I don't understand why she's getting hate for crying, she was obviously impacted by that man and his choice, just because she's got money does not mean she can't cry for someone, the special thing about humans is that we can imagine our selves in other people's shoes, just because your rich does not mean you lose the ability to cry for others. Has the world really gotten so bad that we criticize people for showing emotion and empathy for others?!
Of course she's emotional, of course she's crying. People who act as well as Cate tend to be emotional and passionate by nature, that's why she is able to portray those traits so well. Not only that but she's an intelligent woman who knows what she is talking about. People talk about situations like these as if they are removed from them, which show a lack of imagination. Actors naturally have alot of imagination and intelligent people are able to really empathise with situations that are intense and painful, they know the truth of how terrible things can get, they have the ability to understand, to put themselves in others shoes.
Incredible human being, not only intellectual and emotionally outstanding, she shows compromise to her words. She's made one of the best careers in a business usually notable for its shallowness, and has built that career with dignity. Just because someone is well know or a "celebrity" doesn't means she's not a citizen in a society or excludes her from having a POW and is not allowed to support a cause. What a role model this woman is.
the topic is about the refugees of Syrian if you people asking her help for each continent and a country that’s utterly insane she is not God for pete sake
Where are the billionaires people on this earth? What are they doing with their money? Party here party there party everyday everywhere? And keep their money until on their deathbed without even thinking to help others who are in needs? Billionaires people are useless and not even human.. Money is their god.
THE LOVE!!! AND FEELINGS!!! {INSIDE A HUMAN HEART!!!}...IS OFTEN THE SAME BASED ON THE VALUES?... OF A LIFETIME!!!... TO BE LIVED? THE STORY!!!.... THAT YOU TELL ABOUT ANOTHER?...IT IS THE STORY OF... {A FAMILY!!!} A CHOICE TO BE MADE?...AH HA? {YOUR SUITCASE?} OR {YOUR}.... {CHILDREN?} Watching This?.... CAN BRING YOU TO TEARS¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HAVE... CHILDREN!!!
you are a horrible human, if you had seen what war zones are like especially for children you wouldn't have said that but since you are spoiled and safe in your little city you have no empathy, shame one you.
Aqui en mi pais, la ULTRADERECHA COLOMBIANA, ha utilizado durante muchos años, los mismos metodos de violencia, han torturado,violado,masacrado, desplazado a millones de Colombianos de poblaciones muy pobres, que nunca se han podido defender y ahora que por primera vez tenemos un presidente que si ayuda a esos pobres, lo quieren sacar del camino.GRACIAS SRA BLANCHETT por pensar en los menos favorecidos. DIOS LA BENDIGA
I respect your opinion but did you know that California has the highest homeless population on US? Can you help them? Some are sick, drugs, unfortunate situations etc. we have been crying for them too. Let's take care of our backyard and later move to neighbor's yard.
How can the person who per chance has been born 10000 miles away rather than next to oneself have less of a claim on having his or her pain diminished by you? If one just pictures the situation of that man running with his suitcases and his children, how could one say to him that one will first attend to other people and later come back to him? But I do see what you mean. If it were so that one could only either help the person who happens to be born in one's own country or the person in another country, if there was a kind of limit to how much good one could do, I would agree. But I don't think there is such a cap. At least I want to think so. Wouldn't it be horrible if one would truly have to say to that poor man 'sorry I can't help you', if one had to see him in such pain and turn one's back? I think it's these kinds of hard questions that drive people into what I guess some people would call 'liberal naivity' and I don't want to be one of those who cannot face reality and instead lose themselves in their pious fantasies because in that way no one is helped. At the same time, I think, considering the pain of that man, one neither has the right to instantly dismiss his case, to kind of regret for an instant how things stand and then move on with one's life. I think one has to be able to endure the awareness of the inequity of the world, how badly it is arranged in certain ways, so that one never forgets how important it is to do the best one can, how important it is to improve how things stand. Sorry, my thoughts have carried me far away from your initial comment but maybe you find something in them.
zsdfwjco zsdfwjco nice reply, thank you for taking the time to get your thoughts out; however, all of it takes me to lennon's song Imagine. You are right, good is good no matter where the helping hand goes. I just want the homeless situation in CA to be resolved. It breaks my heart to see homeless people in the richest country in the world. God knows we pay high taxes in CA and we still have a problem. I wish I had the answer.
