Bodyguards & assassins

I bought this VCD for CNY viewing for my aunts.
They didn't have time to see it as they were too busy cooking, eating pomelo and chatting nine to the dozen.

So I brought it back to watch it myself.
I was rather interested in it, it has Donnie Yen!

And after watching it, I kind of felt rather apprehensive.

Basically the movie is about Dr Sun Yat-sen, a revolutionary from China who lead China to a new revolution by bringing the Qing Dynasty down.

read more about him here.

And throughout the course of revolution, bloodshed and tears are inevitable.

I pondered on the fact that China once had everything they can be proud of.
Here were people sacrificing their lives to bring change to their country and the very fact they are doing it is purely for their nationalism and love for their countrymen.

[Albeit in the film, most of the bodyguards are protecting Dr Sun for other reasons such as filial piety, suicidal, loyalty and etc]

None the less, there were people who did it for the sake of their future generation and general public in the country.

How many of us would do so now in our country and revolt or sacrifice our normative lives to do something like what Dr Sun did?

Very little I tell you. Even I would not want to.
If SG were to be in trouble, the only reasons why most people would stay to fight is because of one thing and that is their family and friends are here.

I would very much like to see an ex patriot SGrean overseas with his family and friends come back to SG in times of war if needed.

I guess times do really change.
And I wonder, what over the course of time instead of bettering us in character, actually made some of us think otherwise.