its but human nature to root for the underdog. and more often than not, the person against the underdogs will be the bad guy. no one cheered when appollo creed kicked rocky's ass in the first movie, say what you want, but everyone was rooting for rocky. given, we were presented with little choice, we were only showed the grit, perseverence and determination rocky possesed, the morning jog, the endless sparring, the sacrifices, the setdowns. and it's how it is supposed to be. the good prevails over evil, everytime. you are not supposed to cheer for the bad guys. you are supposed to be on rocky's side (maybe on appollo's in the later rocky movies - only cause he was a good guy then), you can admire darth vader all you want but it was only right for luke to triumph in the end, hansel and gretel pushed the evil witch in the oven, hitler died a painful death in a ditch covered in petrol and the big, bad wolf was rightfully killed by the woodcutter.
so, what do you make of yourself when you suddenly find yourself on the wolf's side?
hitler deserves to die but who the hell does hansel and gretel think they are to come and eat people's houses and later shoved them in an oven? surely, it was justified when the witch decided to eat them as punishment to damaging her lovely house. its her house, when people come and started eating at your house you are allowed to get mad. and being an evil witch means you have a reputation to uphold. eating those little brats were the least she could do as punitive damage. would it make any difference if appollo was up against a more prosperous opponent? the creed-balboa fight was only great because it was an underdog versus an established fighter match. creed was at where he was because he deserved it. he faught for it, he worked at it, he was the champ because he beat everyone else. then came this dude, impressing everyone with his cool jogging theme song, all set to overcome creed and noone gave any thought at all about creed's hard effort. not having a theme song doesnt a bad guy maketh you. vader made a choice, he has obviously seen both sides and he made a choice and stood by it. surely something like that deserves a thought. there was only so much misusing 'the force' could have helped him in achieving that level of greatness. surely most of it was his own personal effort. and if little red riding hood was stupid enough at first to mistaken a wolf with her grandma, then the friggin girl deserves to be eaten. for a wolf, an animal, to be able to dupe the homo sapien grandmother and the stupid girl is to be commended not jeered.
im not worried that i might be a closet evil witch with a big oven.
im just sick at the world being bias and unfair.
take off your rose tinted glasses and observe all these shades of grey.
try a different perspective even if it hurts.
and maybe sometime give the bad guy a chance.
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no media is fair. that goes also to movies. Try watching both Al Jazeera and CNN side by side reporting the same thing.
I don't exactly know what you're trying to get at, but I've always ponder: Do we really need to kill all Jews?
im not really trying to get to anything. i just ramble and whine and ramble. i only write my blog when im high. i hold no resposibility over my actions when im high.
what i was trying to get across (and failed miserably apparently) was that its all black and white. i was thinking that its frustrating when people get so set in their ways and thoughts. people open minds are abundant (we never get shocked over anything anymore) but people with open minds, whos willing to understand things beyond their comprehension or against their belief are extinct. im talking about understanding, not comlplience. the things that make us worldly are the very thing that are making us narrowminded.
panjang lebar.
Come to think of it.. The gingerbread man was eaten by the wolf at the end... so.. not that bias after all huh?
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