I'm sorry about that. There are so many things wrong in the world that one could just lie in bed all day. I often get caught up with thinking about how one would have to revolutionise everything before things would be fine. And in thinking that, I forget of what monumental worth just helping one person can be. Just to think that by saying Hello to a person in the street, by buying them lunch, by sitting down with them and talking about their prospects in life, etc etc, that one could in that way make the difference, make them realise how good it feels to be acknowledged and attended to by other people and encourage them to go seek help (I don't know much about the social system in the US though). But I do know how, even if for just 5 minutes, this kindness would make me feel, warm, and how it would encourgae me to extend this kindness to others which all takes me to Dostoevski: 'How could you know, Bakhmutov, what effect this communion of one soul with another may have on the fate of his associates? ... Aren’t we dealing here with human life in the round and a countless number of latent ramifications? [...] When you sow your seed, when you perform your beneficence, your act of charity, in whatever shape or form, you surrender some part of your personality and absorb a part of another; you commune with another being. [...] Furthermore, all your ideas, all the seeds you haveimplanted, no doubt long forgotten by your good self, will germinate and grow. Whoever benefited from you, will pass the benefit on to others. And how can you tell what your part will be in the future resolution of men’s destinites?' (just had the thought handy, so I thought I'd just copy it, I'll give a listen to Lennon's Imagine)
She has the choice and liberty to help whoever she wants. You're not the judge to determine who should be helped first and by whom. As a human-being with free will, you can cry for and help your "backyard", but if she chooses to help someone else, it's her choice. I believe she should be praised for having the courage to express her emotions while reflecting on a heart-wrenching occurrence on camera and she should most definitely be praised for actually helping and not being ignorant like many other people in this world. She is doing her share of work to leave this world in a slightly better shape than she found it and who she helps first is irrelevant.
mimi mitrevski how do you know that she isn't doing charitable things? and why should she not cry? she's a mother. she knows how stressful it is for children to have to go through such chaotic situations. empathy and compassion is not all about donating money, my friend.
"Quem não sabe inventa." E com a categoria que Cate tem, acha que caso ela humanamente doa algo, viria expor ao mundo a sua doação? Ela é uma celebridade do qual muitos invejosos insensíveis se aproveitariam não para a elogiar, mas sim para a apunhalar afirmando que ela se exibia e quereria mais protagonismo. Cate, não precisa disso para nada. Cate Blanchett só pela sua beleza e arte, fora a sua ilustre singularidade vale por mil artistas. Os governantes da Austrália têm muita sorte. (Fora a fama dos cangurus e crocodilos) ela é o maior símbolo artístico do povo australiano. Bem haja e que Deus a abençoe. Maia de Melo Lopo. Lisboa/Portugal. Agosto/23.
I love cate but this can manipulate many people, although she can say and do whatever she wants. There is no more space for refugees in Europe, refugees with a culture so different to ours, so they'll have to go to Australia (Cate's country)
Did you watch the video? She tells a story. I may never know this kind of story until she tells it. It didn't make anything better right after, but it definitely has an impact, even if its too small for you.
If KB is so moved by the plight of the illegal muslim squatters who were made to move back in large numbers by ARSA (aided & abetted by their paymasters the Saudis) just to evoke the gullible world's sympathy, she should go straight to Saudi and persuade the King there to renounce the vicious cult (Islam). This would sort out almost all the problems in this world and leave it peaceful and harmonious.
Uday Sheorey you don't understand what Wahhabism is. The Saudis use it to further their political power in the world by making extremist dumb asses think they (the Saudis) are the only Muslims in the world and that there doesn't exist four schools of thought (which were used to give humane interpretations to Shariah law), look up Muslim scholars such as Dr. Timothy Winter, Hamza Yusuf Hanson, Sh. Abdullah bin Bayyah, Imam Zaid Shakir, Suhaib Webb, etc.
Thank you for spotting the inadvertent error. The main point of the post is not to be stupid however, but to get the message across to people capable of independent rational thinking that Islam is NOT a religion. It is a racist, vicious, militant, violence-inciting cult-following with the sole aim of world domination. Islam was started as a neo-political movement by a deranged warlord, to gather numbers by force if necessary, by taxation of non-followers, by subjugation, by conversion, by taking slaves, ... Could Mohammed even read or write himself? The koran was compiled and written down a long time after his death, from memorised accounts by various generations and handed down by word-of-mouth accounts, then re-edited sometime later and the peaceful parts edited out. It is a militant prescription for domination and subjugation of those who do not accept its tenets. Unless we all (peace-loving) get together to eradicate Islam from the face of this earth, like we did to Naziism, by re-writing the koran, de-radicalization of the diehard followers, shutting down the madrassas and prohibiting the hate/violence/radicalizing preachers. We have done it once; it can be done again. Only then does it make sense to begin to help the remaining muslims to start a new way of life and rehabilitate back into normal society.
The venom in your heart is showing. It doesn’t matter who you are, If you can’t understand crying for others, you lack empathy, period. And people lacking in that makes the world worse.
