Band of Brothers

I always thought that i have this man trapped in my body. Cos i used to aspire to be a fighter jet pilot and i love war shows. Otherwise i must be a sadist =P

Thankfully for this long weekend otherwise i may not have the chance to watch Band of Brothers in a short span of 1 or 2 days. Though the effect wasn't as traumatizing when i first watched it 2 years ago, it still tugged many cords in my heart.

I like the story. It wasn't "bang bang" or bombing all the time. They featured a couple of the characters in depth. The Officer - Lt Winters who's good @ tactics & leading, the mind & soul of Eazy Company; the pacifist - Blithe; the Medic - Eugene (he seems to be using Tourniquet every episode!) and the outstanding first Sergeant - Lip. The most heart wrenching part for me? When they discover the prisoner concentration camp.

The whole 10 episodes were full of irony, twist and turns. It gave a pretty realistic picture. 1 minute you were talking to the person, the next, he got blasted in his head right in front of you. I asked myself, how does one pick himself up and continue fighting as though it didn't happen?

How helpless will one feel? If the best friend you have come to know and rely on for the past few years, got shot in his neck and there's nothing you can do, with bullets flying all over your head but to see him die?

How numb will you get? When all you see everyday are dead bodies, bloody open wounds, lots of people you've got to save and to have perhaps half of them dying on you?

How depressing will it be? To see debris everywhere and dead bodies all stacked together, and maybe some familiar faces were among the stack?

Will one be able to think rationally and fight in the midst of the battlefield raining with bullets?

How detach can you be? When you breathe, see and live around death all the time?

How will one feel? To walk out of the war with a mangled part of your body?


In war, you never know what to expect.

Lt Winters said something like "Even if you have not been hit, somehow you will still emerge from the war with scars one way or another, which is why the men of Eazy Company have this special bond." =)
Personally, i thought with what they had gone through, with those "scars", it could actually make them feel like a complete person. Depending on how you see it.

But that was world war 2 - more than 50 years ago, if there's gonna be a world war 3, I doubt many will get to see tomorrow. Heard rumors from the guys who have been through army, as well as acquaintances that the warfare today is inhumane. Biological warfare is for one. If there's going to be a war, it better be for a good clause, though i also believe violence is not the way out. Quoting 1 of the lines in the show when they found out Hitler committed suicide, "He should have kill himself 3 years ago!!! (b4 he even started the stoopid war)"

I'm slipping into a slight "depression", just like 2 years ago and just like Pi who watched it last week. Not really a depression, but to feel the show and to think.