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oanjaYou know what the worst thing about seeing documentaries is? It's that feeling of helplessness that comes with it. That and loosing any hope that I had for the human race...
What a nice and positive way to start an entry, right? ^^;
I saw three documentaries today in the local movie theatre. Two of them were made by Mexican's and one was from Israel.
The mexican movies were about the justice systems, in Mexico and in the United States. The Israeli was about a check-point in Jerusalem.
In the first one a Mexican man had been convicted for murder, although he was innocent and the documentary was about these layers who were working to get him a re-trial. Long story short they were able to get the man free even though in Mexico 95% of the cases that go to court lead to convictions. Also, a fun fact: In Mexico you have to prove that you are innocent, so there you are presumed guilty until proven otherwise and not innocent until proven guilty.
93% of people charged with a crime never see a judge and are never even told what they are accused of. The system is completely corrupt and it seems like an almost impossible to see a way to change the situation. Prisons are full of poor people who don't have money to hire themselves layers. The man who they managed to free shared a jail cell with 20 other people!!!
The mafia or organized crime has it's hands in everything and it's almost impossible to get any serious criminals convicted or even arrested.
So that was completely awesome to watch. But it gets better...
In the second movie they filmed and Mexican woman who had come to the States looking for work. Her job was to be a baby sitter to other Hispanic women while they were at work. One boy died while in her care, and she was charged for murder. The documentary followed her during the trial.
The boy (almost two years old) choked on some paper towels, the woman panicked and went for help to her neighbour who called 911. The police and later the ambulance personel both gave the boy cpr and mouth-to-mouth, which would have only pushed the paper deeper into the boys throat. But who get's the blame? The illegal alien, a young poor Mexican woman.
What I really don't get is why she was accused of murder? To me it made no sense, it just seemed like one of those crazy things that happen sometimes, and accident. Well the jury didn't share mine or the film crews view but found her guilty and gave her a sentence of 99 years. (the woman had two kids of her own, one to whom she gave birth to in prison, she will never see them again)
Now I was feeling quite sick but there was still one more documentary left.
The last one was about a check-point in Jerusalem and about this women's group that watches the check-points all over Israel and documents what happens in them (they are Israeli women, Jewish and pretty middle class from what came up from the film) It followed this one check-point from 2002-2008 and how it changed from a temporary check-point into a permanent one and how it became more and more difficult for Palestinians to get from one Palestinian neighbourhood to another. Most of the people crossing had to do it every day to get to work, children to school.
The woman director who was also the narrator told us the viewers how her friends kept asking her why she bothers with the whole thing, they told her that people are tired of hearing about the suffering of the Palestinians and that she should just do something else. The Israeli woman who was at the movie theatre to introduce the film told us that most people who live in Israel (Jewish people) can easily avoid ever seeing a check-point or from even ever meeting Palestinians, even when a check-point is only 15 minutes away from their own neighbourhood. Normal people just don't care and don't want to know what is happening in their own country.
And that is the thing that got to me the worst. Seeing Jewish people treat the Palestinians at the check-point like animals, like scum. It's really easy to draw parallels to Nazi Germany and how ordinary German people turned a blind eye to what was happening to Jewish people and other "enemies of the state"
The whole practise was just creating more bitterness and hatred in the Palestinians. People were loosing their jobs because the check-point made them 1-2 hours late to work time and time again, or how some days people were just turned away, not allowed entry even though they had the right papers. Some men who were interviewed asked that if they aren't allowed to cross from the East Bank to the Jerusalem proper to work they will just go work for Hamas because they have to make money for their family one way or another.
Augh! All the documentaries made my chest hurt. Humans are horrible to each other. =(
Now something a bit lighter to end this thing, even though it's about a serious issue as well (a bit late, I mean prop 8 isn't in effect anymore but I still find it funny)
What a nice and positive way to start an entry, right? ^^;
I saw three documentaries today in the local movie theatre. Two of them were made by Mexican's and one was from Israel.
The mexican movies were about the justice systems, in Mexico and in the United States. The Israeli was about a check-point in Jerusalem.
In the first one a Mexican man had been convicted for murder, although he was innocent and the documentary was about these layers who were working to get him a re-trial. Long story short they were able to get the man free even though in Mexico 95% of the cases that go to court lead to convictions. Also, a fun fact: In Mexico you have to prove that you are innocent, so there you are presumed guilty until proven otherwise and not innocent until proven guilty.
