Lions for Lambs

November 28th, 2007

A couple weeks ago my wife and I decided to go see the new political/war drama “Lions for Lambs”. I was a little leery at first because of how most movies seem to have an agenda. I thought that this movie would be all about how bad the war is and how we should be getting our troops out. Most of these ideas came from the fact that the movie stars both Tom Cruise and Robert Redford.

I don’t have a problem with people expressing their opinions but right now we don’t have a shortage of hollywood types sharing their so called expert opinions. To my surprise this movie was very unbiassed. Most if not all the sides of the issue are represented and are given the same weight in the story. No one opinion seems to be overtly pushy.

I think all adults should see this movie, it is very helpful in seeing other points of view on this issue. In the United States we are not very good listeners. People seem to have their opinions and don’t care about how anyone else see’s the world. That behavior hurts us internally as a country and on the world stage. Other country’s see us as a snotty teen ager that thinks they know all there is to know.

Learn to listen to each other. Learn to respect each other. You don’t know everything and you never will. If nothing else sit in a theatre and watch this movie and have them show you all the differing points of view. Having an open mind isn’t going to hurt you.

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