I have just watched an epic and didn't realize it until it was finished.

I caught Genghis Khan on ABC5 exactly 26 minutes ago, and at first, I criticized the phony sets, the ugly actors and the word gritty which actually sums up everything visual in the movie.

But what was tremendous is that there was a profound expression of a mother's love for her son. Ghengis' mother here was portrayed as a woman who would do everything and even insane things for her sons. One scene which touched me deeply was where she even killed a wolf singlehandedly so that her sons would have something to eat. She has no regard for anything that might happen to her but for her sons, she would lose herself and see only her objective.

I don't know if this film was historically accurate but it portrayed the Genghis Khan as someone who would do anything for her mother. He was a man who was constantly fighting himself because he wouldn't want to express love for the fear that he would be somehow inferior in the face of the war he was waging infront of his enemies. Near the very end, he said that he had finally defeated himself.
In the very end, man's greatest enemy is not another man, nature or other external forces but man himself. Because you can't escape the reality because the reality is you. You can't kill it because you will risk self-destruction and you can't really fill the void in your life until you have realized what was wrong. Sometimes, to see the truth, one must look through the eyes of others and in this film, that was the eyes of his wife.

I recommend this film for all although it features violence and graphic bloodshed.