Movie Truths

I've just watched a beautiful Danish movie. It's the second (or third - woteva) time I watch it and the point of it only just hit my daft analytical 'abilities' now! [smile] The title serves to enforce the blow of the point: "I Kina spiser de hunde" which translates into "They Eat Dogs in China."

It's a part of a 'recent' renaissance in the Danish film industry (besides Von Trier's stuff) - a renaissance that started off with the so-called 'dogme' genre which funded the small company's climb to excellent satire and ironic-comedic filmings.. wonderful really! But all this' beside the point.. The point is:

The movie's about this regular guy who works at a bank, lives with his girlfriend in his average apartment and plays squash for fun. One day a bank robber tries to rob his bank but he clubs the robber in the head with his colleague's squash racket. He comes home and his girlfriend split having cleaned out the apartment - apparently because he was too mediocre.. Just then the bank robbers girlfriend comes to his door yelling and hitting him because they bank money was for an artificial insemination that she should've had because the robber and her really want kids! He feels really bad and... to make a long movie short, he goes to his criminal brother and tells him that he wants to right his wrong. His bro helps him rob a bank and they go on a looong vendetta to right all their wrongs during which the brother starts killing people (out of necessity if you look at the task at hand) and the main character's shocked! After calling him a psycho, the (psycho) brother says to him that what he's doing's not wrong! -how can anything be wrong? You just find out what you're good at and call it 'right' and then whatever you suck at, you just label it 'wrong'. In that way you're always doing the right thing!

I know my portrayal of this masterpiece cannot convey all that there is to convey (read: it's shoddy!), but the point is clear and simple: today's common belief in darwinism has undermined all meaning and all moral. Why? [no answer] Why not then just kill the people who're in our way, take the money we want/need - MAKE OUR OWN TRUTH? [no answer] Why does the world not see that this FOOOOOLISH - and did I mention UNSUBSTANTIATED? - belief in so-called 'science' (read: blameshifting and RUNNING FROM FAULTS!) is undermining our entire society? The comfortable, vague and devastating 'truths' that people come up with frustrate me so much!! ARGH!!

What are people thinking when they ask me: "...does that mean, Ivan, that you actually believe that I'm going to Hell?" and I say: "Yes.." and then they go: "But that's so mean!" Deal with it people! There's a definite truth, there's nothing you can do to change that, so what're you gonna do about it? (and if you even think of starting on the 'holier-than-thou'-dung, I'll...)