transcendent and unsurpassed

Irving 2022-03-21 09:02:52

I really don't understand why the heroine has to step on an inexplicable landmine in the end, creating an unforgettable, tragic and romantic separation. This landmine would be better even if the lovers stepped on it when they rushed to the disaster area with relief supplies! It happened to step on it when fleeing the disaster area for love.
I have always felt that love in the movie has a deeper meaning than ordinary life, just like the unfortunate death of an illness in order to save the plague in "The Veil", and the death of one's life before another in "Titanic". The lover in "Beyond the Boundary" died unjustly, neither to save the refugees, nor to prolong the life of the lover. Why waste film for such a story, go to the emotional gold issue of the morning paper!

Aside from the above attacks and ridicules, this film truly reproduces the misfortune brought by war and disease to human beings, and reproduces the real life of refugees in war-torn areas in Africa and Asia. It is even commendable that the filming of "Golden Eye", The director of "Vertical Limits", with a BMW-driving hero and a dual-gun heroine, digs into the darkness inside some titular international rescue organizations. Some people may not usually watch Discovery, Phoenix Information or news broadcasts, or even "Explore Discovery", but they happened to watch this film for the combination of handsome men and women, and they suddenly woke up to become a humanitarian warrior. If there is such a thing people, that's what this movie is about.

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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...