We didn’t have fun. It was family movie night.
We watched a movie called ” The Rocket” had a very realistic birth scene of twins with the second still born and the young mother dying after being kicked out of her village in Laos by some british corporation, probably IMF funded, dam building project. The people were promised a nice village with new houses and spectacularly fertile soil but were given squalor amidst old unexploded ordinance.
The Movie was trying to keep the massive carpet bombing / cluster bombing of Laos by the US from being forgotten I think.
I like the anti-cluster bomb agenda.
The movie is a good contrast to veterans day hype that the schools are throwing out right now. My kid said, I am not happy that America did that. He was having a hard time understanding why I would not participate in “Bring a veteran to school day”. He said most of the veterans , when put in front of a mic to speak, looked like they wanted to cry and couldn’t talk much so that’s really good. I wasn’t there, but I kind of visualizing the superintendent cheerleading the military none-the less, I think they sang patriotic songs. O.K. only the kindergarten and first graders sang about the heroes happily coming home. It’s best to get them young.
My other son says, good + evil= human.
Happy ending for the remnants of one family, they win a rocket flight contest and get enough money to buy good land and build a house.
