I don’t expect this discussion to be finished tonight, not even this week.
For background, I just watched it for the first time all the way to the end. It took courage for me because I don’t like the battle scenes, blood and gore.
But I did see so many correlations to our forefathers fighting the American Revolution, and even the Civil War.
I’m left with William Wallace’s war cry …”FREEDOM”!
So what does that really mean?
Freedom to chose a product on Amazon that is most likely made outside America, or freedom to express yourself as an individual without persecution? Or freedom from anyone telling you that you must follow their lead so you can “win”…
There are so many thoughts to reflect on from watching this movie.
I would like others who have seen the movie to give their thoughts.
There were liberties taken with the movie when compared to historical context. But the underlying theme of the movie was freedom comes at a cost. At a certain threshold freedom becomes more important that security.
More precisely the point that Wallace's character made throughout the movie was what happens when so called promises are broken or assurances are only temporary?
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Benjamin Franklin.
I saw that in the movie. And that is how I see our elected officials betraying us now.
Zigackly fren, the problem I had, is that the story was out of context. The concepts are certainly worth exploring, but not at the cost of glorifying William Wallace.
Maybe the script-writers should have done that in a pre-French or American Revolution setting not a medieval one.
WW just did not have the philosophical bent TBH.
However, I agree with your analysis that freedom is higher than security, as a concept that was crafted in that movie.
In my opinion, this cannot be made black-an-white as a concept: Freedom at what cost? For example, Is your child walking to school freedom? On the one side, the security of a peaceful society offers that freedom. Most people now have to drive their children to school, because it is not safe to let them walk. bullying, child-trafficking, snatching etc. So, that is not freedom, when letting them walk in a safe neighborhood was. On the other hand, school is a prison-sentence for the crime of being born. Not freedom at all, and potentially bound up with all sorts of indoctrination from evil actors. In a supposedly free society, we cannot expect that groomers will not take hold of our children. Can you see what I mean?