The darkness does not fade
Tuesday, November 10th, 2015 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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So I finally broke down and watched Black Hawk Down last night. Jesus fuck, what a depressing movie. I almost shut it off at the halfway mark. Between the unrelenting grimness and my developing queasiness at the very idea of trying to recreate something like this in the first place, it was too much, but I managed to finish it.
Remember that old song? War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing! This is the part of humanity that makes me glad we're heading down the hole, frankly - the entire constellation of violence, bloodshed, war, all of it. It's fucking obscene, but it's also the reason we're human and not something else. We can't get rid of it, so good fucking riddance to us, I say.
Fucking hell. That is it, I swear - no more fucking war movies for me. End. Finis. Done.
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So I finally broke down and watched Black Hawk Down last night. Jesus fuck, what a depressing movie. I almost shut it off at the halfway mark. Between the unrelenting grimness and my developing queasiness at the very idea of trying to recreate something like this in the first place, it was too much, but I managed to finish it.
Remember that old song? War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing! This is the part of humanity that makes me glad we're heading down the hole, frankly - the entire constellation of violence, bloodshed, war, all of it. It's fucking obscene, but it's also the reason we're human and not something else. We can't get rid of it, so good fucking riddance to us, I say.
Fucking hell. That is it, I swear - no more fucking war movies for me. End. Finis. Done.
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Date: Wednesday, November 11th, 2015 11:32 pm (UTC)I will say this - this fucking movie makes me want to go back and watch Cooties again. Hell, even Maniac would do to scrub the bits of this thing that are stuck to my brain. (Geez yeah, that's an apt image for the way I feel, actually - like somebody's brains got blown out inside my head, and now I have to clean all the blood and gunk off the walls of my head. ARGH)
Yeah, don't go near this one. Yes, it's technically amazing, but what's being depicted is so unrelentingly horrible, with absolute no redemption or anything to make it seem worth the trip. It's just a slog through hell, and then you get kicked out the door to go back to life, all fucked up by what you've seen. Yeah, thanks for that, guys.