http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1181589,00.html
I remember back in High school the entire school got to go see Schindler's List for free. It was heralded as one of the most important films ever made.
I skipped out on it. Why? Because victim mentality is not my thing. Yes it happened, yes it's horrible, if we bothered to actually understand why it happened in the first place, then that would be important knowledge. But we don't, and a movie that worships the average Jew's victim complex reliving something over and over again as an identity, instead of wearing one's actions and accomplishments as their identity is both stupid and destructive.
This movie however looks at heros. It identifies that which the United States (the western world in fact) has lost and shows it for everything that it is. This is about man at his finest moment. Knowing everything intellectually, being terrified, and having to make a decision. And instead of running away, standing tall and fighting back even though you know that you're likely going to lose your life. There was a time were someone running away would have been unheard of. And it was those men that created the wonders that we live in today. It was their foundation that supports our cowardly society now and allows it to continue to run away and run away.
But these men and women used their intellect and overcame terror and fought back with their lives and in the process saved many more, and more importantly, showed the world that occasionally that which makes Americans great still exists. Everyone should not only want to see that, but want to see that kind of heroism over and over again.
I know I will be there. And likely be crying at the end in worship of those people's greatness and for what we have lost.