Personal Pain, Unforgiveness, Blinding Hatred, Indiscriminate Revenge

Rating: 6/10 (12 August 2012)

If my mother and four siblings were slaughtered by Muslims (or any group or nation) as they worked in the fields, would I nurse my pain, grow hatred so deep and wide, that when I was an adult and powerful, I would slaughter a Muslim/enemy woman and her four children in the fields?
Would I raise my children to fundamentally hate our neighbors – and friends - even while we lived and worked together?
So that when the time for revenge was right, we would all murder and rape with the same blindness that drove the killers of my mother and siblings?
This movie addresses these questions and more. I will be thinking about this movie for a long time. Do not believe the critics who decry the movie's superficiality, etc. It is anything but. I am a conservative; I am an American; I find war confusing. I do not find unforgiveness and revenge confusing; they are natural. Doing the unnatural is difficult,sometimes impossible without divine intervention.
I will continue to ask myself, until I know the answers: If my mother and four siblings were slaughtered by Muslims (or any group or nation) as they worked in the fields, would I nurse my pain, grow hatred so deep and wide, that when I was an adult and powerful, I would slaughter a Muslim/enemy woman and her four children in the fields?
Would I raise my children to fundamentally hate our neighbors – and friends - evenwhile we lived and worked together?
So that when the time for revenge was right, we would all murder and rape with the same blindness that drove the killers of my mother and siblings?