Inglourious Basterds.

I went to watch Inglourious Basterds yesterday. Save for the fact that it gave me nightmares last night, it was overall, a good movie. It got me thinking though. That we always view the victims as the victims because they are, well, victims. And so the Jews are prototypes of victims. Poor things that got locked up in burning buildings, getting the star of David carved on their foreheads and killed mercilessly like animals. So we pity them and view the oppressors in a bad light. But what if it were the victims doing the dirty work now?

How will we react if it were the Jews who sculpt the Germans and crave swastikas on their forheads? Will we view them the same ways we view the Germans? Or will we cork our eyebrows and say: 'Oh, they are protecting themselves and seeking revenge for the horrors the Germans did to them.' But here I ask, if someone slaps you, will you slap that person back? Will that help matters?

Yes, Ingluorious Basterds is a fictatious movie but what if it were true? That the victims are also issuing the same treatment their oppressors gave them. This, my friends, is the horrors of war. The burning, bombing, screaming, and gun shots are all part and parcel of war. Sickeningly though are the things that the different parties involve do to one another, killing each other in cold blood. So here comes the bottomline, why war? And can the world be at peace with one another?

People always go on and on about the horrors of war and blah blah blah but at the end of the day, both parties lose because both parties lost many of their countrymen. Will we humans ever stop hating one another? All it takes is one person to smile at the person who slapped him and walk away. Is it really that hard?

So in essence are there really prototypes of victims? Or are these people engaging in victimage? I am not saying that the horrors of war is not true, it is true and it happened and to purge guilt of starting the war, scapegoating was carried out. Hitler was the main guy who started the war, but Hitler alone could not have started the war, he needed a team of people and there you have it, World War 2. I wonder if Hitler ever felt guilty bout starting World War 2, the war that took so many lives. I wonder if he ever knew the full extent his actions has caused. Does guilt ever take a foothold on this man? I wonder, but I'll never know.