When the Kenyan officer, while being hunted by militia, still took time to try to save that girl's life. Balls and heart. And also, at the end, when those militia guy's disassembled their machine gun mount on the truck in order to carry the little girl. I swear, those last 10 minutes I had forgotten how to breathe.
sharethe last scene you mention was I thought an attempt to show how western powers can seem heartless compared to the terrorists for the people on the ground. In the fathers position they helped him, regardless of their other crimes, when his daughter had just been blown up by the western powers.
shareWhat compassion? They place their headquarters, which they knew would be a target, right in the midst of a civilian area. We see this same kind of thing in Gaza. Hamas puts its command centers in civilian areas, its arms caches in hospitals, and its missile launch positions in schools. Using innocent civilians as shields is the opposite of compassion: It is criminal.
shareThank you!
shareYou seem to be forgetting that the Palestinians are fighting an illegal occupation and not a war. The bombing of the hospitals and schools was planned and carried out by a military which refers to the people inside as cockroaches. I've seen their hatred first hand.
I urge you strongly to read the works of Chris Hedges, former NYT Middle East correspondent, humanitarian, and ordained minister.
This interview with a Jewish Israeli journalist is a good place to start:
https://youtu.be/Vq_KbImevio
I thought the scene was another instance of showing the complexities and contradictions that occur in war and in peoples' minds. Didn't see it as pro-Islamists or anti-European. Just a moment where a person faces a situation, debates the possibilities, and makes a decision. Where his or her heart and mind are revealed.
Or, a scene which says that people can be humans and have a conscience in any situation.
Call me a cynic, but... the foot soldiers return to their headquarters, only to find it blasted to dust. Realizing that their leadership is probably dead, that the structure of their organization is in shambles, that they, as wearing the wrong "uniform", might be next, they ditch the terror org and make a quick side switch. Now they're on the side of helping civilians. This happens all the time (e.g. Nazis stripping off their uniforms in the face of advancing Soviet armies).
It's not compassionate or human on their part, merely expedient.
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CincyDude, your scenario sounds credible to me, but I don't think it's what the filmmakers meant. Not that they have all the answers of course.
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