"These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world... and then we fucked up the endgame."
Charlie Wilson
Charlie Wilson's War
2007
Hanks delivers a poignant performance as the congressman, Charlie Wilson from Texas. Charlie Wilson is known for leading a war to defeat the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. By supplying the Afghanistan people with money, weapons and support, it eventually brings consequence at the price of sorrow in the people.
Question is: What lengths can one man go to overcome seeking what is on the outside so right and appropriate?
How do we know when something is important? How do we know when choices we make can and will have little effect on people? I often at times wonder why people make choices for others to begin with. As parents people make choices for their children. As leaders of a country, the leaders make choices for their followers. When can politics seem acceptable enough to make choices for another country?
I think that over time and over obstacles outside of ones control, that someone must step in and say that enough is enough.
When protecting one over understanding the outcome of another weighs greater on the perception, when can one say that perception isn't a war to be fought?
Think about how and where we as citizens, people, and democracy are in the world's hands. Think about how in any given circumstance someone is protecting us and we internally have to protect those we are accountable to. Is it imperative to know that there is a chain of superiority that allows the inferior to be superior to someone most important to them?
I think the choices one makes is ultimately the decision held back by another. Perhaps it is supported by someone at some caliber, but, is it actually decided by you?
Charlie Wilson's War demonstrated that power is poignant and status is accepting. We as one, are weak, together we are strong. Uncertain we are divided. Through compassion we are equals, through perception we are oblivious.
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Casting Hanks gives you good results you can always expect.
It's a learning curve for us to take on as a human race -- to understand what freedom and free will truly mean, not only for ourselves but also for others, and to know that the Divine is in each of us, no matter where we stand...
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