Airlift

Pushing the envelope beyond the illusions of an identity

I could not miss Oskar Schindler in Airlift. Schindler, who liked the extra sheen in his suit and a hedonist, went on to save 1200 people who worked for him from the Nazis during World War 2.

Much as I was bowled over by the protagonist, I think the masterstroke, was to accommodate, the Kuwaiti stowaway, as a part of the Airlift.

Does it really matter if it is a Kuwaiti, Iraqi, Pakistani or an Indian, a human life is a human life. 

A human's ability to empathize with another human being and bail the person out of trouble, transcending narrow boundaries of nationality and religion, is the sign of greatest maturity.

I just could not resist, remembering the a most poignant scene from Constant Gardner. As Rachel Weisz looses her baby during delivery and is in extraordinary personal grief, she sees that a black lady next to her has delivered a baby and is dead. She spontaneously feeds the black child.!!!!

Our man Ali(not sure about his name) in Airlift, despite his personal grief of having lost his newly wed, gets a stowaway on board, as his own wife, 

This just pushes the envelope beyond the illusions of an petty identities that seem to ever mutate into shapes that we sometimes cannot even imagine.

God help us all be humans.