This weekend was a nice mix of emotions & such. After many things, doing poorly on a midterm I know I aced, my pregnant cousin being admitted to the hospital for several ailments, & my grandfather being declared with dementia, I decided to just slip away into my own realm of thought. I popped on several favored videos & then some that weren't just because I hadn't seen them yet.
The first I saw was 300, then the Boondock Saints, which was lastly followed by Batman Begins *vomits a slight bit due to the fact it's a DC movie*. As I watched each one, it reminded me of some war movies. A lot of these films they seem to have a purpose for doing what they do. 300, Leonidas fights to defend his Spartan people & achieve that "perfect kill" in which they die for their country in a glorious bang. In Boondock, Connor & Murph have a calling by God to remove the "bad" in the world, or at least where they live. In Batman, he basically feels the same way; that he needs to keep Gotham safe & well.
In a lot of these stories, none of the characters really have a good motive to fight or do what they're doing. It's more or less "I signed up & Im here." How can you raise arms against another if you dont even really know why you're doing it? In all of the previously mentioned, there is reason to defend oneself & launch an attack. With Swoff & the multiple Scottish guys in Black Watch, they dont really have anything forcing them or motivating them to react. One typically has reason to fight.. Not just does. It confuses me on several levels & want to look further into this to see if there has ever been a protagonist/antagonist/vigilante who has ever done something just for the Hell of it.
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