#dag hammarskjold

[thecalminside]

The longest journey is the journey inward.

-Dag Hammarskjold

[yourdailyqueer]

Dag Hammarskjöld (deceased)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay / Asexual

DOB: 29 July 1905

RIP: 18 September 1961

Ethnicity: White - Swedish

Occupation: Economist, diplomat, Secretary General of the United Nations

Note: The first and only posthumous recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Stay in your own lane.

[Thanks Ian Sanders]

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"God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason."

~ Dag Hammarskjold

[dag-hammarskjold]

I cannot believe it, I found the Hammarskjold movie

I really enjoyed it, it is about everything I would ask for

Thoughts under the read more, will include spoilers

I really like the direction, the dichotomy between Hammarskjold the Secretary-General and Dag the person. I see why some wanted more focus on the crisis itself, but I actually think the crisis is not that relevant to him, as the subject of the movie. And given the almost 2 hour run time already, I think it was the right decision.

I cannot talk about the dichotomy between Secretary-General and man without talking about Peter. I remember reading that the director added Peter as a stand-in for him, as a voice to which he said what he wanted to Dag. I definitely see that, but his sub-plot with Dag was so good it is barely noticeable. (And I respect the rpf self insert shipping 😂)

In the movie, Dag and Peter knew each other since University, but were estranged after Peter tried to kiss him on a camping trip. It’s almost like a romcom setup - the love interest reappears into the protagonist’s life in a time of turmoil and uncertainty, reigniting feelings the protagonist long repressed. In the past, Peter even gave him a gift - a statue of a unicorn - something Dag would later use in Markings to describe himself.

The conflict within Dag is so palpable. When Dag was told Peter had previously been found guilty of homosexuality in Sweden, the first thing he asked was if anyone else knew. When he rejected Peter for the second time, Greenback his pet monkey and sole companion died almost simultaneously… the parallel writes itself doesn’t it?

The Congo crisis itself was probably the weaker part of the movie, and I am fine with it. It quietly builds up in the background, and ends almost just as unsatisfyingly quiet. Because there is no fight at the climax, this is not a 3-arc narrative where everything is resolved, not even like the more well-known crises in the Cold War where everything ended generally better than it started, the crisis continued on for years, if not till modern day. Hammarskjold died, and the movie ends with him. I would suggest watching a different movie if you want to focus on the events of the crisis.

It somewhat reminds me of reading about the crisis in real life: you know what it is from the start, there is no gallant fight, you watch them walk away less hurt than the good people, you watch them win using all the dirty tricks, you know it doesn’t matter that the pilot who shot his plane down had tears in his eyes, you know how it ends.

Most other characters are relatively one-note, and I think it fits. Dag was a lonely, perhaps very repressed man. I think on some level he was afraid of being known so intimately, the way Peter did, and thus he keeps most people (that he didn’t know prior to being at the UN) at arm’s length.

The use of quotes from Markings were also well-chosen and well-timed. I could almost recite them by heart, and they fit very well into the plot. The movie does a really good job making you want to see Dag happy - in a cottage near his friends, back home in Sweden, no stressful job, and perhaps love. When Peter sent him a letter telling Dag that he had a right to be happy too, and Dag replied that Peter would be welcome when his term ended, it hurts ever more knowing it was too late.

I previously said this movie was my Oppenheimer, but that isn’t entirely accurate now, I suppose. Oppenheimer was a deeply polarising individual - the father of the atomic bomb - the movie must balance between his point of view and addressing the reality/horrors of him and his creation.

But Hammarskjold does not have this baggage - he is still by a wide margin considered the best Secretary-General of the UN, remembered universally positively. For once, Hammarskjold didn’t have to be the image of an impossibly perfect Secretary-General, he can be Dag. And I think he has more than earned it.

If this movie is all that the world will ever learn about Dag Hammarskjold, I would be satisfied. I would rank this a 10/10, but I am very easily satisfied by movies.

(If I got anything wrong, it’s probably because the version I watched had a dub in a language I do not speak, and subtitles that were not in sync with the movie)

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Dag Hammarskjold

[gennsoup]

Choked by its clown's mask And quite dry, my mind Is crumbling.

Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

[withnailrules]

A great new year's resolution:

"If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer."

Dag Hammarskjold

[dk-thrive]

We die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Dag Hammarskjöld, "Markings" (Ballantine Books; January 1, 1982) (via Alive on All Channels)

[viktor-regnsky]

The sky’s still blue

[x-heesy]

𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝝠𝗧

The longest journey is the journey inward.

-Dag Hammarskjold

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Soundtrack: New World by Zap Mama 🤍

[thecalminside]

Life only demands from you the strength you possess.

-Dag Hammarskjold

[linusjf]

Dag Hammarskjold: Easy to be nice

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) “It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy – from lack of character. ” —Dag Hammarskjold.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Flight trails, captured by Edu Aguilera

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"God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason."

—From "Markings," a book of meditations by Swedish diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961), recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and the second United Nations Secretary-General [Traversing]

[dag-hammarskjold]

I need to make a thread of every time Hammarskjöld has inadvertently hinted to his own death. Past a point it stopped being foreshadowing and started to become writings on the wall

[fourdramas]

began researching dag hammerskjöld’s impeccable reputation because surely no scandinavian un general secretary is that impeccable

i did not expect to discover a longstanding disagreement between historians on whether he had ties to the swedish-american mining industry or that was propaganda fabricated by belgian industrialists. i guess one way or another, it does not change that he was most likely assassinated in order to protect belgian commercial interests. but it vastly changes his motives.

i have not read wide enough into this to draw any conclusions (of course assuming no ill intent unless i am fully convinced that it is proven), but it is far more interesting than i first assumed!

[gennsoup]

The ride on the Witches-Sabbath to the Dark Tower where we meet only ourselves, ourselves, ourselves.

Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings