Beyond Borders

My friends are probably sick of me going on about this film, but I can't get it out of my head. A bit of blurb - Beyond Borders (2004) stars Angelina Joli as 'Sarah Jordan, a sheltered American socialite living in London. When she meets Nick Callahan (Clive Owen) a rengrade doctor, his commitment to humanitarian efforts in war-torn nations moves her deeply. Driven by her passion for Nick [there has to be a Hollywood element somewhere I suppose] and his life's work, Sarah risks everything to embark on a perilous journey that leads to the most volitile far corners of the earth.'

This is the kind of film that has you in tears in the first ten minutes. It portrays the stark difference between the huge waste that goes on in Western civilisation and the desperate need of people affected by war and famine. How can there be such an awful imbalance in the world? More importantly, what can we do about it?

UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) is featured in Beyond Borders, which led to Angelina Joli becoming a goodwill ambassador for them. You can read her Sudan diaries here. The themes are still playing in my mind weeks after watching this...