I watched "Law Abiding Citizen" last night.
AWESOME MOVIE!!!!
One of the best I've seen in a long time, and right up my alley.(after working in the porn room, maybe I should stop saying that)
Watching this movie, I've realized something about myself...well, I knew it all along, but it really came to the forefront last night.
I could really f#$% someone up. I really WANT to f#$% someone up. BIG TIME!
I have alot of anger pent up inside and I think I need to let it out! ;)
I thought Gerard Butler's character did what needed to be done..plain and simple as that. And I would've done the same thing....but only more so!!
What would YOU do if someone killed your family? uh huh...that's what I thought.
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If someone killed my family.... I would wish I were dead right along with them. Something happening to my family would kill me.
Then, after that, I'd be killin me some fools. Yep.
How in the hell did Honeydew come up on my name? That's totally weird. This is Leah! In case you were wondering. lol!!!
Girl, I was wondering who the hell HONEYDEW was!!!!
This is why we have the court system. Really. No what ifs here. I have had someone in my family shot and the people responsible for it went to jail.
Of course I was also completely supportive of the friend whose daughter was physically abused by the daughter's boyfriend. When the boyfriend went to jail on other charges, my friend found out what jail and put some money in another guy's account to make sure things would be handled properly. I am a big fan of dropping folks into the general population.
I would hope they would be arrested, tried and sentenced to prison for life, but I would definitely NOT kill anyone.
That makes me one of them, and I'm better than that.
I don't know what I would do... AGAIN.
It is interesting to see what people say that didn't have to confront such situation. Love what Billy Munny said about killing a man... "... take away all that he ever was and everything he was going to be."
There is a lot of the killer that dies with their victim. Only certain kinds of people are capable. Are you capable of living with that?
I do know how difficult it is to 'hang your hat' on something regrettable. There are things that you will always question. Even though you will try to tell yourself that it was indeed 'worth it', it honestly is too big a question to say one way or the other.
You just have to live with the consequence. Mourn and be free or mourn and be incarcerated? Trust me on this, you'd rather try to go to therapy or even live in that dark cloud than go to jail.
Can you imagine having people take away your freedom and years go by and the sense of loss from the crime hasn't abated and there you go, life destroyed. At least if you let the system carry out justice (didn't see the movie, so I don't know what set stuff off), and the killer received their just desserts, you would still have you life.
Kill the killer? Nice talk. But now you have TWO dead people or an entire family wiped out. What good is that?
Living with pain is doesn't mean that life has to be over. Harder to believe that it isn't if you are behind bars. Andy Dufrense is the only cat who made that work for him and like the words of Billy Munny, that is wisdom gained from fiction.
Sometimes, I am stunned at what folks who haven't had to live through incarceration says about their willingness to sacrifice their life and let it slip away behind bars.
You would be FORCED to cope with it anyway. And the reason that justice is left to 'higher powers' is that I don't think you'd want to be forced to make sense of all that in your mind.
And you won't. Get your canteen filled and have enough left over to give Madge, the cell block bull her smokes.
Life DOES NOT CARE that you exacted vengence. Punishment is punishment. Your time won't go any easier having gotten back at anyone. So I am wondering what would anyone do sitting up behind bars looking out, their cell mate and their grief with them.
And there isn't going to be a ceremony where you get a prize for what you did. Trust me on this one honey, cause you know I speak the truth!! (sorry for hijacking your entry!!)
Hope to see this movie.
You are a good person you wouldn't want to hurt anyone lol
I would do it silently that is for sure...cause I am hard like that!!!
Dang people!!! it was a joke! (sort of) if someone DID kill my family right in front of me...I probably WOULD goa little nuts, cuz I have the capacity to do that...but DANG!!!!!!!
Next time I see you, remind me to talk to you about Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land." specifically ask me about the zoo scene.
God helps those who help themselves...................................................
I was feeling kind of depressed when I saw that movie. My mind kept wondering elsewhere. So I missed out on the story line. I was so confused. I was actually rooting for him hoping that the skinny guy with the big nose would get his.
Great. Now I know why he is doing what he was doing. Thanks for the spoiler you movie whore!!!!!!
Sometimes I totally want to smash my car into someone. Is that bad? :)
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