I spoke the new African movie

I spoke the new African movie 'traitors' look. In years a movie me so upset. I have walked out with eyes that were narrowed and cried with a heavy feeling in my heart. Indeed 4399 ... is freedom so much was?
"War is insanity, and betrayal is a broken word." "Treason get a different meaning every time you from another point of view to look at." - It's the words that I will remember. Also "The real traitors are those who can not admit that they lost it ... playing God with a Mauser in hand."
And then the young Van Aswegen's bitter words: "For 4399 every battle we pray in Afrikaans and English. We pray to God to win them. English pray to God to win us. If we win, it is God's doing. But if we lose, it was the superior force, or some other excuse, but never, oh never, that God might have chosen his English children's side. " What reply man? Because in war there are no real winners and losers 4399 do not. Not on the battlefield. There are only victims and those who live with the scars of what they have experienced and seen.
For the first time someone had the courage 4399 to tell the other side of the story. The story all know, is the story of the brave farmers against the cruel English battle, resisting against all odds in the English superior force, until the English began to "play dirty" and chased the farmers' wives and children in concentration camps and the farms burned down and killed the animal.
Hensoppers (and joiners) were curse words. Considering not only one of those if you are a staunch, patriotic 4399 farmer is. All die your children and your wife like animals in a camp somewhere. Not even thinking about the place that you have built together. We Africans are so proud that sometimes stupid stupidity-border.
This movie would have never made it to the screen in South Africa 50 years ago. Then Afrikaner rubbed shiny and served in the name of our nation. " I know that our country does not look good today, but why remind that shine of an Afrikaner nation me so much to Hitler? One thing that the 'old' 4399 and 'new' South Africa have in common is that they are so easy to rewrite history to suit the political self-interest.
In Traitors' are the main characters actually the anti-heroes. They are a much maligned 4399 family. They're henshoppers. Farmers who have decided to be more part of the war against the English. Farmers with their head has made a rational decision, because they already have seen the writing on the wall for the Boer republics and were not prepared to their wives and children to sacrifice for something that is not feasible is. They sign an oath of neutrality and return to their farms when. Thousands of them. And then there are the other farmers decided to punish them. Laws be changed overnight so that refusal 4399 to fight not only more is punishable by a fine, but with the death penalty. And so do we Africans once again God against each other.
This film makes one disillusioned behind. This pick your proud African-ness under your feet and makes you think about when it is really necessary to make war. It is true that every people want to be free to govern themselves, 4399 but at what point do you draw the line fight for that freedom, or give in to peace. The film is essentially not only on the ABO, but also about the fine line between 'right' and 'wrong'. As a citizen rightly said to General de la Rey: "Treason looks different every time from a different angle from. I am a citizen of the colony and I are currently working to commit treason because I'm here with you fighting. But between you, I am a respected person. "
The book is based on Boereverraaiers written by Andrew Blake. Today I book for me to buy, because I want to know more. Let me now but the way through with this wound, it cut open to the bone.
Of course, this film controversial and there will be voices crying out we Africans are already degraded. This is another (after all these years) is still a raw part of our history. The English were bastards, yes. But how many women and children could our farmers have saved if they had been less stubborn? Could history might have looked very different? We in any case, the Anglo-Boer war lost. What if ...
Too late now. 110 years too late. Maybe it's just not too late to learn that there may also be a statue was to be for the man who has set his family over his country. We Africans all day sitting abroad over the new South Africa looks like he looks, they are not too hensoppers not? They should not be charged with high treason, measured by the standards of 1902 not? Or they had the right to leave their homeland and to "lay down their arms" because of their families' safety?
We who are left behind, they may not criticize,