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Kingdom of Heaven - Movie Reflection

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I observed the movie entitled “Kingdom of Heaven.” The story focused mostly on Balian, a man who had simple lifestyle in Southern France. When he was left by his child and wife who committed a suicide, he became filled with grief and sought redemption. It was an epic adventure story about the crusades of Christians during 12th century. Balian was a stranger to Jerusalem but he became one of the knights there. The king offered him to marry his sister (Sybila) in order for Balian to take his place after his death, because he wanted to have a good leader to manage the place of the Holy Land, but Balian rejected the offer because of his conscience and respect to the expected husband (Guy) of Sybila. As I watched the film, it made me realized how Christians in the late century fought for their religion. It seemed so sad to know that fighting for their religion most likely meant taking others' lives. They kept on killing people just to invade one’s place. I have thought about what if Christians and Muslims during that century had just fixed that issue in a nice way; there’s no homicide happened, maybe now all of us are at peace. At that time, why did they have to kill people if their main purpose was to expand Christianity? Through their actions, they just destroyed the image of Christians. As what I have observed, Muslims were obsolete, but Christian armies did the first move to have a war against them. The bloody-war where most of the Christian armies died was when Guy took the place of being the King of Jerusalem. Most of his decisions were not for the good but instead to start always a war against Muslims. That was one of the reasons the late king wanted Balian to be the king because he knew the capacity of Balian if he were in the position. The king knew that if Balian was the leader, he would not let Jerusalem struggle. He would protect the Holy Land and the people who were living there. Guy as the king was just profiteering

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