Isn't it interesting how the good Nigerians (or victims) in the movie are Christians and the bad Nigerians are Muslims? And how the bad Muslim Nigerians destroy a church?
Just an observation.
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Surely you can't tell all their religions for sure, because we don't see their bio-datas. But bad guy general is a Muslim, so its reasonable to think the bad guy faction is Muslism. And judging buy the few names we know of refugees, its reasonable to think that the refugees are Christians.
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a very weak observation.
it is better to have a gun and not need it, than to need a gun and not have it
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It's not very hard to make people, who practice ethnic cleansing, out to be the bad guys. Honestly, I didn't spend much time thinking about the destroyed church. I was spending more time focused on the beheaded priest, bodies stacked 3-4 high, the raping of women, and the woman who had her breasts cut off so she couldn't nurse her baby.
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The second village had a graveyard that was filled exclusively with crosses. Although it could be assumed that village had more than one graveyard, and only the "christian graveyard" was seen on screen, it didn't 'just happen' to work out that way. That entire village (including the christian graveyard) was specifically constructed to film those scenes. It's no mistake that the graveyard was 'in the shot' (forground or background) multiple times.
All-in-all, I think it's safe to say the screenwriter wanted the viewer to know the second village was a christian village. Think about it... a christian graveyard doesn't just get constructed on a movie set and shown on screen multiple times by accident.
This may not be politically correct, but there has been more Muslim attacks on Christians in the current day Africa and the Middle East than the other way around. It just happened in Egypt and a couple of other countries recently.
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what's the christian equivalent of 'boko harum'?
it is better to have a gun and not need it, than to need a gun and not have it
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In any movie doesn't crosses in the ground simply indicate a graveyard, lots of dead people? Sorry for my ignorance, how would a Muslim graveyard be depicted in a quick shot in a movie? Or a a Buddhist graveyard?
Crosses are a symbol of the christian religion. Ya know, because CHRIST (supposedly) died on a CROSS...
share"In any movie doesn't crosses in the ground simply indicate a graveyard, lots of dead people? Sorry for my ignorance, how would a Muslim graveyard be depicted in a quick shot in a movie? Or a a Buddhist graveyard?"--answer to your question is tombstones without the crosses. yes, u shuld apologize for your ignorance.
shareyup, this movie is catered to a Western audience who has no idea about the situation in Nigeria but is real quick to jump to conclusions. Western audiences do not sympathize with Muslims, they love to hate them. Also, they do not want to know about what their militaries really do in Africa.
shareI kind of think you are all taking this out of context, y'know. I watched this movie and felt entertained by it. I was interested to know what other people thought about it, as we all do when we we've watched something. It's good to exchange feelings and experiences. This movie entertained me - nothing more and nothing less - that's what movies are designed to do! There may well be better movies that put across a true message. This wasn't one of them. I don't think really it intended to be meaningful in that way. It was meant as entertainment, and for me it succeeded in that respect. Let's face it, with Bruce Willis as the star, what are you looking for?
shareChristians are a minority in Africa and much more vulnerable. Unfortunately in that part of the world powerful groups/countries/ethnics/religions impose their rules by killing others.
Anyway, muslims are involved in most of the wars and conflicts in the world, many of them think they have to kill non-muslims.
Christians are a minority in Africa and much more vulnerable. Unfortunately in that part of the world powerful groups/countries/ethnics/religions impose their rules by killing others.
Anyway, muslims are involved in most of the wars and conflicts in the world, many of them think they have to kill non-muslims.
Killing and frighten is the only way to impose a radical religion.
I know that other religions have also had obscure periods but they tend to evolve and people tend to become atheistic.
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Not much of an observation. This movie is based loosely around the Nigerian Civil War that ran from 1966 to 1970. The movie is a more modern interpretation and a dramatization of any events that took place obviously, but it stays true to many of the actual atrocities that took place, the primary ones being the systematic massacre of huge numbers of primarily Christian peoples called the "Igbo" who were living in the Muslim dominated North at the time the war began. History is history, and it was the Muslim military faction in the North that staged the coup that ultimately led to the Civil War, and it was the Northern military that carried out the massacres. They actually explain it all at the beginning of the movie, might want to pay a little more attention next time.
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