Beyond borders

Just watched a 2003 film ‚Beyond Borders‘, directed by Martin Campbell and starring Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen. The film reflected the real-life interest of Angelina Jolie promoting human relief work. The film was a box office failure. But it could make some sort of awareness about the poverty and war suffering.

What caught my attention was a small scene where Sarah Jordan (Angelina Jolie) and Dr. Nick Callahan (Clive Owen). Sarah rescued a dying woman and brought to the camp where Dr. Nick Callahan works. She was later operated without giving anesthesia. So Sarah got shocked and questions why she is operated without giving an anesthesia. The following dialogue was very catchy.

Sarah: She is in pain.

Dr. Nick: She is beyond pain.

Sarah: Have you asked her that?

Dr. Nick: Hamadi, ask her?

Hamadi: (after speaking to the lady in her mother tongue). She says she feels the pain of hunger. She says hunger of pain is more than death. She says that you stole her away from death which was lighter than pain of hunger.

This film made me lose my sleep. I did have hunger in life when I was in North India but the pain of hunger is something different. Have you had such a pain of Hunger which is more than death? My request would be not to waste even a pinch of food and also to teach our children not to waste any food only respecting the millions who die without food in Africa and in Asia. I come from a country where one third of the population of 1.27 Billion are below poverty line.

Some days a film inspires more than bible and all scriptures.