24 March 2017
Journal #2
In the poem “Monologue for Onion” by Suji
Kwock Kim and the short Film “Wait
for me” by Konstantin Simonov. The authors both commentary on human desire and
one's determination in acquiring a goal. According to the poem, "The tears
clouding your eyes as the table fills with husks, cut flesh, all the debris of
pursuit. Poor deluded human: you seek my heart"(line 4-6). Thus,
regardless of the onion’s warnings to stop pursuing the truth so diligently, the
person continues relentlessly peeling and cutting the onion. The tears that try
to fight off the sting in the person's eyes do not slow the person down at all.In
the film, there is also a sense of determination seen as these guys try to beat
the odds and return back to their families. These guys are face with many
tragedy of war, but, that doesn't stop them from wanted to see their love ones
again.Therefore, both the poem and the film demonstrates how resilient is use to
overcome a challenge or pursuit a goal.
As the poem progresses, the tone begins to become
more serious and harsh as the person continues to chop the onion that is making
him/or her cry, and the onion deems the person as an idiot for doing that. According
to the poem, it states "Looking at you, chopping and weeping. Idiot. Is
this the way you go through life" (line 10-11). At the end, the onion
generalizes on how the only thing that awaits the person in the end is his/her destruction
as the author states “blood, and love, a heart that will one day beat you to
death” (line 29-30).Thus, proving that our own human desires would be the cause
of our suffering. However, in the film, the tone gives off much more of a sense
of hopefulness as these guys try to overcome the violence of war. They are both
are truly at war with each other,
and they have no common ground on which they can end the violence. Other than, they are both fighting to stay
alive in order to see their families again.They both have different believes as
they are people on opposite sides. But, that doesn’t matter as they are willing
to put their lives on the line to fight for a cause.Throughout
the film, we are also introduces with a lot of startling and violent images that
we don't get to see in the poem that makes it really realistic for us to know
and understand the devastating effects of war.
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