I really love movies that are about rebel groups, fighting against the bigger aggressor. Even better when it's about real survival stories, like this one was; World War II, the hero of the movie Tuvia Bielski is Jew, who helped saved over 1200 Jews by hiding out in the forests against the Germans. The movie depicted the constant dangers and hardships the group had to fight through; the winter cold, constantly being hunted, food, internal conflicts etc. and how Tuvia was shaped into a awesome leader. It's quite a good movie, I recommend it when you're bored in the holidays.
Anyway, I wanted to focus on theme leadership in this movie. Being a leader is something I always both aspired to and at the same time, did not want to become. It's defined as the ability in a person to lead, guide or/and direct, but it can be so much more depending on the situation.
Once in a movie, there was a few select men felt that they deserved more food because they were the ones that risked their lives to gather it. They forcefully took more food, despite resistance from others. Tuvia had to somehow defuse it, and punished them by giving them half rations. The issue rose again, but this time the men went a step further by using force to subdue a few loyal followers. Tuvia simply shot the leader of the group.
Now my thought at the moment is whether or not at this point, did Tuvia become a tyrant? True, the men were wrong to use force, but they weren't particularly in the wrong to request more food. But if Tuvia allowed them more food, would some other of the camp request more food, leading into a food crisis. Morale would drop with less food, and people would be forced to desert the camp.
I'm very keen to keep in mind that this perspective was shown from a movie point of view, so it might've not kept all the realism in the situation. Tuvia was probably not the awesome leader he was in the movie, but no doubt he did perform some great acts to save those lives.
might come back to this later,
teoh
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