Quo Vadis, Aida?

The scene that really got me was when Aida was trying to print the fake badges and the guy casually tells her the machine is broken. Then she runs to the commander, only to find out her family’s names have been crossed off the list. When she confronts him, he coldly says he has to follow protocol.

My interpretation is that the commander knew from the negotiations what the Serbs were planning. I think he also knew he was powerless to stop it and took the out the general gave him. Not because he was a coward, as much as I’d like to blame him, but because the situation felt inevitable.

I also look back on the scene where he makes an attempt to save Aida’s husband. By that point, most civilians are already gone. What’s two more people under UN protection? It makes me wonder if principles and protocols can become distractions to the humanity they were meant to protect.

Sometimes I think firm principles become distractions to our humanity when they were intended to be guidelines. A bit ironic. It shows how he tethers the line between human and commander. I think we see this in everyday life. People become managers, police officers, executives, or just stay in the same role long enough that the job starts to shape them. After dealing with enough incompetence, conflict, or difficult people, they grow cynical and stop questioning their own decisions. They say, “The hard decision had to be made,” because it fits a role/character that their mind and environment has trapped them into for so long. You didn’t have to make that decision you chose to because it was habitual. Only thing is you never noticed when that switch between habit and decision was formed.

I was heartbroken and soul broken after watching this

We really need to make a push for a bigger UN military. We have way too many soldiers doing absolutely nothing in random stations across the world. That is the key to world peace I genuinely believe that

The scene that really got me was when Aida was trying to print the fake badges and the guy casually tells her the machine is broken. Then she runs to the commander, only to find out her family’s names have been crossed off the list. When she confronts him, he coldly says he has to follow protocol.

My interpretation is that the commander knew from the negotiations what the Serbs were planning. I think he also knew he was powerless to stop it and took the out the general gave him. Not because he was a coward, as much as I’d like to blame him, but because the situation felt inevitable.

I also look back on the scene where he makes an attempt to save Aida’s husband. By that point, most civilians are already gone. What’s two more people under UN protection? It makes me wonder if principles and protocols can become distractions to the humanity they were meant to protect.

Sometimes I think firm principles become distractions to our humanity when they were intended to be guidelines. A bit ironic. It shows how he tethers the line between human and commander. I think we see this in everyday life. People become managers, police officers, executives, or just stay in the same role long enough that the job starts to shape them. After dealing with enough incompetence, conflict, or difficult people, they grow cynical and stop questioning their own decisions. They say, “The hard decision had to be made,” because it fits a role/character that their mind and environment has trapped them into for so long. You didn’t have to make that decision you chose to because it was habitual. Only thing is you never noticed when that switch between habit and decision was formed.

I was heartbroken and soul broken after watching this

We really need to make a push for a bigger UN military. We have way too many soldiers doing absolutely nothing in random stations across the world. That is the key to world peace I genuinely believe that