the great raid

Compare to what I’ve experience the night before at Nova’s party, yesterday morning when I was at to the cinema to see a movie with my sister Inur a.k.a Menel, I saw different crowd. This time they were not the urban legend and so I can say that they were the ordinary. Are they happier compare to the other group I saw the other night? They seem to have normal lives with normal faces. I say faces because I didn’t see too-happy faces that morning. They didn’t get excited to see their friends and I felt something is missing, but I couldn’t figure it out that morning. Maybe my eyes just wanted to see the best things (for my eyes) in life. Beautiful ladies, handsome guys, and smiles on every faces. Has my conscious spoiled me? Maybe it is true that we like to see the happy mask and not the plain one. Happiness is contagious and I like to hang out with happy people especially when I feel a tiny winy upset.

Anyway, I saw this movie The Great Raid based on two books The Great Raid: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor by William B. Breuer and Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission of Hampton Sides. John Dahl (the director) stirring the true story of one of the most spectacular rescue missions ever to take place in American history: “the great raid on Cabanatuan,” the daring exploit that would liberate more than 500 U.S. Prisoners of War in the face of overwhelming odds. A gripping depiction of human resilience, the film vividly brings to life the personal courage and audacious heroism that allowed a small but stoic band of World War II soldiers to attempt the impossible in the hopes of freeing their captured brothers.

In every war, there is always be a great romance. Romances that keep us fighting even when we don’t know what the future promise. I don’t believe in happy ending but I do believe in the greatest love. So ... for the love story in that movie, I give it five out of five stars. It doesn’t have to have a happy ending with happily ever after. It just has to have the strong willpower to keep us enthusiast about love itself.