i watched amistad (1997, steven spielberg) on netflix instant last night. during the scene where people are being tied to rocks and dumped in the sea just like garbage to be disposed of, my brain went into shock. i was literally hysterical. shaking, crying and pulling my hair - just like the most cliche picture of a person going insane. ive never experienced anything like that. ive never seen a more horror inducing and traumatizing scene in my life, i dont think. and i was just watching a movie. fully aware that i was watching actors playing a scene. and yet i knew that they were replaying something that back then was a common occurrence - the handling of humans as cargo, as a property, down to its most horrifying consequence - the right to dispose of it anytime it was necessary. so if watching a reconstruction of that practice in a movie had such a devastating effect on me - what would it do to the people who actually were witnesses to that as it really occurred? what would it do to humans who were forced to obey those orders? i cant even begin to imagine ... how many people went literally instantly insane while watching psychopaths in action? how many humans are going insane today after witnessing their children and family being torn to pieces by US drones unleashed onto wedding parties in afghanistan, yemen or pakistan? how many soldiers in israel are being irreversibly psychologically damaged by following psychopathic orders to kill palestinian children? how many homeless veterans in the US are mentally sick because they followed the orders of psychopaths?
Posted on: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 22:57:20 +0000
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