movements of a group, the dances and objects of culture (Mongolian), and the sturdy, strong uniformed march of the athletes, and the beauty of the floats. All were taken place at Red Square in Moscow. Then the scene changed.
The Soviet Union had to defend their country against the invasions of Germany. Red Square was filled with marching Red Army led by a marshal. Then the army was filmed on the field. The battlefields took place in forests, on snowy land, and small villages. Then eventually, the filming took place back in Moscow.
I was amazed about the determination and complete strength of the Russians. I truly admired the direction and gravity that the nation gave into their defense and reclaiming their territory. Yet they had a sentimental side. I really sympathize with them when they showed composer Tchaikovsky and writer Leo Tolsoy homes were ransacked by the German army. The library and architectural gems were bombed. Once pieces of cultural history are destroyed, one lingers in a lost translation of a story.
I admire the strategies taken upon military training. The Red Army wore camouflage white uniforms to blend with the snowy environment. The army transported themselves across the lands on skis. The visual sightings of thousands of men on skis enraptured me.
As I viewed about a hour of this film's timing, I still wonder about the people and the completely destroyed villages, towns, and cities. I reflect those images to what would happen if the U.S. was attacked. We would become refugees. Where would we flee? How would we hide from the attacking enemy? Numerous places including the people could not escape yet executed by the invading enemy. How would I walk across the California desert by no means of water, food, or protection? It is a pondering thought.
I'm really enjoying this documentary journey. The ratings of this film is the top on my list. The clear, precise, and well-documented footage of "Moscow Strikes Back" really gives a viewer a real glimpse to what happen and as he or she was presently there. My understanding of other nations is widening my scope of knowing the past to know the present. I will take that any day versus staying in the past and having pre-judgments and unreasonable, inconclusive bias.
Monday, October 10, 2011
The Battle of Midway: Global War
The footage takes the viewer through the battlefields of an island in the Pacific Ocean and Italy during the U.S victories of World War II. I was amazed by the artillery and strategies taken upon the U.S. Navy and Army which the soldiers had to endure the struggles and constant endurance of fighting the war. While watching the film, I'm enthralled about the constant manpower of technology to destroy the enemy. I was wondering about the manufacturing of weapons, transporting the heavy load to trucks, the transit on boats, and the load to the battlefields on both sides.
The main point of the film is to commemorate the U.S. victory of the war. It was expressed through the music and speeches made by the narration. Behind the music, I was concerned by the destroyed historic buildings, the ecological systems of the islands from palm trees, ocean organisms to the birds, suffering people, the bodies, the burning sites, and damages to land. Although I believe that war must exist and be fought for the right of freedom, I'm concerned about the after effects. Battles exist due to power and ego of man and his kingdom. The conquest of powering over property and people becomes embedded in someone's mind. In the world itself, this thinking exists on all scales whether on business, family, state, friendship, and all varieties. If you think deeply, we ourselves would gain over control of another i.e. we wish to have $1000 in the next month. In our own case, we figure how to gain this increase. We strategically think how to obtain by many points. Place funds on market and have control in shares within a company's stakeholders and weigh your scale of control. Then you may increase $100. Then take 50% and if the value increase, one will gain $200-$350. The most income, you place more money into the market fund. You are controlling the IPO by gaining power.
Second, you coerce a family member or colleague to give you a loan or gift. You are placing a lien on their income and gained control over them.
Third, you provide services for others by providing transportation or property improvements. They give $200 for first initial payments. As the more you work on their lives, the more you gain.
With the three examples, the more you gain the property of another. The more you are winning battle of overtaking another property whether to obtain goods of another country. This is the first part of gaining power. In order to stay in power, one must protect as well.
As for market, one must place the gained money into a CD fund or stable slow growing account. The taxes are the power to take away your power.
Second, the money gained by a family member's property is depleted by the needs of your household. Although you may gained the money, one must save in order to protect. At the same time, there is a need for money that takes away the savings.
The third example is when you gained income of providing services to others. In your own domain, a part of your own life must be maintained. In life, something breaks or gains age where maintenance and/or fixing must be done.
Bottom line, if you gain power, there is something that takes away your power. As for war, if one takes, one must protect. The one must battle. The answer whether we have peace in our lives as a certain point. I think that the acceptance of both power gained and lost is true peace. We cannot ignore the one or the other. We need both in order to have one exist. In the film, I admire the weaponry created for war. In order to have peace in an country, one must battle to have a balance.
I enjoyed viewing the history, the influences of the world leaders, and seeing the gathering of leaders in Cairo, Egypt. The fight among the soldiers with the enemy is the commemoration for celebrating freedom due to the fact about the ongoing fight for protection of the U.S. Power exists regardless whether for one's gains or losses. Man rules over his ego for battle or peace. Harm will always happen but at the same time - there is an abundant amount of healing for the world to rely on. Although there is never 100% healing, at least, we can thrive to reach almost to that level. Other words to describe such matters are hope, rebuilding, and a new future with power.
The main point of the film is to commemorate the U.S. victory of the war. It was expressed through the music and speeches made by the narration. Behind the music, I was concerned by the destroyed historic buildings, the ecological systems of the islands from palm trees, ocean organisms to the birds, suffering people, the bodies, the burning sites, and damages to land. Although I believe that war must exist and be fought for the right of freedom, I'm concerned about the after effects. Battles exist due to power and ego of man and his kingdom. The conquest of powering over property and people becomes embedded in someone's mind. In the world itself, this thinking exists on all scales whether on business, family, state, friendship, and all varieties. If you think deeply, we ourselves would gain over control of another i.e. we wish to have $1000 in the next month. In our own case, we figure how to gain this increase. We strategically think how to obtain by many points. Place funds on market and have control in shares within a company's stakeholders and weigh your scale of control. Then you may increase $100. Then take 50% and if the value increase, one will gain $200-$350. The most income, you place more money into the market fund. You are controlling the IPO by gaining power.
Second, you coerce a family member or colleague to give you a loan or gift. You are placing a lien on their income and gained control over them.
Third, you provide services for others by providing transportation or property improvements. They give $200 for first initial payments. As the more you work on their lives, the more you gain.
With the three examples, the more you gain the property of another. The more you are winning battle of overtaking another property whether to obtain goods of another country. This is the first part of gaining power. In order to stay in power, one must protect as well.
As for market, one must place the gained money into a CD fund or stable slow growing account. The taxes are the power to take away your power.
Second, the money gained by a family member's property is depleted by the needs of your household. Although you may gained the money, one must save in order to protect. At the same time, there is a need for money that takes away the savings.
The third example is when you gained income of providing services to others. In your own domain, a part of your own life must be maintained. In life, something breaks or gains age where maintenance and/or fixing must be done.
Bottom line, if you gain power, there is something that takes away your power. As for war, if one takes, one must protect. The one must battle. The answer whether we have peace in our lives as a certain point. I think that the acceptance of both power gained and lost is true peace. We cannot ignore the one or the other. We need both in order to have one exist. In the film, I admire the weaponry created for war. In order to have peace in an country, one must battle to have a balance.
I enjoyed viewing the history, the influences of the world leaders, and seeing the gathering of leaders in Cairo, Egypt. The fight among the soldiers with the enemy is the commemoration for celebrating freedom due to the fact about the ongoing fight for protection of the U.S. Power exists regardless whether for one's gains or losses. Man rules over his ego for battle or peace. Harm will always happen but at the same time - there is an abundant amount of healing for the world to rely on. Although there is never 100% healing, at least, we can thrive to reach almost to that level. Other words to describe such matters are hope, rebuilding, and a new future with power.
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