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The Kingdom Movie PosterThe world has changed. Ever since 9/11 the world has become a different place and we all know what the western world think but what about the people who are raging the war? The thing I liked about this movie was that this tries to answer that question.

Too often (especially Americans) its all about “kill the terrorists” and from the ‘Terrorists’ point of view its “kill the infidels (Americans)“. As you can see this does not get us anywhere at all.

Please note that this is not a post from a religious POV

In recent movies like this and the latest Bourne movie hand held camera action scenes are all the rage however I have to wonder just how many people have been motion sick from all the swaying? I think hand held action scenes are cool but they can be very much over used, the Bourne movie was over used but The Kingdom was just right imo.

The last scene was the most powerful in my opinion which illustrates that while we are different we are not really that much different.

When Jennifer Gardiners friend was killed the leader (Jamie Fox) leant over and whispered something to her. At the end the leader of the killings while mortally wounded and dieing also whispers something to his granddaughter. What did the two whisper?

The same exact sentence “I promise you, we will kill every last one of them“. If we all think this from both sides what is the outcome?

I was gently surprised to see some Muslims in the same movie theater and hopefully no more miss education will cause people to hate and kill. I do think it will take more than movies to do this but this can be the start.

Kingdom Movie Trailer

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6 comments so far

fred
 1 

can’t comment on the film as I haven’t seen it yet - just wanted to say it’s a brilliant idea adding the trailer to the page.

December 31st, 2007 at 9:18 pm
 2 

Thanks Fred for your comments about the idea of adding the trailer to the article. I think it does help, I will continue to use the idea.

January 1st, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Tim
 3 

Liked the movie - I agree. Too often do we feel that all the middle eastern people around us are the ‘next terrorist’. It is the ’small minority’ - the extremists that scare the ‘large majority’ of us. It is a pity tham man cannot solve his own problems. Many people may say thay religion is the cause of all these wars - but peace will rule the earth one day - But not by man’s doing.

April 8th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
 4 

@Tim - you are right that it is man and not religion that causes these conflicts. It is one of peoples main problems and that is when we have a belief everyone must know (which on its own is not wrong) but how we ‘force’ people to know our beliefs is were we go wrong as humans…

btw you may find WotUThink interesting as it lists and allows discussion and previewing of all popular culture (movies, dvds, music etc)

April 9th, 2008 at 9:15 am
 5 

I only saw the beginning of the movie so far, but I have it. It really hit deep, the images at the beginning were very disturbing. I think after reading this, it’s definitely worth a watch.

Joe

Joe’s last blog post..Movies This Weekend! 8/1/08

August 3rd, 2008 at 1:25 pm
 6 

Yes I would recommend watching it Joe

August 12th, 2008 at 10:42 am

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