An Extremely Significant, Provocative and Inspiring Movie, Kudos!

Rating: 10/10 (29 October 2009)

Shelton gives us a glimpse of some of the many differences between Good and Evil People. Their choice of fantasy or reality, for example.
Good People, if they think about hurting someone, an innocent child, an innocent family, an innocent person of color, a not-so-innocent neighbor, boss, spouse, etc. are eventually satisfied with their fantasies of doing so. Thinking about it is not Evil.
Evil People, well intentioned or not, Sheldon shows us, turn their fantasies into reality.
Shelton is saying, to many of those Good People similarly devastated: 'It's OK to clench your fists and scream Yes!! Yes!! as you feel 'his' blood spurting out of appendages and orifices, splattering onto your appendages, your orifices, like a warm shower on an even warmer night. Yes! Yes!'
However... being Good People they only fantasize. Some for the rest of their lives. Some will, not many, after a while, be energized and inspired by their grief and inappropriate guilt, (never, ever, EVER will either disappear from their daily thoughts) create, in memory of their Loved One, an Organization which is all about Others Not Suffering the very same Immeasurable Pains.
He. Shelton, is only trying to do the same. Something, he works very hard to show, has to be done. He hopes to inspire all, to punish many.
Shelton also shows us, with near alacrity, that our legal system is ALMOST completely, immoral, inhumane, illegitimate. It's basic structure is so broken and flawed, not just by the Clyde Sheltons nor the Clarence Darbys of the world.
In many situations, way, way far too many, it is the Nick Rices, the Judges, the Police, the FBI, the Justice Department, our elected politicians and others who promulgate laws against common sense, for the egregious mechanisms used as Proof of Guilt or Innocence. Based, Shelton points out, not on moral character, rather the lack of it.
Increasing the number of convictions, district attorneys, police, detectives, judges, prisons based on a self-serving agenda which changes the meaning of 'Proof' into something reprehensible: it is now synonymous with, for many of those referred to above, more money, higher office, more 'troops' in the system, more power.
He does this quite well. They all do.
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