Movies Day

If the movies imitate life, then we must really live colorful lives.

The week-end was spent indoors after 830 am.  Yes, at this early part of the day it must have been baking around 40degC temperatures. After my  pre-dawn run I took with my wife, it was pretty much watching movies at home.

My pirate friends from MCS were so excited when they sold me a three-part movie - “The Pacific”.  I asked Mir, my reliable contact, if the copies were already High-Def. He told me…”Allah be praised, all my new products are HD” (Hidden Down the cabinet). With that, I gladly bought the copies.

The tone of war was captured in a way that is tries to make sense of brotherhood, owning up to responsibilities, and even love amidst the carnage in a tiny pacific island known as Guadalcanal.

The reasons why nations go to war is only clear to the men who plan them. To the foot soldier on the battlefield, it is all about making it through another day, hopefully with all your body-parts intact.

If the war on the pacific was anchored on the premise that Japan had to subjugate all the Asian neighbors for oil, then we did not learn anything from history. This is exactly the same line of reasoning of the Iraqis when they invaded Kuwait, in what is known as the “Gulf War of 1990 “. 

The Japanese, in 1939, was paranoid that its industrialization will be halted if their oil supplies were cut, thus the need to annex its Asian neighbors for supply. 

The Iraqis in 1989, were also paranoid that their oil-fields will not be enough to continue their war-machine with Iran. This was their justification in annexing the nation-state of Kuwait which was according to them, was part of the former kingdom of Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq).

 
See how plain greed and  paranoia can throw the whole world into chaos? The parallelism of the two wars, almost 50 years apart teaches us that we have not learned anything. The world’s natural resources, especially fossil fuel / oil is finite, and will be depleted.  It is up to our great leaders to think of alternative sources of energy production to alleviate our dependence on fuel. 

What will be the cause of the next war after all the oil is gone? I believe it will be the supply of drinking water of the world. That’s not pretty far fetched considering the 40deg C that we are continuously experiencing today. 

Anyways, after all the blood and guts thrown at the big-screen from watching 3 hours of “The Pacific” the director focuses on one resource of man that will never be depleted - his will to survive.