Stallone Does Justice To The People Of Burma

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Saturday March 01, 2008 12:43

by Movie Fan

"Rambo" is anything but another cynical Hollywood blockbuster

It does what it says on the tin.
A simplistic plot.
A damsel in distress must be rescued by a hero against impossible odds.
A black and white vision of good and evil.

BUT WHAT EVIL!

Like no other movie I have ever seen, perhaps Schindler's List, this movie demonstrates the evil of ethnic cleansing, tyranny and injustice that the West would like to pretend does not exist.

Nobody can see this movie and not be changed, outraged and forced to do something for the people of Burma and other peoples oppressed through out the world.

Rambo is a walking physical and psychological scar, a Frankenstein monster, a broken Hercules, unloved and unwanted.

A group of sickeningly idealistic smugly pacficist bible bashers seek his help to get upriver into Burma in a childishly sentimental and utterly wrongheaded crusade to help the people of Burma.

How wrong they are, is demonstrated in a scene of indescrible brutality when the Burmese military wipe out a village and take them captive.

Naturally Rambo comes to the rescue and wipes out the bad guys.

The final battle is astonishingly violent.

Rambo literally rips the raping murdering bastards to pieces with a .50 calibre machine gun.

Apparently the Karen rebels who are fighting valiantly to stay alive have take comfort that their plight is being raised no matter how garishly.

The Myamar government unsurprisingly have banned the movie.

One is reminded of many parts of the world where injustice is perpetrated while the West stand idly by while the security of Iraqi oil gets top priority.

I cried as I remembered my indifference to the failure of the Burmese uprising last October.

Stallone's message to the governments of the world who prefer to ignore the crimes of evil regimes throughout the world.

DO SOMETHING, ANYTHING, RIGHT NOW AND STOP MAKING EXCUSES!