93% of people charged with a crime never see a judge and are never even told what they are accused of. The system is completely corrupt and it seems like an almost impossible to see a way to change the situation. Prisons are full of poor people who don't have money to hire themselves layers. The man who they managed to free shared a jail cell with 20 other people!!!
The mafia or organized crime has it's hands in everything and it's almost impossible to get any serious criminals convicted or even arrested.
So that was completely awesome to watch. But it gets better...
In the second movie they filmed and Mexican woman who had come to the States looking for work. Her job was to be a baby sitter to other Hispanic women while they were at work. One boy died while in her care, and she was charged for murder. The documentary followed her during the trial.
The boy (almost two years old) choked on some paper towels, the woman panicked and went for help to her neighbour who called 911. The police and later the ambulance personel both gave the boy cpr and mouth-to-mouth, which would have only pushed the paper deeper into the boys throat. But who get's the blame? The illegal alien, a young poor Mexican woman.
What I really don't get is why she was accused of murder? To me it made no sense, it just seemed like one of those crazy things that happen sometimes, and accident. Well the jury didn't share mine or the film crews view but found her guilty and gave her a sentence of 99 years. (the woman had two kids of her own, one to whom she gave birth to in prison, she will never see them again)
Now I was feeling quite sick but there was still one more documentary left.
The last one was about a check-point in Jerusalem and about this women's group that watches the check-points all over Israel and documents what happens in them (they are Israeli women, Jewish and pretty middle class from what came up from the film) It followed this one check-point from 2002-2008 and how it changed from a temporary check-point into a permanent one and how it became more and more difficult for Palestinians to get from one Palestinian neighbourhood to another. Most of the people crossing had to do it every day to get to work, children to school.
The woman director who was also the narrator told us the viewers how her friends kept asking her why she bothers with the whole thing, they told her that people are tired of hearing about the suffering of the Palestinians and that she should just do something else. The Israeli woman who was at the movie theatre to introduce the film told us that most people who live in Israel (Jewish people) can easily avoid ever seeing a check-point or from even ever meeting Palestinians, even when a check-point is only 15 minutes away from their own neighbourhood. Normal people just don't care and don't want to know what is happening in their own country.
And that is the thing that got to me the worst. Seeing Jewish people treat the Palestinians at the check-point like animals, like scum. It's really easy to draw parallels to Nazi Germany and how ordinary German people turned a blind eye to what was happening to Jewish people and other "enemies of the state"
The whole practise was just creating more bitterness and hatred in the Palestinians. People were loosing their jobs because the check-point made them 1-2 hours late to work time and time again, or how some days people were just turned away, not allowed entry even though they had the right papers. Some men who were interviewed asked that if they aren't allowed to cross from the East Bank to the Jerusalem proper to work they will just go work for Hamas because they have to make money for their family one way or another.
Augh! All the documentaries made my chest hurt. Humans are horrible to each other. =(
Now something a bit lighter to end this thing, even though it's about a serious issue as well (a bit late, I mean prop 8 isn't in effect anymore but I still find it funny)
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Date: 2010-10-02 06:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-02 06:24 pm (UTC)I can believe that individuals and good but when we are talking about people, a group/nation etc. it's a completely different story. Like they say "joukossa tyhmyys tiivistyy" ja ei vaan tyhmyys vaan myös julmuus ja välinpitämättömyys. Waah~
Yeps, this entry was just bright ray of optimism... xD
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Date: 2010-10-02 06:11 pm (UTC)and that video is just hilarious. Jack Black is awesome :D
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Date: 2010-10-02 06:29 pm (UTC)Yeah it made me smile and Jack Black as Jesus is kind of perfect in a way. =D
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Date: 2010-10-02 06:48 pm (UTC)he makes the role suit him perfectly :D
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Date: 2010-10-03 06:02 am (UTC)Mua ällötti niissä molemmissa ehkä eniten se oikeudenkäynti (siinä ekassa se oli vaan niin wtf? toimistossako nää nyt on??) ja oli niin selvää, että ketään ei kiinnostanut. Ja siinä toisessa se ihana syyttäjä ja sen upeat ei-yhtään rasistiset kommentit...Enkä mäkään ymmärrä miten se tuomittiin murhasta (ja miten niin kaksivuotiaat lapset ei tunge tavaraa suuhunsa?? Sitäpaitsi, se nainenhan sanoi, että se lapsi tuli hänen luokseen ja osoitti kurkkuaan, yes? Tuskin niin olisi käynyt, jos se olisi tehnyt sille lapselle jotain?).
