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more than just a show

okay okay...everyone had their comments for the post exam activities.seems like i am pressurized to do it too:D
see,we watched pirates of the caribbean.as expected,i'm going to tell u that was the first time i watched that movie.can't really remember much;i don't have a photographic memory.but i know i absolutely liked it,cos it was set in the pre-Industrial Revolution era...in other words...anything is pertains to history...is nice!so i felt the movie was nice(lame.)well i particularly loved the funny slang terms they used.funny they were for they were of days of yore.and especially the numerous poetic recitations.lovely there were,just like the face of a swiss maiden.yea i felt that literary expressions are able to inject life into my lowlife life.the persona of Captain Jack Sparrow leaves much to be deciphered,even after the movie.in the movie,he is both ally and enemy to both antagonists and protagonists alike,depending on his situation,which instils a sense of deep hatred in his seeming betrayals.yet we are instantaneously gratified when we see him aiding the rash Will Turner.it left me with a deep message;that is,how many of us are,whilst seeming like friends,actually backstabbers.the prospect is definitely a gloomy one.well,not that we voluntarily do it by nature of prejudice,but just to save our skins?it is horrifying that we sometimes make decisions that will benefit us...but at the expense of others.this school has lots of them.i know plenty of them.and i fear,that i will lose my honour;to be like them.to become someone you hate.oh my,i don't want to think about it anymore.back to the movie.all in all,the movie didn't leave much of a deep impression on me,as as we are to see,another had it.on friday we watched the last samurai.i was constantly on the edge of my seat all the while,to be honest.but why?it is due to the termination of one's life-all too fast,too short,too unglorified.not to mention the movie was so gory,i felt it should have been rated nc-16.so the movie started on a sprightly note...think it was like brad pitt was more of a bounty hunter.so it did make for many mercenary kind of transactions.again,it showed the human weaknesses.get paid to kill innocents.throughout the whole movie,he is haunted by his experiences.sick they were,but it made me feel...bad.don't know why.u see,the mounted cavalrymen already had guns,so to kill anyone,one shot was enough.i could say the cavalry squadron leader did a fine job in his acting.evil face he had.a smug justified face when he was hunting defenseless children.just saw children fleeing,but how could two feet compete with steeds on horseshoes?so,the entire settlement was wiped out.don't know what stopped me from vomiting.i can't take such images haha...
when pitt was captured by the samurais,i could guess the plot already;he was to fight against the imperialist forces he was paid to train.then while he was being escorted back to their hillside camp,he saw the execution of an old man.just that scene,but no explanation immediately.so he would discover,later,that the old man was the defeated general,who requested to be beheaded by the samurai.again,it sure was sick.through the process of hara-kiri,he stabbed his abdomen,and then after that...we saw his head on the floor.the camp leader was the one who wielded the samurai sword and beheaded him.but still,no further elaborations were given.so i got home and did some research.it seems that since the general had failed to defeat the samurai rebels,he took it as a shame to himself.in nippon,when one was defeated,and failed to achieve his goal,he would take death as punishment.however,that application of hara-kiri is only practised by the samurai.therefore,the captured general died a glorious death as a matter-of-fact.however,was there a need for the beheading,some of you may inquire.well,it was done in the full welfare of the person commiting ritual suicide.hard to believe,isn't it?you see,when one stabs himself into the abdomen,he is bound to experience pain.duh.but,as it is the abdomen you are talking about,the pain would probably be amplified,for it is a soft part of the body.therefore,on the first moments after the dagger has penetrated the body,the executioner would immediately slice off the person's head,to ensure a painless death.sounds tragic,but it indeed is a painless death.hara-kiri is a foreign term.the samurai did not call ritual suicide hara-kiri,preferring to call it seppuku.hara-kiri is considered vulgar by them,as when directly translated it is a crude meaning.as samurai were the upper castes of society,seppuku was their privilege.commoners could not request this type of suicide;they could only poison or hang themselves.
i would never forget the graphic scenes in the movie.way too graphic for me.slit throats,gashed torsos,displaced heads...and tonnes of that 'my-blade-exits-through-the-other-side-of-your-body' deaths.we now come to the logical loopholes.as usual,the lead is a superhero.but when the common soldier dies with one shot,the two heroes,the rebel leader and pitt take more than one shot each,about 5 on the average,that is a conservative estimate?well,heroes are eternal,yea and pitt survived.what nonsense.the other just 'dies in time',giving himself the exalted seppuku.sometimes i wonder,whether i should cry when i saw the emperor meiji cry.the deaths of half a hundred men who died fighting for their ill-fated cause being the result of his indecisiveness.haha,it was afterall, a young man who was emperor,which came as a shock to those watching the movie for the first time.he looked like a common soldier when he went to battle with the military uniform.(okay he looked like a wuss :P) still,the movie did not fail to impress,with the magnificent military strategies that seemed impossible to execute.
imagine the shock the children of the samurai received when their fathers were all slaughtered,leaving no qualified samurai behind.how hard they practised their ways,in order to become one.it sure was hard to accept the fact that they no longer have to practise for war.same shock to the german wehrmacht feldgrau when it was announced that war would end.all this while,for the last century prior to the two world wars at least,germans had been training for war since childhood.they must have got the same shock.this shock is hard to explain.

think i've been boring you all this while.usually you all would give me a -_-" look for this.can't blame you.but if you were reading this seriously,u got anything to ask,just ask me for clarification.savvy? :)

"plak!";
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