Thursday, September 14, 2017

So I just finished watching The Promise, a movie that chronicles the Armenian genocide in Turkey in World War I. Cried buckets. It made think of what the Rohingyas are probably going through right now -- and it enrages me so much.


Why is it that at any point of time in the history of humanity, some groups of people are always trying to kill off some other groups of people? What is wrong with humans, seriously! Why does anyone think it is okay to kill off masses of innocent lives? It's unbelievable and completely baffling to me, and therefore entirely enraging.

Every human being is a human being. Can we all, for goodness sake, for God's sake, please just look at each other as human beings? Even in YouTube comments, you see people then doing the same stupid racist things that result in the dehumanizing that makes genocide possible in the first place, you know? People insulting Turks entirely or the Japanese entirely. Just stop hating people for no other reason than them belonging to some arbitrary group!


There's this other amazing, amazing movie:


which is awesome in an all-round way, really: captured all the horrors of war,
and yet managed to have beautiful, light-hearted moments,
as well as dialogue and action scenes full of oomph 
(I don't know how else to describe them, haha).
Not to mention it stars Song Joong Ki (who took forever to appear on-screen),
who can do no wrong at the moment -- 
at the peak of his career and marrying arguably Korea's most beautiful woman.

I am digressing -- these are great stories,
not entirely novel, sure;
but that apparently humanity doesn't appear to ever learn from...
😢

I need to go watch something happy now.

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