Argh, tulee vaan niin vihainen ja toivoton olo. :/
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Date: 2010-10-03 07:34 pm (UTC)Sanos muuta, ei pysty ymmärtämään tollasta kyllä... =(
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Date: 2010-10-03 05:34 pm (UTC)Isäni laittoi minut lukemaan lehtiartikkelin masennuslääkkeistä viikonloppuna. Eipä ollut sitäkään asiaa tullut ikinä ihan tuolta kannalta ajateltua. En epäile vieläkään etteikö niistä lääkkeistä olisi joillekin oikeasti suurta hyötyä, mutta sen jälkeen tuli taas lievästi sanoen epäilevä mieliala lääkefirmoja kohtaan ja etenkin niiden yhteyksiä lääkäreihin etc. Esim. suomessakin mielenterveyshoitoon pääseminen joissain tapauksissa vaatii että on syönyt mielialalääkkeitä ensin puolivuotta. Ja jossain päin maailmaa ollaan kuulemma menossa uutta trendiä kohden, vauvapsykiatriaa ie. lääkitään vauvaikäisiä... Siinä oli paljon kaikkea mahdollista niiden lääkkeiden vaikutuksista yms... Latasin siinä mainitun dokkarin mutten ole vielä saanut katsottua sitä, jo se lehtiartikkeli jätti aika masentuneen fiiliksen joten en siltä osin odota innolla sen dokkarin näkemistä...
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Date: 2010-10-03 07:41 pm (UTC)No samahan Suomessakin oli just ennen sitä muutosta, että ihmisillä on oikeus saada se halvin lääke, sitä ennenhän lääkäreitä kestittiin lääkefirmojen taholta, että ne määräis just niitten lääkkeitä, mitkä oli sit just niitä kalleimpia jne. Mut joo, eikös USAssa oo jo vauvoille kauneusleikkauksiakin joten en jaksa enää ees ihmetellä tollasta vauvojen lääkintää tms. Kuten sanottu, ihmiskunta on jokseenkin perseestä kokonaisuutena. (positiivisin mielin eteenpäin jne xD)
Katoin muuten tänään sen elokuvan minkä ostin sillo ku kävin sun luona, sen Tom Hardy leffan. Oli muuten tosi hauska, ei ollenkaan nii väkivaltanen ja sekava ku ois trailerin perusteella olettanu. Harmi sinällään, ettei me ehditty sitä kattoo kun olin siellä. =)
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Date: 2010-10-03 07:49 pm (UTC)Ah, vähemmän väkivaltainen on aina plussaa meikäläisestä :D Pitänee pitää mielessä kun tulee mieli kattoa jotain tuon kaltaista. Ja no, senhän jo tietääkin että siinä on ainakin silmänruokaa ^_~
Aloin muuten lataamaan alkuperäistä Star Trekkiä ^^; Katottiin se 2009 elokuva Kannuksessa. Mut nyt olen hyvin hämmentynyt, mie sain sellaisen käsityksen ficeistä ja wikipediasta yms. että Vulcanilaiset ei tykkää tunteiden näyttämisestä, koskettamisesta saati niiden yhdistämisestä julkisella paikalla? o.O Ei ihan siltä näyttänyt tuossa elokuvassa...
