Sunday, June 18, 2006 @1:59 PM
there are so much that i wanted to blog but i just couldn't remember.
i was watching black hawk down yesterday.. again. i think i watched it at least three times. first time cos i fell in love with josh harnett in pearl harbor, but later found him to be too dirty and rugged in this movie. i mean, what can you expect when you are fighting a war. pearl harbor was a sucky war movie cos you see josh harnett clean-shaved, losing the focus on the attack and much more emphasis on the love triangle. ha, anyway, because of black hawk down, i noticed eric bana and ooh, haha, which further explains why i watched troy. i never knew orlando bloom was in the movie as well. haha, but just like in troy, he's a loser. he got injured not coz he fought a war, but coz he fell from the helicopter.
i love black hawk down, now that the whole conflict made more sense to me. i actually went to read my UN book (WOW!) to find out more about somalia before i watched it yesterday. and i was pleasantly surprised that because of history, i understood the conflict and the dialogues better. like in the opening scene, UN sent food aid to somalia because the civilians there were dying of hunger because of wars between tribal factions and a severe drought. but the civilian rebels/armies said that these food were for general aidid. and these soldiers on the helicopter could not do anything. they didn't explain why but now i know why. it's because they would be violating article 2(7) of the UN Charter. you can go google it and you will understand why.
another interesting point i noted when i watched it last night was this scene when the soldiers were ready to fire but could not do do, unless they were fired upon 1st. again, it had to do with the articles of the UN charter as the PEACEKEEPING forces cannot fire unless they were fired upon 1st. it was not mentioned in the movie but the Security council had adopted a resolution authorizing the secretary general to take all nessar measures to establish authority of UNOSMO to arrest, try and punish those responsible for the attack. and this is the first time a peacekeeping operation was authorized to use force under Chapter VII of the UN charter. i figured that's why the US troops could head down to the town central to capture the general.
but of coz this movie is extremely biased, merely showing how the US soldiers sacrificed themselves. often, in history, we criticized the US for being stupid and nosy, but this is a refreshing side of the US soldiers. and the petty politics.
precisely i could understand the movie, the controversy and biasness made a lot of sense to me. haha, studying history is a good thing. (:
maybe my UN book isn't so boring afterall