Wind that makes them shake

Rating: 8/10 (7 April 2008)

This is the kind of movie everyone should watch. Or is it not? Well, I guess in current times where people prefer to be blind towards serious matters, then, this one is a must-see, but how do we clearly "see" that?
If movies like Braveheart, Michael Collins, Passion of Joan of Arc, or Silkwood, are more and more seemingly just like the fading of memory, then more and more movies like No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood will keep on filling this "momentary" need of a few people to ignore history and its martyrs. This movie is not a masterpiece; however, it has a differential from previous martyrs-movies, if I can call those like that... this one clearly makes us see the two kinds of people who create the martyrs:
1. the ones in power, who no longer see or touch reality at all, due to their large-scale occupations;
2. Their followers, who are in constant visual contact with serious issues, but are hired to mediate and numb any serious issue out of anyone who think has one.
With all the distractions, fear does not get stronger, and for some time is no longer perceived. And from Braveheart to Silkwood (historically, or in real life) time still passes, and new presidents get elected, and most likely a son of a previous president, or a prince, then he hires more new people to distract more new and poorer people... and after two thousand years martyrs from Braveheart (previous Alexander Nevski, or Spartacus) to Silkwood simply die or get killed. And in the end, we, the audience,are the ones who actually have to watch all of this. We applaud. We feed this recycling chase throughout times and we choose what we find interesting at that moment, so we can see it, look at it, understand it... and very little changes, except our fear of death. When the wind blows, not only barley shakes, but the trees, buildings, our bodies, even the sand in the desert shakes. Now, do you think selling yourself out for some sort of comfort and false safety is not enough distraction? Then let the breeze in!