warfare...

You know I never wanted to watch movies that are action-driven, intense and thrilling or that needs my limited brain cells to work overtime. What i want in a movie is one that makes me laugh and one that makes my other side (happy/arty/creative if i may say) comes out. I mean work's drying my poor brain cells and I'm thinking so much these days on implementing new procedures, enhancing systems and training my colleagues that enough is enough. I need a break and be relax after work or during my leave.

But after watching Red Cliff today, which is quite a "heavy" epic movie, i found my love once again for "thinking" movies. What made me felt through the film, was the admiration I had for those who lived in the past. With no technology and resources, the war craft was amazing and techniques were smart. They had so little, but they fought great intelligent wars after wars. The strategies, types of equipments and military techniques/formations are not what you could find on PS3 or any online games. Never could one imagine how war was fought then, their scholars must be a 100 times better than the scholars serving the nations now. Chu-Ge-Liang would equate to our Minister of Defense now except that he is an extinct specie in terms of war fare. Are humans now using less of our brain cells as compared to our ancesters?

If we had remain complacent, there would be no advancement. But with advancement, what's left of us...really..?