“…whether his emotional response is neutral or negative to this immediate demand for his attention, one thing is absolutely certain – he will never be happy to have been asked this”
The chaos (feminine) of war is created when warriors battle each other. But what each side is ultimately trying to achieve the restoration of order (masculine)
When most people speak about choosing peace instead, they do so as a puppet; their mouths being flapped open and shut by the hand of social conditioning, their words being spoken by the ventriloquism of socialization.
I have weird karma around just missing such incidents, as in, I was ALMOST there. Including 911, the Vegas shootings, a machete rampage in north London and an attempted coup in the Philippines.
I had come to watch this film only to see what the fuss was about. What I wasn’t expecting was to discover a piece of cinema that tapped into some of my own personal grief, and what I also believe to be the collective grief of many other men.