This struggle is the reason for the film's popularity. It confronts them with the question of moral accountability and vividly portrays for us the confusion which the couple go through as they wrestle with making a decision. The movie accurately reflects our cultural values. We live in a culture that thumbs its nose at moral absolutes and moral accountability. D.C. The movie raises the serious question as to whether we are to be held accountable for what we do.
Some people live as though there is no price to pay for how they act.
Then when the payment does come due, they discover that it is far more than they had bargained for. There exists within our society a mythology about evil. . One of the myths is that a person is not fully responsible for his or her actions. It is a belief that excuses a person from acknowledging full responsibility for some irresponsible action. It attempts to define evil as a force that is someone or something outside one's self.