I am one person

Watched The Odyssey by Andrei Konchalovsky today on Hallmark. It was pretty good since I hardly watch any movie aired on Hallmark LOL. It wasn't as "fake" or "cheap" as I had thought it to be when I first saw it. Actual gory scenes and blood everywhere : totally ok with me lol. I saw a few familiar faces like Vanessa Williams as Calypso, Christopher Lee as Tiresias, Eric Roberts as Eurymachus (why is he always playing the bad guy?). And also people I thought who looked familiar but weren't. I thought Odysseus was Jean Reno but it turned out to be Armand Assante (hey at least he's French) and I thought Penelope was Alyssa Milano but it was Greta Scacchi. They did it pretty well too for a rather small budget movie if you ask me. They got the music right, the clothes and the customs of ancient Greeks pretty spot on. I was and still am a Greek mythology geek D; even sounds funny when you say it.

And then I watched a very very sad episode of Oprah (still on the Hallmark channel). It was about the whole idea of intolerance of other people because they're different like racism, homophobia, and all that stuff. Then there was a story about a woman who was a Jew who lived in Poland in the time of the Holocaust. We all know it's hell if you're in that position. Her whole family was moved to a ghetto for the Jewish and then her father was killed by gas chamber in a concentration camp in Krakow. She was handpicked by the famous Amon Goeth (if you've seen Schindler's List) to become a slave in his house. He would slap her and call her names and do unimaginable things to her. And then, there was another woman who did not know who her father was (in a sense of what he was doing to all those people) and when she was invited by Steven Spielberg himself to watch the movie, she knew straight away that the character that Ralph Fiennes played onscreen was her father Amon. She hated Spielberg and everything he stood for and refused to listen to his explanation and reasons. Finally she accepted that Amon Goeth was indeed her father.

The two women met up and went back to Krakow together. The scene of them crying in front of the memorial to the innocent nameless Jews completely tore me apart. They also went back to the house where Amon lived. Thank god no one was around; I was crying like a baby. The Jewish lady (I feel so shite I can't remember her name) started to yell at Monika because Monika told her that she had been told lies about her father and that he killed the Jews because he had no choice. "You need to forget all of that because it is just rubbish! He killed us because we were Jews! Simple as that!" and all Monika could do was cry and and nod. Of course she forgave her and it was not her fault that Monika's father was a monster. She just wanted her to know how she felt and how much hatred was in her father to simply kill people without a thought. He himself was responsible for thousands of lives everyday. You cannot pinpoint a single race of people and say "they're all bad". Amon Goeth was an unspeakable monster but Oscar Schindler was also a saviour for those who had no voices and gave them hope that some good still existed in times where nothing but pain, death and despair was all that hung in the air.

I watch too many movies @____@