A for Awareness
This might be a first for alder's ledge: a movie review.
This author recently watched a Netflix available movie titled "Machine Gun Preacher." It's gritty, it's rated R for a reason and it's controversial. But it brings to the table a method to heighten awareness of the child soldiers and mistreat going on in the Sudan if not anything else.
The movie is based on a real person and a real conflict. As covered in previous posts- the Sudan has been in the clutches of horrific genocides and rebellions for many years. This particular film focuses the horror tactics used by the Lord's Resistance Army in terrorizing villages and abducting children for the use of their militia. This is currently still ongoing. The real person- the Machine Gun Preacher- Sam Childers is a man that has created a orphanage in the Sudan through the non-profit organization Angels of East Africa he founded. This too is still currently operating as the war continues in Sudan.
The controversy is always where the facts end and fiction begins. The movie is "based" on his (Sam Childers' life from his book Another Man’s War: The True Story of One Man’s Battle to Save Children in the Sudan) Childers' has stated himself the movie has been a bit "hollywoodized" with minor character changes and slight time sequence differences, but overall gets the point. There are nay-sayers and yay-sayers about this film, about this man and about this ministry. That is not the point of this post.
This movie begins a much needed awareness to the main stream about the the issue of child soldiers and land mines being used in the world (focusing on the Sudan in this case.) This movie also shows an audience there are means for them to do something about it. There are ministries, reliefs, and organizations that one can donate, volunteer and participate in. (please thoroughly research these before giving out personal information, though.) So the movie gets an A for Awareness from me. Personally I enjoyed the film, too.
source documents:
Machine Gun Preacher
http://www.machinegunpreacher.org/features/
CP Entertainment
http://www.christianpost.com/news/machine-gun-preacher-real-life-sam-childers-more-unbelievable-55857/
Not all resources are listed
This might be a first for alder's ledge: a movie review.
This author recently watched a Netflix available movie titled "Machine Gun Preacher." It's gritty, it's rated R for a reason and it's controversial. But it brings to the table a method to heighten awareness of the child soldiers and mistreat going on in the Sudan if not anything else.
The controversy is always where the facts end and fiction begins. The movie is "based" on his (Sam Childers' life from his book Another Man’s War: The True Story of One Man’s Battle to Save Children in the Sudan) Childers' has stated himself the movie has been a bit "hollywoodized" with minor character changes and slight time sequence differences, but overall gets the point. There are nay-sayers and yay-sayers about this film, about this man and about this ministry. That is not the point of this post.
This movie begins a much needed awareness to the main stream about the the issue of child soldiers and land mines being used in the world (focusing on the Sudan in this case.) This movie also shows an audience there are means for them to do something about it. There are ministries, reliefs, and organizations that one can donate, volunteer and participate in. (please thoroughly research these before giving out personal information, though.) So the movie gets an A for Awareness from me. Personally I enjoyed the film, too.
source documents:
Machine Gun Preacher
http://www.machinegunpreacher.org/features/
CP Entertainment
http://www.christianpost.com/news/machine-gun-preacher-real-life-sam-childers-more-unbelievable-55857/
Not all resources are listed
This movie also shows an audience there are means for them to do something about it.
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