Lie To Me

Spring break is drawing to an end, and I was thinking what to write in my journal five. One movie named comes into my mind, which I watch it with my friend during the spring break. The movie is about two brothers, Tommy returning from prison, Sam heading as a Marine to Afghanistan. Sam is a good father, a good husband and a good son. He is the proud of the whole family. However, Tommy doesn’t have a job, and he was set down as being put into jail. However everything changed when Sam comes back from the battlefield after abducting by the terrorist. Sam becomes strange, and he doesn’t like the Sam before. He makes everyone surrounding feel nerves, even his two daughters afraid of him. He looked guilty and uneasy, but nobody knows what happened. He doubts everything, even his beautiful wife and his brother.
I still remember one scene clearly; although it’s not the main point the movie wants to tell us. In this scene, the heroines Grace made a decision that totally different with what I was thinking. This different decision makes me think about myself, maybe I was wrong sometimes. The decision is telling the truth, when her husband Sam comes back from Afghanistan with insecure feeling, and ask her what happen to her and his brother Tommy. She actually tells him that she did kiss with his brother, but that’s it. At that time, I was thinking:” Come! Don’t tell him. If you don’t tell him, and he will never know this. The truth will push your relationship to the end.” If I were her, I will never tell him, I will lie to him that nothing happened. This is kind of white lie in my mind. The truth could bring hurt; however telling a white lie can produce a better outcome. Of course I chose the lie. This kind of thinking of mine changed. Grace makes me realized that lies can never changes fact. If you love someone, you should trust them that they can understand you and your mistake. You should to believe the power of the truth. The ending of the movie prove this point of view. Sam trust her wife Grace and his brother Tommy, and tell them he killed his comrade-in-arms just for back to home.
It also recalling one sentence in mind that a lie begets a lie till they come to generation. It means if you telling a lie and you have to tell a string of lies for it. Don’t tell a lie, because it will make you uneasy. Trust the power of the truth!