Watching Argo

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Argo, DVD, movie review, movies, postaday2013

My hubby and I have finally gotten around to watching Argo. I know that at the Oscars it did very well, best picture but for some reason my hubby and I weren’t chomping at the bit to see it in the movie theater.

Watching it, I see why it won best picture, it is very well made. So well made that it is bringing back many memories of that time. I was 12-13 years old at that time and it was very distressing and scary to think that foreign people could be so angry with our country that they would hurt fellow Americans innocent of any wrongdoing.

Now as an adult I have a much more nuanced understanding of the events and the history between the United States and Iran as well as the rest of the Middle East. Our oil companies and our government’s support for those oil companies impacted that region in ways that we are still paying for, sad in my opinion. What I find the saddest is that for twenty years my political text books regarding Oil, MiddleEast and Politics are still relevant.

This movie is so well done precisely for the fact that I am still having stress watching this even though I know the ending, I am sitting on pins and needles watching them try to pull off this charade of an escape.

I can imagine their absolute fear, I can feel their rising sense of panic and their anxiety over the complete loss of control over their lives. What do you do when you can’t reason with your potential captors? What do you do when you are in a situation where you are hated for inexplicable reasons and it is ultimately not your fault but your government’s perceived slights to a foreign people.

I feel for the Iranian people that they had had enough with having a cruel dictator such as the Shah of Iran foisted on them and then to be denied justice in their own courts but what they did to the American hostages in retaliation was completely unconscionable.

What a stressful time and very believable portrayed and communicated through film. Congratulations Ben Afleck!

Momentous discovery

What's the most significant secret you've ever discovered about someone else? Did the truth come out?

Not to be picky or catty but somone should perhaps keep track of the prompts. This one is only a few weeks old, too soon to recycle. Anyhow, secrets have no business being aired online within social media. Is their nothing sacred? I suppose that in this age of casual interaction and the false sense of anonymity, it is getting very easy to share someone else's secrets without seriously gauging the consequences and the fall out.

I prefer to use social media to keep in touch with my close friends and family who live far away, the instantaneous connection through the ether helps to erase the miles that separate us.

The reason that I started this post saying that I wasn't being picky or catty is due to the fact that even the same prompt can generate a different response from the same person who answered that prompt just a few weeks ago.

Secrets can be dangerous, they can be hurtful, they can be power, they can finally be liberating, it depends who is keeping them, who is not and the moral fiber of all those involved.

Most good drama depend heavily on secrets so for those aspiring dramatic novelists, the exploration of secrets should be a matter of fact past-time in behavioral study.

I am blessed with a horrendous memory so secrets for me can easily become a permanent secret, I couldn't remember them to spill them to anyone.

Interesting that this prompt came back around so quickly, I wonder if those who inspire the prompts are subconsciously struggling with something. I wonder if I am overthinking this or if there might be something to my little theory. Just a thought.