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I roughly quote a reviewer's comments on this film: "Good movie, but not
one of the years best; couldn't buy the fact that three average guys would
give up 20 million bucks to help out some Iraqi refugees. I would have
taken the gold and given a million to some Iraqi refugee organization to
ease my conscience."
Any comments? - AH
"Whatever joy there is in this world all comes from desiring others to be happy, And whatever suffering there is in this world all comes from desiring myself to be happy."--Shantideva
on the other hand...
"Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires."
--William Blake
therefore...
"Out beyond fields of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
--Jelaluddin Rumi
or to put it in Boomer Language:
"Let me take you down 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields. Nothing is real. And nothing to get hung about." "Ob - la - de , ob - la - da..."
--John Lennon
I heard something this weekend. That the old Greek definition of "Sin" is "unfulfilment". It is walking away from your god-given gift. I haven't seen the film, but it seems that if those men were given the opportunity to use their "gift", their skill in warmaking, for whatever reason (for "good" or "evil") then it would be a "sin" for them to walk away from it. They had no choice but to act. It is the way of the warrior to be impeccable (from the Latin, "not liable to sin"). This is the Buddha nature in all things. The enlightened being walks upright and directly, even into the path of destruction "and yea, I will fear no evil".This is how Jeremiah Johnson gains his final freedom --his path takes him on to forbidden ground, he loses everything he loves in life, he stops caring about his fellow humans, and becomes pure spirit.
They used the gold to bribe their CO to not have them court-martialed and enforce the release of the refugees. I understood the ending to indicate that neither the CO or the three kings got to keep the gold, but taking it from Saddam and saving the refugees bought them promotion (CO), honorable discharge (the three kings), and public adoration as heroes via the media coverage. I think a life sentence in jail or execution is worse than not having 23 million dollars. In the earlier "decision moment" in the film, the gold is almost irrelevant. They have to decide if they are going to go along with the politics, close their eyes, and walk away from a situation in which rebels are facing certain execution by the defeated enemy. As I wrote below, I can't vouch for the reality of this movie, and frankly, I don't really care if it was real or not.
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