The Terrorist (1998)
8/10
A beautiful, sad portrail of other's lives.
5 October 2001
I thought "The Terrorist", a story about a young girl chosen for a suicide mission to serve her country was an excelent depiction of life in other places... the use of children in this movie was a great way to further the remorse... to think that for things like guiding people through landmine-staked forrests and assasinating powerful leaders they use children, its disgusting, but so full of truth that you simply can't deny it.

A large portion of the emotion left in this movie was seeing the main character experience her most precious moments over again, and seeing what they were like... even that was convincing enough to not want to go forward with her suicide mission. The truly sad part is, though, when we look at ourselves (meaning us from first world nations), and see that we have extrodinarily more complex and wonderful lives then those portrayed in this movie, but even with that in mind, even the most cold-blooded killer would rather remain on this earth, even in its horrible conditions, then simply die when given the choice. How can people commit suicide, you must wonder. We really do have a great deal of wonderful choices and ways of being in this life, and its a glimpse on another, much more sad lives that much us really understand it.

Overall, this movie was about love, compasion and the will to live in even the most cruel environments. It's a very sad movie, but it gives you a much lighter perspective on everything people like myself have to deal with. Life isn't that tough, you know, and if you need to be reminded of that, see this movie. It was a beautiful, compeling film, and I'd suggest it for any film buff out there, because it might be a little slow for the average viewer, but overall, an excelent piece of film.
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