Our activity today was supposed to be to watch a foreign film. Ken went to Blockbuster and looked through the foreign film section. He found a movie that looked interesting but it seemed like a documentary so he wasn't sure if it was in the correct section of the store. He asked the person at Blockbuster if it was a foreign film and they said that if it was in that section then it was. The movie was called "The Devil Came on Horseback". It is a documentary about the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. The movie is based on the experiences of an American photographer who spent some time monitoring the cease fire in Darfur only to discover that there wasn't really a cease fire but instead mass genocide was happening. He talks about his journey to bring light and support to what was really happening in that region. The movie was informative and interesting also quite gory and heartwrenching. However, in my definition it wasn't a foreign film. We might have to try the foreign film activity again in the future.
So, if this wasn't a foreign film then what made it a different activity than the documentary that we watched last Friday?? Well, for one it was about a world issue that we were really ignorant on. So, we learned something new. It was also something "different" than I would have ever chose to watch had I known exactly what it would be like. As well, it was "different" than the activity that we had planned.......so there you go. Sometimes you just have to "go with the flow"!
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