Ever see Taxi Driver?
Classic movie.
The "hero" of the film is a psychotic taxi driver. At the climax, by some fluke (if I remember correctly) he is deflected from assassinating a presidential candidate. His raison d'etre now evaporated, he goes on a suicide mission to save a young girl caught up in a brothel.
There's a huge shoot out and he almost dies. But in the end he saves the girl and is proclaimed a hero.
A friend of a friend of a friend just murdered another friend of a friend of a friend. Even though some believe that the murdered wasn't necessarily the better guy; posterity will probably remember him better than the killer.
How shocking and how fickle fate is.
As Philip Zimbardo says, heroism and villainy are banal.
Everyone is capable of both; and yet often so sickeningly self-righteous.
9 comments:
point taken. and agreed :).
u have a v. interesting 6 degrees there..
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i thought this post is about the tv series "Heroes" xP
its interesting of what u've said. and about your friend of a friend of a friend who murdered afriend of a friend of a friend, its something like the DeathNote animation from Japan. not quite the same, but the aim of the murder seems the same. to be called as a hero xP
hey kana, i also love heroes!
i actually saw a lil Japanese kid running along the street the other day, he was just like Hiro - so cool!! :)
i'm trying to read this post, but it has two big grey boxes covering most of it. are you being censored?
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