For the Greater Evil Part-2

This post continues from where I left off in the first post… as a recap, the fight between good and evil has been portrayed in all forms known to man and throughout history there were incidents and people whom were seen as good but were really evil. So here’s the second part.

1. Bible - Moses spends 40 days and nights in mount sinai to get the 'ten commandments' from god, only to break them after watching his tribe worship a calf and behaving unruly like hippies, so he orders the killing of 3000 people who were involved. wait, wasn't that ten commandments supposed to help the unruly people to lead a good life? why kill them instead of giving the commandments to them?

2. Present day Genocides: The same American govt, who condemned the genocide and supported relief movements in Darfur, Sudan, has not opened its mouth on a same genocide of people in Sri Lanka. So even human life is valued only in places of interest.

3. Caste System in India: The priests and monks who spent all their lives reading Vedas, preaching chants, and doing duties to god’s statue all day inside a big temple were considered the highest caste, Told the lowest caste of the Farmers, who spent their entire day out in hot sun, working in mud and rain to cultivate crops and provide food to everyone to stay outside of the temples as they would disrupt the sanctity of it. Wasn’t helping others considered godliness?

4. Mahatma Gandhi: Gandhi protested against racism, when he was thrown out of a train compartment in South Africa. It was about giving separate rights to brown people (Indians) so they are not mixed or misidentified with black people. So wasn’t that Racist anyway?

5. Opposition politicians (any country) : Posing as a “Do Gooder” by exposing corruption in the ruling government, when all they want to do is the same corruption once they get power.

6. Religion: the ultimate power that controls people in the name of God, created to do good to people under a common faith, but a much greater evil in showing hatred toward another faith.

there’s a lot more history out there which I have not touched in these two posts. these are only a few examples put together to tells a message...!

There’s no pure good or evil.. there’s always impurities within both. It only depends on the degree to which you become impure, that makes us either of the two.

As Always, Likes and comments, dislikes and critic accepted..!

For the Greater Evil...!

Since the dawn of civilization, there’s been a split classification in humans irrespective of any other classifications that followed it. It’s not being Male or female..! It’s a much bigger one, it includes gods as well.. It’s being good or evil.

Have you people ever realized, that there are good people who are evil in some ways, but have been portrayed to us as a epitome of Goodness?

Here’s a few of the interesting cases through mythology and history, which posed a question about the Good people a.k.a Heroes, Here’s some instances of Good guys being evil (and evil people being good)..

You decide who’s the greater evil (or good) of them.

1. Adam and Eve - was it Satan who persuaded eve to eat the apple or the god who put the damn evil tree in middle of Eden in the first place.

2. Ramayana – Is it RAVANA, who went by the rules of that era where’ having multiple wives and marrying another man’s wife, after kingdom’s been conquered’ was common or RAMA, who destroyed an entire kingdom and killed innocent people, because his wife was kidnapped?

3. Ramayana again – is it RAVANA, who after kidnapping seetha waited for her permission to touch her or RAMA, who asked his wife to walk through fire in doubt of her purity and after being proven pure, sent his pregnant wife to forest alone.

4. Mahabharata – is it Dhuryodhana, who gave a part of his kingdom to his friend to make a peasant into a King, or Krishna, who let his friend’s teen son (abimanyu) die in battlefield.

5. Mahabharata – is it the Pandavas, who won the war by sabotaging the art of the war or Gauravas who lost it for playing fair.

6. WW2 – Germany for trying to prove race dominance to the world by genocide or USA, who showed world dominance by destroying 2 cities with Atomic bombs.

There are many more from where these came from, a bit of digging would reveal a lot more about the Heroes and Villains, after all history is written by Winners.

I will soon follow up this post with some other interesting instances. Till then, Think about it.

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Shark Snack !

Cinema is the epitome of entertainment for past century, ever since Edison invented the movie projector, it has fascinated people. Actors and Actresses being hailed as equals to gods and a powerful source of information and entertainment, sometimes can bring out social changes too. Indian Cinema has been ridiculously big in the world for a long time now. to be specific, Tamil Cinema has been close to my heart for years but recently it has been moving farther away.

I watched two extremely contrasting movies in recent times. Dasavathram for third time and Sura for first time. I was happy to watch the earlier but why did i see the latter. the essence of movie making is the extremities in both these movies, One at the highest end and other at the lowest possible end. Dasavatharam was basically one man's work, the genius Kamal Haasan. The amount of research put into creating a story which is very complicated and making an apt screenplay which is simple and understandable for a layman is marvellous. He has also performed and dubbed in the movie for 10 different characters which have totally different looks and characteristics.

the concept of chaos theory was neatly explained in the movie along with so many social messages and beautiful dialogues with plenty of wit and inner meanings which make it a good topic for a great discussion. The first scene of the movie of the 12Th century takes your breath away. the movie was a indeed a good watch.

On the other hand, Sura was Horrible, crappy, and plain boring. It was supposed to be vijay's 50Th movie, aren't milestone movies supposed to be a very good one ? i thought so but this one looked like one which is not going to get vijay any more milestones rather some big grindstones on his head. The movie had Nothing in it, century old story, very boring screenplay, plain action and dubbed music, even vadivelu's comedy was stale. I am not talking more about the movie, makes me feel upset for watching such a disaster.

I have a lot of questions in my mind though... Didn't this director see any movie or Tamil movie before ? didn't anyone see the movie before it got released ? not even a single soul cried out loud that it was a screw up ? what about the producers are they printing money to spend on filth called movies?

then the hero... Vijay. NO way is he going to become the next superstar with these kind of movies, if he's going at this rate churning out things down his back. thinking about being a hero, does he even listen to the story before taking up a movie? does he resent for having given pathetic flops? and my god save 3 idiots remake from Vijay. I don't want to see him disgrace that masterpiece.

I don't want every movie to be a perfect masterpiece like dasavatharam, but a movie is to provide entertainment, it should be decent enough to deliver it. If the Director had ripped off a good action movie from hollywood and had it remade scene by scene like photocopying that would have been least justice instead of the Sura he's given.

Luckily, there are stalwarts like kamal,manirathnam and good directors like bala, murugadoss, shankar and few others who give good movies once in a while. else, Tamil cinema is doomed to become like a Sura puttu (shark snack).