Movies & its impact

Of late I started catching up with movies that I wanted to watch in the past. I watched one of them "Motorcycle Diaries", this week and the other one is a usual flick - After the sunset (Pears Brosnen & Salma Hayek, seen for the later). The former one is a spanish language film made in south america about "Che" Guevera - the rebel behind Cuban revolution and assasinated in 1967 with the help of CIA. Movies / literary works such as this one that shows the "making of" the personality interests me a lot. The book E=mc2 by David Bodanis is one such thing about the formula in itself.

The dialogues "what made the invaders to destroy this to build this" in the ruins of machu pichu (Peru) and another one "the indegenous people knew astrology, science, medicine but the invaders had gun-powder" reflect on the early days of his revolutionary mind. This is in fact true in the case of India too. So what made the indeginous people lose the lead to the euorpeans is the gun-powder. But in the course of time, what they lost is themselves! Both the Indians as well as the south american natives identified things with nature, understood the meaning of life and was once a fledgling civilization. They lost their culture to the colonial powers, started thinking their knowledge is always inferior to the colonials over period of time and lost themselves! Its a cycle of thousands of years and what goes up, comes down and that is the only thing that is constant.