Inglorious Bastards

Yesterday I watched Inglorious Bastards, a movie that takes place during World War II. Though it was a Quentin Tarotino film, I saw a connection of the beginning of the movie and Beah's life. If you plan on seeing this movie and don't want it spoiled I suggest you don't read the next part.






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The movie starts off in France, a French dairy farmer, Perrier LaPadite, is outside working when he sees Nazi troops driving towards his house. The Nazi troops come up and introduce themselves, led by Hans Landa, a Nazi detective. Landa and Perrier enter their house and have small talk in French, then Landa switches to English. In English, he explains why he is here. Landa has aquired the nickname, "The Jew Hunter" and is investigating a rumor that LaPadite is hiding Jews in his home.

During their conversation, the camera pans downwards below the floorboards of where the men are sitting to show that the Jews are conceling themselves below the floorboards. Unknowingly to the people, Landa knows that they are hiding and tells LaPadite that he will get his troops to come in and kill them. The soldiers come and start firing at the floor, killing all of them except for one girl, who manages to escape. Landa aims his gun at the girl, but spares her life.



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I found this interesting because we've been talking about Beah running away and about what we would do in such a situation. The girl in the movie is shown throughout the movie hiding her identity as a Jew to the Nazis. Beah hides himself from the Rebels, hoping to not get captured or get killed. It's a shame that decades after World War II, people are still hunting down others and killing them for no reason. In this generation we hear stories about child soldiers, or those who ran away from wars in Africa, it's almost like the holocaust of our time.

Reading Beah's book is scary in the fact that his experience happened recently, and people are going through what he went through today.