Yesterday, I was so blessed to get an opportunity to spend some time with a great friend of mine Jodie. It is wonderful to get to spend time with her because her experience here in Las Vegas is so similar to mine. Both choronologically and experientially as well. She moved here from England with her family a few weeks after my husband and I moved here. This is her first move away from her "homeland" and so we have a lot in common. We met in the Temporary Housing so we also dealt with the challenges and frustrations of living in a one bedroom studio apartment for several weeks with a family.
We enjoy spending time together so it was nice to get an opportunity to hang out yesterday. We haven't gotten a chance to do so in a long time so we had a lot of catching up to do.
She was very flexible and accomodating so I was able to get a lot done and have a lot of fun. Ate some lunch, ran a lot of shopping errands, and even got to see a movie.
The movie we ended up seeing was GREEN ZONE with Matt Damon. Wasn't the planned movie but with the time we had available due to the fact everything I was doing took way too long we decided to see this one. I wasn't too disappointed as a lot of people said it was a great movie.
It was such a great movie for so many reasons. It had a lot of "cliffhanger" moments and Jodie probably thought I was going to have a siezure or something because I could not sit still. I can't stand "not knowing" and I have something in mind I want to happen so when it doesn't I of course get nervous. This movie of course is a military based plot taking place during the Iraqi war. This movie hits close to home as my husband was deployed much of the time we were over there. Some of it thankfully, was before we were a couple. I was impacted by all the difference strategies and government conspiracies. The plot challenged the reasons and bad intentions when it came to invading Iraq looking for those weapons of mass destruction.
I enjoyed the movie quite a bit because it showed the very humanistic side of the Iraqi people. Showing a side to that part of the country that the masses here in America don't get to see. My young nephew served several months over there during this conflict and came back with many pictures of the Iraqi people welcoming them with open arms. If there was a real strong point in this movie it was this aspect. Granted it wasn't for lengthy periods of time because it was an action movie so a lot of guns, violence and blood. However, there are glimpses of this reality and I was very grateful that the director allowed this in the edit. People sometimes only believe what they see on tv, hear on the radio or read in a magazine. The media is a powerful source of influence in this world and sometimes its just nice when its used to "help" support our troops who are serving overseas and domestically rather than oppose even though they "say" they support. I have a loud and clear message for those liberals controlling the medias content that gets fed to us. You can not say in one side of your mouth, "we shouldn't be over there!" and the other side say, "but we support our troops." Its impossible.
I'm just saying......
Sorry, but this movie obviously hits home because now that I'm married to one of those troops makes it more real.
Have a great week everyone!
And if you get a chance to get out and enjoy yourself with a movie. Consider this one! You might like it as much as I did!
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