DULCE ET DECORUM EST

if there is a movie that has touched me deeply it has to be "the rock", starring nicholas cage and sean conneary. the opening scene where the best seal team is trying to breach the defenses of alcatraz is a scene i can never get sick of watching no matter how many times i've watched it. it started off so promising, so full of hope. next, we thrust into the deepest pits of despair and hopelessness when the seal team is surrounded on all sides by enemies on an elevated platform. when all is lost and surrender the only feasible option the seal commander then decided to sway his wayward commarades with a all or nothing speach, begging them to remember their oaths to the seals etc etc. which finally earned the seal team their deaths when a loose brick falls on the floor resulting in a massacre of the seal team.

maybe it was the way it was filmed or perhaps the choice of words. i think it was the message they were trying to sell. so powerful, so strong and so right.

now if it were me in their shoes, i probably will not go on the mission. if i had to, it probably means that the special forces are dead. the commandos are missing. and the whole lot of other people that are born and bred for missions like this (which makes them more than a 1000 times more suitable than me) are probably dead. so bad that they have to send in the armoured bridge recce coy. so yeah, if it boils down to me i'll prob get an excuse lower limbs and stay in bed watching my friends go off to war.

jokes aside, i'll go. as if i had a choice to and i doubt they'll take the excuse lower limbs seriously and there aint no way i'm letting two of the dumbest pple i know go off to war without big brother adrian. i'll march off to war, leading my pathetic team of 4 men. like the movie stars, i'll sneak my way thru all the defenses etc etc. and make my way to the shower room where i'll get ambushed in the shower room.

but NO WAY will i try to move them with my speech and all. i'll turn the safety on and surrender. like they say, its better lo leave and fight another day. in chinese. liu de qing shan zha. bu pa meh cha shao. = leave the green mountains. not scared no wood to burn.

and lastly.

The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori.