Charlie Wilson War Movie

Helicopters shooting innocent kids and adults, what a disaster! It was the 1980’s; Charlie Wilson was a Texas congressman. The movie starts out him in a stage then sitting in a hot tub, with bunch of naked woman, having drinks. There was a television showing Afghanis being invaded by Russians, telling him to rise up the volume, so he can hear it better. Throughout the movie, Charlie Wilson is a congressman who always has a glass of scotch whiskey in his hand, representing the district of Texas that gets involved in the war that was ongoing on in the Middle East. Watching this film, I see a congressman who gets heavily involved with politics. Charlie Wilson was a very bold person in the movie. One day Charlie gets urged by a Houston socialite Joanne Herring to visit Pakistan to meet President Zia. In the beginning of the meeting, Charlie is not really aware of what’s going on until President Zia tells Charlie to go visit the Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan to see what kind of disaster those people are seeing every day. It definitely opens my eyes and it opened Charlie’s eyes. A truck comes to bring food and people were fighting over it. You can see many afghans were dying from soviet Helicopters. This movie is an example of heroes who are willing to help out even people out of their country. You would think that Charlie is a congressman out of a little part of Texas, who talks the talk, but doesn’t walk the walk and can’t really do much, but you realize how quickly things change when you know powerful people. First of all, you got to give credit to Joanne for motivating Charlie in the first place, because without her, it would have been a different story. Also, when he sees the hurt and hungry Afghans in the refugee camps, it sparks up a flame in him for his existing hatred towards the Russians. There was another person that came into the picture of Charlie’s life by motivating him by the name of Gust, who was a CIA member trying to partner up with Charlie.