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Date: 2010-10-03 07:59 pm (UTC)Siis olihan se sellanen gansteri leffa, mutta Brittiläinen gangsterileffa! Eli minusta jo sen takia paljon parempi. =D Ja sitten se iloinen yllätys, että Tom Hardyn hahmo oli sitten homo, mikä tietysti sitten ilahdutti vielä lisää. ^^
Siis missä se ei näyttänyt sellaiselta? Siinä uudessa elokuvassa vai alkuperäisessä sarjassa? Jos puhut siitä uudesta elokuvasta mä en osaa sanoa siihen Spock/Uhura juttuun mitään, koska se ei vaan käy mulle järkeen... x) (Etkö sä sitten ollu kattonu jo sitä uutta elokuvaa aiemmin? On taas muisti hieman hatara)
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Date: 2010-10-03 08:05 pm (UTC):D Eli vähintäänkin kaksinverroin ilahduttava siis ^_~
Siis siinä uudessä elokuvassa nimenomaan se Uhura juttu. Ja menee aika kauan ennen kuin sen alkuperäisen saan... Ja olen, mehän katottiin se silloin sun kanssa viime kevättalvella. Mutta silloin mä en käytännössä tiennyt (eikä ollut juuri ennakkokäsityksiä yms.) mitään Star Trekistä, enkä kyllä sen puoleen vieläkään, mutta aika iso ero sillain mitä on ficcien puolella tullut vastaan. Mut joo, ihmetytti vain.
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Date: 2010-10-03 08:12 pm (UTC)Joo no onhan siinä Uhura jutussa tietty jotain selittäviä syitä, esim just se et Spock oli emotionally compromised suurimman osan elokuvasta ja sillon varsinki ku se pussaili sitä Uhuraa siellä beaming huoneessa, mut joo... Ei oikein mene jakeluun, että miks ne pistettiin yhteen. Selitin sullekin varmaan sillon ku me katottiin sitä elokuvaa, että oisin mieluummin nähny Uhuran Kirkin kanssa, jos siihen elokuvaan oli pakko kirjottaa tollanen romanssi tms. Koska oikeesti en nää miten Spock ois ruvennu seurustelemaan oman oppilaansa kanssa. Ei vaikuta kovin loogiselta tai eettiseltä. =P Mut joo ei voi mitään...
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Date: 2010-10-03 08:17 pm (UTC):D I guess I agree with your icon~
Mutta, minä myönnän etten silloin oikein tajunnut kun mun mielestä se oli silloin vaan ihan söpö juttu. Noin niinku heteroksi tietty :p Mut joo olet oikeassa noissa kaikissa argumenteissa. Eikä tosiaan edes kahden katsomiskerran jälkeen vielä auennut että Spock oli Opettajan siellä akatemiassa :O Hyvä minä ja täysi ignoretus päällä >.<; Mut joo sitä suuremmalla syyllä tosiaan.
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Date: 2010-10-03 08:24 pm (UTC)Mulle se oli aika wtf jo sillon ekalla kerralla, vaikka en ite sillon tienny yhtään mitään Star Trekistä, mut joo. Se opettaja juttu tulee ilmi siinä kun Spock ja Uhura puhuu siellä hangerissa just ennen lähtöä sinne avaruusaluksille kun Uhura tulee valittamaan Spockille, että miks se ei päässy kanssa Enterprisen kyytiin. Uhura sanoo jotain sellasta, että "Wasn't I your best student?" Ja muistaakseni se tulee myös siinä Kirkin "oikeudenkäynnissä" esiin, vaikka siitä en ole ihan varma. (okei tarpeeks rambletusta sori...)
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Date: 2010-10-03 08:30 pm (UTC)Aaa totta, totta. Tajusin kyllä heti kun luin ton sun kommentin siitä mut olin vaan jotenkin onnistunut ohittaan sen ajattelemisen sillain. Eniten mua ehkä harmittaa siks et ku ne kaikki on mun mielestä tosi kivoja ja mielenkiintosia hahmoja mutta se et kaks niistä on virallisesti yhdessä vähän asettaa rajoja sille miten ajatella asiaa. Ja sori en taas osaa tänään muotoilla ajatuksia tekstiksi sitten millään ^^;
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Date: 2010-10-03 08:45 pm (UTC)Joo siis se just oli hieman outoa, että pitikö ne parittaa jo siinä ekassa leffassa, ku ois minusta tää eka voinu olla vaan silleen hahmojen esittelyyn yms. Eli niinku esim, mitä ne meinaa sen suhteen kanssa tehä siinä seuraavassa elokuvassa?
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Date: 2010-10-03 08:51 pm (UTC)No niimpä, etenkin kun varmasti tiesivät että jos tulee vähänkään menestystä niin tulee jatko-osia... Little Spock-Uhura babies?