machine gun missionary

Else 2022-03-23 09:02:28

I think my knowledge of history is fairly complete, but in recent years, I really don't know that South Sudan has become independent. In my memory, Sudan was occupied by the British in the 19th century (see "Four Feathers" for the theme), or it was still a middle school Africa's largest and unowned land in history textbooks.

I would like to pay tribute to Sam Kidders, although he cannot be called a qualified missionary, he did not know at first how to preach and speak in church to obtain donations for children; but he did it, and it was all put into practice. The act of saving the child is also saving his own destroyed boyhood; Sam is certainly not as heroic as the actor Butler, but he does have the courage to build a wire fence to face the LRA. When I saw the swing frame, seesaw and soccer ball he brought to the children, the joy on the children's faces, all the injustice and suffering seemed to have dissipated in an instant, the orphanage in the abject land was covered with warm Light of God.

The film's final subtitle is shocking, heart-wrenching and admirable:

"-------- Kony and his LRA continue their reign of terror in northern Ganda and South Sudan, with the military reckoning that Kony and rebels massacred more than 400,000 people, kidnapped more than 40,000 children. These children were abused, trafficked.. forced to participate in the killing rituals of rebel commanders.
To this day, Sam is fighting for the children of South Sudan and Northern Uganda, and Sam and Li Ni is still together, Li Ni runs a Jewish church in Pennsylvania.-------"

Thank you for having such a biographical subject matter and restoring these histories. If certain plots in this type of film are processed, then, Please pay attention to those subtitles and pictures at the end, I need to calm down and sort out slowly, it will restore a lot of real life.

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  • Preston 2022-03-25 09:01:12

    The transformation of the male lead is not at all convincing, and the film is reduced to a pale preaching religious film. Actually, I came to see the movie title, hehe

  • Monroe 2022-04-21 09:02:50

    In any case, I didn't expect this to be a warm work. The subject matter is good and the perspective is good, but the director's shooting is too loose and lengthy, and people can't put their emotions into it. Although it is adapted from a real person, the twists and turns of the characters in the film are too rigid, and the transformation is very rigid, which is difficult to resonate~

Machine Gun Preacher quotes

  • [last lines]

    Sam Childers: [guarding orphans] We're staying. Go on, get out of here.

  • Sam Childers: But God don't only call the good.I reckon every now and again he calls us sinners, too, and I was about as bad as they come.