Just about finished reading (listening) to Unbroken. Anyone read it or see the movie? I'll check the movie out after the book. It's a solid read. I don't know anyone that's seen the movie.
It's pretty intense and as a friend back in high school would say "it's tough". Totally has me thinking about a lot of things when it comes to human behavior. Limits of resiliency and the depth of darkness that humans can inflict on one another, yet also endure. I'm not naive enough to think very similar things didn't happen in US camps for Japanese POWs or at Guantanamo and now other undisclosed locations.
To be born in a different time period, to different parents, a different part of the world, or to simply have made a few different choices; even have some of my stupid choices go wrong instead of get lucky and life would be very different. Extremely humbling to think about.
Between Unbroken and something I just saw on facebook...along with little sleep; it really got me thinking. I saw a picture of my nieces (2 years old) wearing Darth Vader helmets. They love Vader and walk around singing "Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun". The Imperial March is really their jam. And just below that was an AP photo of a young girl and her assault rifle.
Why do some kids get to play war and others are born into it? Sorry to get all deep. It's not something we like to think about, but that shits crazy!
Yeah...pretty sure I'd be broken pretty quick. Hell of a book. No way the movie will live up to it, but I'm sure it will still be pretty moving/amazing.
There are so many points where I thought...this is fiction. No way that happened. Who does that? Then I stopped and remembered my time in prison (on staff) and thought: Nope, I can totally see it. All of it. Not just from those I got to know wearing the grey, orange, maroon, tan, and green uniforms (prisoners/detainees) but the actions of those in blue (COs) too. Think Zimbardo's prison experiment. Humans are capable of crazy stuff and the resiliency of some individuals is nothing short of divinely inspired.
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