Truly Divisive, Law and Order or Not

Rating: 10/10 (7 October 2019)

This movie brings out the division I've long noticed between the people who are close-minded law and order type and the open-minded crowd that sees the whole thing from a more abstract, higher-level perspective. My reactions are mixed for this movie. But what I found really frustrating is the 1-star reviewers who can't accept a moview portraying the perspective of the "villain" and then they purposefully give this movie the lowest score possible. Those people have to see a traditional villain-lose-the-game ending in order to go to sleep at night. This movie didn't offer them that. Rather, this movie challenged their deeply fixated social and moral codes. This is what I liked the most from this movie. It brought a new angle that made a lot of people uncomfortable - something that they never thought could be on stage. It doesn't have to have a right or wrong. And quite frankly the movie cleverly avoided talking much about right or wrong. The lack of clear distinction severely challenges the people who can only see black and white but nothing in between. They live in their close-minded world and fail to see the story from the other side's perspective as they have been bent on blindly accepting the authority's interpretation as the one and only "right" perspective and all others are wrong and evil. They are shocked that so many people gave this movie such a high score. They don't understand the enthusiasm and sentiment behind this. It makes them scared. The sentiment has always been there. They just simply refused to acknowledge it. "Let them eat cake," they say.
Interesting enough, the ratings for this movie is also divided on age. Those <18 gave it a 9.4 average, while those 45 and older gave a 8.6. The reason behind that is all but confusing. The younger generation is indeed different, and the challenges they face in this world is unique as well. Perhaps it's not the violence that we should worry about. Perhaps too often we attach fixated labels to others foreign and different and refuse to even look into the other person's perspective and narrative. Way too often we think the worst of others, and the best of us. We are always right; they are always wrong.