The three scenes were interrelated yet worlds apart. I felt scared for the young men in Afghanistan, angry with the Senator, empathetic for the reporter, proud of the teacher and frustrated with the college student. All of these people had their own agenda. They were all doing what they thought was best.
The reporter, the teacher and the soldiers actually thought about history and questioned it.
They tried to use it to understand where they were now and how best to proceed.
The cynical college student and the Senator were more in the same place; being self-centered and shallow.
The college student was too young to be so cynical and hopeless. He was raised affluently and had a bad attitude. Not caring about his own future or that of our society is irresponsible. Hopefully, the teacher got through to him by challenging him to care again.
While watching the injured soldier fight the enemy I remember thinking :Please let them live and get back home. These intelligent young people have so much potential and are the future of our county. Their deaths do matter, but what they could have offered our society matters more. It was sad to think of the loss of two people who had such strong convictions.
Do we really "win" a war?
The end of the movie leaves us wondering what decisions the reporter and the college student made. Since I am an optimistic person, I choose to believe that the reporter divulged the Senators propaganda and that the college student grew up to be a responsible individual.
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