Fear & Witch-Burning

Rating: 10/10 (21 September 2008)

For those who have played and/or seen Silent Hill, it should be obvious that the philosophy behind it explores the continuation of self-righteous witch burning in our society today. It remains the responsibility of each one of us to shut witch-hunters down, albeit peaceably so that we do not, in turn, become like them. In our own day, anyone who refuses to play the political game are the "witches," and if we still lived in Puritan times, many people would be burned at the stake. Let us not forget the Red Scare of the 1950's. If people had not stood up against the witch-hunters of that era, the results would have been horrendous. As it stands, many lives were destroyed.
This film is very important.
It is also horribly frightening.