I tend to agree more with the reviewer who gave it 2 out of 10, but maybe I'm 'siding' with him just because I'm afraid of death! ;-) He also mentioned that it was a "platform for politically correctish pontificating" and I really agree with that in that they talk about how we fight and have wars to reaffirm that our race/clan etc. Are the 'correct' ones and that the enemy is just some kind of evil heathen animal that believes in a different type of God than us so deserves to die, and in this politically correct, white guilt-ridden film, 'WE', means us evil 'white men' and our American belief system and our war machines, man! Yeah this is just annoying and difficult to even listen to because it's mainly just BS. Why didn't they show radical Islamist's threatening to cut off people's heads if he didn't convert to Islam, because THAT would have been a far better example of religious intolerance -- but since the film was made by the white activist, guilt-ridden types, then of course they had to keep the focus on the 'man'.
I do believe that the radical Islamist's DO fight for religious reasons and the payoff they believe they're going to get in a paradise after death and 72 virgins and endless wine etc., but I don't believe that most white people go to war for the same reasons at all. I've seen a lot of soldiers interviewed who fought in Iraq and they're really good people who simply wanted to kill the Taliban who were oppressing the public which to me seems perfectly righteous and is not linked to anything selfish or seeking divinity.
As for war and this supposed deep link to one's own religion and immortality etc., I just think this is all a big load of garbage. When you're talking about basic fights that break out (they show footage of street fights), on that level, people are just like Chimpanzees. I saw Jane Goodall in an interview discussing the Gombe Chimpanzee War, and she was mortified at the brutality the chimps inflicted, and before this happened, she had believed that chimps were 'better' than people, but they're clearly not, and I think chimps are a perfect example of what people are like. We really are not very far removed from them and to think otherwise is very arrogant.
Anyhow, I can't say I'm very impressed with the film and/or most of the professors interviewed and they didn't bring anything new to the table for me. I don't believe in any kind of life after death and think our lives end when we die just as the chimps lives end.
Below is some info from the chimp war if you're interested:
Jane Goodall, a famous primatologist, is well known for her unprecedented findings of native chimpanzee populations in her studies. The outbreak of the war came as a disturbing shock to Goodall, who had previously considered chimpanzees to be, although similar to human beings, "rather 'nicer'". Coupled with her 1975 observation of cannibalistic infanticide by a high-ranking female in the community, the Gombe war revealed the "dark side" of chimpanzee behavior. In her 1990 memoir Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe, she wrote:
For several years I struggled to come to terms with this new knowledge. Often when I woke in the night, horrific pictures sprang unbidden to my mind-Satan (one of the apes... she had probably named him Satan even before this for a good reason), cupping his hand below Sniff's chin to drink the blood that welled from a great wound on his face; old Rodolf, usually so benign, standing upright to hurl a four-pound rock at Godi's prostrate body; Jomeo tearing a strip of skin from Dé's thigh; Figan, charging and hitting, again and again, the stricken, quivering body of Goliath, one of his childhood heroes. ...
I do believe that the radical Islamist's DO fight for religious reasons and the payoff they believe they're going to get in a paradise after death and 72 virgins and endless wine etc., but I don't believe that most white people go to war for the same reasons at all. I've seen a lot of soldiers interviewed who fought in Iraq and they're really good people who simply wanted to kill the Taliban who were oppressing the public which to me seems perfectly righteous and is not linked to anything selfish or seeking divinity.
As for war and this supposed deep link to one's own religion and immortality etc., I just think this is all a big load of garbage. When you're talking about basic fights that break out (they show footage of street fights), on that level, people are just like Chimpanzees. I saw Jane Goodall in an interview discussing the Gombe Chimpanzee War, and she was mortified at the brutality the chimps inflicted, and before this happened, she had believed that chimps were 'better' than people, but they're clearly not, and I think chimps are a perfect example of what people are like. We really are not very far removed from them and to think otherwise is very arrogant.
Anyhow, I can't say I'm very impressed with the film and/or most of the professors interviewed and they didn't bring anything new to the table for me. I don't believe in any kind of life after death and think our lives end when we die just as the chimps lives end.
Below is some info from the chimp war if you're interested:
Jane Goodall, a famous primatologist, is well known for her unprecedented findings of native chimpanzee populations in her studies. The outbreak of the war came as a disturbing shock to Goodall, who had previously considered chimpanzees to be, although similar to human beings, "rather 'nicer'". Coupled with her 1975 observation of cannibalistic infanticide by a high-ranking female in the community, the Gombe war revealed the "dark side" of chimpanzee behavior. In her 1990 memoir Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe, she wrote:
For several years I struggled to come to terms with this new knowledge. Often when I woke in the night, horrific pictures sprang unbidden to my mind-Satan (one of the apes... she had probably named him Satan even before this for a good reason), cupping his hand below Sniff's chin to drink the blood that welled from a great wound on his face; old Rodolf, usually so benign, standing upright to hurl a four-pound rock at Godi's prostrate body; Jomeo tearing a strip of skin from Dé's thigh; Figan, charging and hitting, again and again, the stricken, quivering body of Goliath, one of his childhood heroes. ...