I envy the children in the West. Their parents always spare no effort to extend the time they believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy; but I also remember that when I was a child, I was obsessed with the fairy tale "The Five Brothers of the Liu Family" recorded by my mother, and the voice of the uncle of the drama actor. Emotionally imitated the dialogue between the bad government and the brave brothers. I still remember "The Little Match Girl", "Daughter of the Sea" and "The Happy Prince". I listened to those stories over and over again, even though I didn't really understand when I grew up, their backgrounds turned out to be overwhelming. Contained black sadness.
"Killing Sheep with Eyes" is also a fairy tale.
American journalist Ewan McGregor, a sad man whose marriage failed, came to Kuwait in despair, trying to sneak into Iraq and make earth-shattering battlefield news reports to win back his ex-wife's heart. In Kuwait, Bob met George Clooney, a private builder, who agreed to take him across the border. This Lynn used to be a special force of the US Army's "spiritual force", specially trained to find enemy targets and control the opponent's thinking through mental will superpowers, in order to turn fighting into jade. Bob was skeptical of Lynn’s "Jedi Warrior Superpowers". The two faced various difficulties such as car breakdowns, armed hijacking, gas station rushing, and lost in the desert, staged comedy jokes one after another, while Lynn was interspersed with the Vietnam War veteran hippie Bill. (Jess Bridges)'s special training method seeks to harmoniously coexist with nature and enhance the memory of spiritual ability is even more ridiculous.
For Lynn, the turning point in his military career was the addition of another soldier with "Jedi superpowers", Larry Hopper (Kevin Spacey). The arrival of Larry turned the training of the "spiritual force" from the idea-oriented to the result to defeat everything, and Lynn, who successfully demonstrated that the goat was staring at the goat and stopped his heart with his mind, finally turned from a peace messenger to a killing tool. The frustrated Lynn retired and retired, but the war continued, from the Desert Storm to the Iraq War, and then to the anti-terrorism in Afghanistan. The peaceful concept of "spiritual forces" in harmony and symbiosis had long since become prosperous and wiped out.
To some extent, Hippie Bill and Private Lynn are lunatics. Bill and a group of old hippies were naked in a hot bath for spiritual enlightenment; while Lynn said that he wanted to subdue the enemy, while punching and kicking the enemy to the ground during the robbery, he said, "Look, I didn't have much trouble. Move." But they are by no means the first paranoia in history. From Don Quixote in Spain to Ignatius in the United States, from Faust in Germany to Handi in France. Form a political party, trade with the devil, and wander for love. Of course they are ridiculous, or even completely unreasonable; they are even more pathetic, from the beginning you know they will be suppressed, excluded, and ridiculed; but they are also lovely. They believe in miracles that we think are impossible and do us A feat that no one dared to do, chasing the ideal that we have no courage and faith to pursue.
In "Killing the Sheep with Eyes", two people tried to walk through the wall twice. Did they succeed? Is there a "jedi superpower" in this world, is there a weapon of "killing sheep with eyes", is there a miracle, peace, and the ultimate love between people that transcends all disputes and violence?
In other words, do you believe in fairy tales? Do you remember your original ideal?
Each of us has read fairy tales. Maybe fairy tales are used to break, beliefs are used to destroy; but when I know that there are always a few idealistic lunatics in this world, I always feel that the end of this cold and desperate world is not so lonely, and we are finally here. There is warmth and hope.
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