Tears of the sun is a political inclined movie I so much love because it involved my country, although the protagonists soldiers who fought in it were not from my nations but the main conflict was about my country. A rescue mission for a single person turned into the liberation of a lot more people.
The compassion, the love that cut across race and sacrifice made to save people in a strange land was what made the movie worth it salt and endeared it to me. It was the rescue of a politically marginalized people from genocide and the rescue of the child of an assassinated president.
A civil war broke out in Nigeria and the Moslem Fulani/Hausas rebelled against the Christian Igbo president and embarked on wrecking havoc on the Christian Igbos. Killing the president and his entire family save for his son who they kept hunting.
Men from the U.S Navy SEAL were sent to extract a U.S citizen from the civil war torn Nigeria and when they got to the mission house where she works, she refused to leave without here patients.
The leader of the Navy SEAL, lieutenant Waters called his hierarchy and agrees to take those who can walk along with them.
After the had walked up to the extraction point, the Lieutenant force the U.S citizen, Dr. Lena into the chopper and took off leaving the refugees stranded and at the mercy of the rebels. At they fly over the mission house, they saw that it has been attacked and and it inhabitants massacred.
Feeling guilty about leaving the mission house unprotected, the Lieutenant ordered the chopper back to where he left the refugees and loaded as much of them as the chopper could carry and decided to escort the remainders on foot to the nearby Cameroonian border.
While passing through all these troubles and in the process of searching for a traitor, they found out that there was the son of the late president among them and he was also the the only surviving heir to the throne of his tribe, the Igbos. Now they knew why the rebel Hausa soldiers have not given up on chasing them.
Well at the end, the Navy SEAL lost some of their men but where able to save the refugees and the late president's son.
This dedication to protecting the lives of people who should not have been their responsibility made me sober and my heart went to these beloved and selfless soldiers. I watch the movie almost every month.
All images are screenshots from the movie