Useless Road

Hillard 2022-01-23 08:06:16

One day I concentrated on organizing and watching a movie. After watching this movie, I had some thoughts.

As a bystander of the war in Afghanistan, what happened in Afghanistan is just the material and background for the blockbuster of the war for us. Whether it is an American, a Canadian or a Western country in the movie, it has no effect on our viewing experience or perspective. First of all, I think this is not a main theme movie. In the end, the old Afghan warlord and the young male protagonist completed a rebellion only because of personal feelings and loyalty, not because of road or national honor. This is a road that no normal person cares about. The so-called construction ceremony is just a cover for the military to attract the two major forces to fight. No one cares about Afghan farmers or landlords. They all have their own interests to rectify. Canadians want to transport tanks by road and terrorists stop it. That's it. As for everything else that happens, it is meaningless. It's all personal feelings, loyalty, and things other than war.

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Hyena Road quotes

  • Travis: Name me one thing I've ever been wrong about!

    Ryan: ...thinks for a moment... My sister?

    Travis: ...pause... Yeah, that was bad...

  • Pete: Alexander the Great marched into this graveyard about 2,500 years ago. Easy to march in, hard to march out. His words. He and his mother wrote to each other all the time. One day, he got a letter from her saying: "What the hell? You conquered most of the known world in a day and a half, what are you doing bogged down in Afghanistan?" He grabbed a bag and shoveled it full of dirt and had it sent back to Greece with a message to his mother: "Take this dirt and dump it around the palace, see what happens."

    Pete: So Alexander's mother spread the dirt all around the palace. Later that night, a couple of attendants showed up to make sure she was alright. One says: "Go ahead, after you." And the other says: "No, after you." And the first one says: "No, I insist." And the second one says: "Don't you tell me what to do." They pull their swords and go at it till they kill each other. Alexander's mother watched all this and wrote a note to him saying: "Okay, okay, now I get it." And he wrote back saying: "Even the dirt is hostile." In Afghanistan, dogs fight dogs, birds fight birds, men kill men.

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