"I realize I have stopped thinking about political divides, about freedom fighters or terrorists, about dictators and armies. I am thinking only of the fragility of civilization. The lives the refugees had were our lives: they owned corner shops and sold cars, they farmed or worked in factories or owned factories or sold insurance. None of them expected to be running for their lives, leaving everything they had because they had nothing to come back to, making smuggled border crossings, walking past the dismembered corpses of other people who had tried to make the crossing but had been caught or been betrayed."
— So many ways to die in Syria now: May 2014 - Neil Gaiman
I was genuinely surprised by the happy ending. I didn’t see it coming and it was the sweetest thing. Nobody dies, the dumb and emotionally stunted kid makes some real progress, the movie actually makes a point of showing that a man can learn kindness and compassion from another man and become a better human being. And it’s lovely, really.
