War Dance

Ok so there is a new movie coming out called War Dance. The other night as one of our training sessions, our bosses were able to get the director of the movie to burn us an early copy of the movie to we could see the movie as a group. The movie is the story of a group of Ugandan children living in a displacement camp. It shows the day to day activity of the children and how the war in Uganda had affected their life. Each child represents a different hardship that has been inflicted as a result of the war. The children face so many harsh realities every day, but they are still able to find joy. Their joy comes through their time of singing and dance at school. Every year there is a national sing and dance competition in the capitol city. The children are determined to go to the competition and win it. I am not going to ruin the end of the movie for you but for me the movie was just very refreshing. It is a really heavy documentary but the film makers were able to capture the weight of the situation and turn it into a beautiful story in spite of the tragedy at hand. I feel like dealing with the situation in Uganda day in and day out, sometimes we miss the idea that the people in Uganda are just as human as anyone else around the world, almost like sometimes in humanitarian work you miss the capability and intelligence of the people living in these devastated areas. It is eerie to see a Ugandan children walking around talking trash about how they are going to beat another school in the completion. It just makes it soo real; like this could be any American kid living in a displacement camp in fear for their life every day. I really give the people living in areas of conflict like this a lot of credit for how well they deal with such grave tragedies. I really don't know how myself or any other American would respond to this kind of treatment. I highly recommend everyone going to see this movie when it comes out, it might just change the way you view the world.