Black Hawk Down

Black hawk down is the military term for a helicopter that crashed. Black Hawk Down is about an attempt by Americans to take control the the city where one of the opposing leaders is. While attempting to capture the city, two American helicopters go down. You're probably thinking "Wow, two helicopters down? That's it?" That's what I thought while I watched it in the beginning. We often take into little consideration that two helicopters going down can have a great affect on the war.

The little things such as two helicopters going down in a war could be devastating. After the two "hawks" went down, the U.S. military wanted to rescue the pilots and soldiers in those helicopters. They crash deep in the city which is overrun by many violent Somalian soldiers. All these things were happening at once. Left and right, there was always some sort of loud noise. Eventually the group that was supposed to rescue the pilots made it, but some of them were dead because in a war you can't automatically guarantee someone's going to live. I think that's what I learned from this movie. Throughout the movie I kept hoping that my favourite character would live and not die.

Black Hawk Down also had a tone of brotherhood. Throughout the movie they kept saying "No man left behind." There was a specific scene where one of the pilots in the helicopters still in the air wanted to set up a perimeter around the crashed helicopter. It shows that war indeed does change a man.