I just finished watching Paradise Now, and again wow! This movie was very powerful, I almost cried haha. The movie was well done, and I think it would be extremely easy to show for a large group of students. Paradise Now would be an amazing way to actually get to the heart of the issue.
Something that really fascinated me was the preparation the two main characters went through before the initial mission. They were to be cleanshaven, they both got haircuts, dressed in nice suits, and prayed. I thought it was interesting on why they were to be so clean, so polished. My thought process led me to believe that because they viewed the mission as something to be honored, and important, they had to be clean just like when they pray. I remember from our trip to the Mosque that it is extremely important to be clean before you worship. Maybe that is the religious connection?
However, I have to note that I completely disagree with Martyr missions. Suicide is a horrible thing - wether the victim commited suicide out of personal issues, or something like this. I think any suicide mission is a horrible way to try to bring change into a country - killing yourself to kill other people, all to hopefully bring a positive change to the bombers own people, and death and destruction to the other side. Suicide Missions are like terrorism 101, it doesnt matter how 'honorable' you think it is! Suicide, and suicide missions are completely hypocritical to any religion! First of all, your killing yourself, which is a sin if I ever heard one, and killing other people, ditto.
I think Paradise Now would be good to show to older students, ones that could handle the serious subject matter of suicide bombings. I really enjoyed the film, I felt like the story was really easy to get hooked on, I was glued to the screen the entire time!
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I did research on the idea of being a Martyr and what I understood is that being a martyr means you are going to fight in a war even though you know you are going to die and that makes you a hero. What these suicide bombers are doing doesn't really seem like Martyrdom to me because they are killing themselves they are not being killed. And typically it is being killed that makes you a hero, not blowing yourself up along with innocent people who have families and jobs and children!
ReplyDeleteThe film is very good its a subject that not many people are aware of. A lot of people dont know the process which takes to actually be a suicide bomber and this film does a great job to enlighten the viewer
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