Blood Brother

This blog is on 'Blood Brother' that showed Thursday. One of the things I found interesting about Rocky ministry service at the HIV orphanage, is how it affected him. The living conditions in India is horrible, the people there is judgmental towards him, passing all the blame of their tragedies and misfortune on him, and all the work that goes into protecting and taking care of the kids were hard, but the love those kids gave him is far greater than any love he got in the US or anywhere else. At the beginning of the film, Rocky sister reflects back during their childhood, about how hard Rocky worked to get his father's love and approval to little or no avail, but now when he goes to the HIV orphanage, those kids overwhelm him with it. It's no wonder he calls his time over there, the best days of his life, despite all his hardships. The scene that was most powerful to me was when Rocky was in the US and he gets a call about one of the boys in the home who contracted a deadly virus and is near death. Rocky rushes back to India to be by his side only to find him looking like ground hamburger. The boy appears to be already dead, not responding to anything, but just a few minutes with Rocky and he starts to come alive again. It seems almost surreal the power family has on a person. Everyone who had that virus, died in that hospital except the little boy with Aids. The kids at the home needs Rocky but I think he needs them even more.