God Grew Tired of Us

Let's face it; there are a lot of countries in the world. Most of them we think nothing of except for the stereotypes and images we project. Iraq for one is a country we pay a lot of attention to; we know their situation and we are trying to change things"¦of course it's all a joke but we have given them our acknowledgement, and our super power nation controls which countries get their fifteen seconds in the media.

So how would anyone know much about Sudan, a country in Africa who faced civil war twenty years ago and changed the shape of millions of lives. It was a war that split families apart and burned down homes killing all children regardless of age. The government wanted all boys dead, or at least sterile. It was some 27,000 male villagers that fled their hometown and embarked upon a five year journey to safety; walking to Ethiopia and ending up at a refugee camp in Kenya where only 12,000 remained; they would spend all of a decade stuck between going home or surviving in Kenya where they were supported with a simple education and small amounts of food.

It was ten years after they arrived in Kenya where America decided to shelter a select group in various parts across the country. Some went to Phoenix, others Pittsburgh and Syracuse. Now these refugees who spent their whole lives without electricity were about to be introduced to the 21st century.

We follow a couple of these Sudanese where we now have a good background on their heartbreak and we watch them get on a plane, and from that moment their lives change forever. They eat sticks of butter and they wonder why the sanitized napkin taste soapy, as they step foot on a moving contraption and nearly tumble on themselves as they have just set foot on their first escalator.

They discover their new homes where they will be living, but soon after they become homesick as America's culture shock isn't so forgiving. They begin to question our ways; how we work and have no time for family, how we seem not so embracing to our fellow neighbor, and they wonder what our Christmas tree means and who Santa is if he isn't in the Bible.

They become a perspective we don't see in our own land, but most of all they become hard working citizens of our country who made it through some of the toughest times man has faced, overcoming severe famine and disease to actually live through a brutal civil war and to be now working in the U.S.

The documentary is an epic story of real people we would normally know nothing about; it follows them through years of struggle to some of the most glorified days any of them could have dreamed. It's got

a little bit of everything, and what makes this film stand out was the brighter side of things and how normally you only see the drama.

The way the film starts is hard to believe you would be smiling a few minutes later; it's an educational experience for both the viewer and subject. It's a focus of people I would never have the slightest clue on who they are, but after watching this documentary I not only know a little but about them, I actually care.

Movie Grade: A