Beyond Borders

Garrett 2022-03-20 09:02:28

Only now did I realize that I watched a lot of movies in dormitory 342 in the second semester of my senior year.
Just watched the movie today (March 17, 2006) starring Angelina Jolie and Martin Campbell. In fact, I have never liked Angelia Jolie very much. I don't like her too thick lips and extramarital affairs with Bradley Pitt. But when I watched this movie, my heart still clenched tightly, not for their love, but for the helpless but tenaciously surviving fellows of ours, as well as those volunteers who were equally helpless and strong. There is also the director's arrangement, which is a monotonous gray and black dress in elegant England, and a crisp white or straight black in those areas.
Knowing that it is impossible for them to give without scruples, abandon so many things, and truly stay out of it, just for the existence of life. But I really want to be able to live like that, and I think it's very valuable. Sometimes I feel like I am a very idealized person, like going to teach. I signed up without telling my parents, and waited until everything was settled before calling them to tell them. Knowing that they do not understand or agree, but the raw rice is cooked, they can only accept it. Because I really want to go, I feel very beautiful and pure, although what is happening now makes everything less perfect than I originally imagined, I still look forward to my Yunnan.
At the end of the credits the
film is dedicated to al relief workersl and the millions of people who are victims of war and persecution. They still inspire us all with their courage and will to survive.

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Beyond Borders quotes

  • Nick Callahan: Are you wearing perfume... in the fucking desert?

  • Sarah Jordan: Why do you never say my name?

    Nick Callahan: Sorry?

    Sarah Jordan: You never say my name. Why?

    Nick Callahan: pauses - What's the first thing you do when you get a cold?

    Sarah Jordan: What?

    Nick Callahan: What's the first thing you do when you get a cold?

    Sarah Jordan: Uh... chicken soup, aspirin, scotch...

    Nick Callahan: You never just have the cold?

    Sarah Jordan: I don't know what...

    Nick Callahan: interrupts - Taken nothing. Just have the cold?

    Sarah Jordan: No

    Nick Callahan: No, and that's us, right? We drown it. Kill it. Numb it, anything not to feel. You know, when I was a doctor in London, no one ever said 'medahani'. They don't thank you like they thank you here. Cos here they feel everything, straight from God. There's no drugs, no painkillers. It's the weirdest, purest thing - suffering. And when you've seen that kind of courage in a li... - pauses, tears well up -... in a child... How could you ever want to do anything but just hold him in your arms? You remember that boy in London, JoJo?

    Sarah Jordan: Yes of course

    Nick Callahan: He was my first save, 10 years old. So thin he could barely stand. But he still found the strength the bury the rest of his family. We have no idea what courage is... He used to write me little notes. He helped me in the clinic. He was good. He was sweet, he was good. He wanted to be like me, I liked that. I mean, it was silly and childish, but it made me feel good about myself. So I took him with me to London, you know, my talisman, my courageous Africa... - pauses - How could I be so bloody stupid? How could I be so totally selfish? The point is... he was my friend. He had a name. So now I HAVE to remember him. If everybody I lose has a name...