Some movies resonate with me so much that it's all I can think about. The first movie to ever do this to me was Blood Diamond. Yes although Leonardo DiCaprio is the main character, the story about the diamond trade and how the people in Sierra Leona are treated (children included -- child soldiers) inspired me to a point that to this day I want to go to Africa.
The most recent movie to do this to me is The Help. After the movie was over I started thinking about how much has changed, but also how little has changed. I understand that the 1960s have gone and passed, but even though there isn't such blatant discrimination as there was back then, the fact that it still exists in 2012 is disgusting. Humans discriminate on every level. In the movie, it was on race. Coloured women were house maids and nannies, and treated like shit to put it nicely. My mom is a housemaid. She busts her butt off working with severe Carpal Tunnel in both wrists, and even just to think of her being treated differently because of that is sickening. Discrimination today is a lot more subtle (in most cases -- not all), but still spreads off into so many branches; skin colour, ethnicity, religion, jobs, income, social status, mental capability, sexuality.
And honestly, so what? So what if you're black, brown, white, hell even be cheetah print if you want to. So what if you're a cashier at Wal-Mart? So what if you've had to be held back in school because of a learning disability? So what if you believe in one God, no God or several Gods? So what if you like men, women or both? Strip it all down, we are all the same inside. We're all the same species, we have the same organs, more or less have the same feelings and if you took everything away; jobs, income, skin colour, religion, ethnicity: no one would be able to tell who was who. We would just be human.
But that's just never going to happen right? Because as human as we are, we're also inhumane. Selfishness, jealousy, all the ugly things sprouting in humans are what destroy us, and really one day I honestly think it'll kill us.
