Tonight I went and saw "The Dark Knight Rises". Yes it was a very put together movie, action, violence, romance. Something any normal human being in this day in age would find intriguing and that would-- in a sense-- make the movie a good one.
I thought I'd be able to sit through this movie, just like any other. Cringe at the gory parts--I am not a gore fanatic. I find no enjoyment in watching a "good fight". John Steinbeck always wrote about man's inhumanity to man and when you stop and think about it, this is true.
We can be inhumane to animals or things, but it isn't the same as being inhumane to someone who is the same as you-- just as fragile, just as motivated, has a family to feed, someone who ultimately is just as delicate and fragile as you are. Maybe that's what people are afraid of, being over powered by someone who has the same potential they have in their hands given at natural birth.
I was unable to sit through this movie like normal though because every waking moment I was waiting for something in real life to happen. The shooting in Colorado was unexpected and made me more than nervous to watch this movie-- I was probably the jumpiest person in the theater.
Fear. What are you scared of? Fear can make you do crazy things. "There's nothing to fear but fear itself". A quote I heard once. When you feel fear, the wracking fear that something might happen. You're in a loud theater, what are they going to do? Anything is possible. Anything could happen.
While I was sitting, watching this scary movie and shaking deep down from fear of something to happen I could not believe what I was watching. A man taking over a whole city by fear. In the end a woman avenging her father's death. What they went through to complete their tasks. How many people they murdered, killed, "exiled" to get what they wanted. How could I sit there and watch some people kill other people, put them at their mercy. How can we as normal people ourselves get a kick out of watching people die? Oh yes in the end Batman saves not only himself and the entire city from exploding from an atom bomb, but how many lives ended to get to this final draw?
Think of your own life, people you love, people who have made ALL the difference in your life. What would you do without them? Then think about those other people you see on the streets. The people who have not impacted your life in any way, probably never will. Those people you will "never see again". Imagine how they look at you. You're just someone who they don't know, someone they don't care about. They don't think you're anything big, important. But you know that there is something to you, a story, a life. There is something more to you then just a face in the crowd. You're not just some face, you have a life, a family, a story, something to live for, a reason.
How can we calmly watch all of these lives fade away in seconds? How can someone be so cold as to kill someone at their mercy?
A human. How strong is our body. We can help it grow, make it go to its maximum if we want. But there is always room for improvement. The strongest man in the world, well I'm sure he could get stronger. There are no limits for our bodies. With everything working correctly, man don't you just feel invincible?
In reality, one little cut, an infection, a virus can kill that body. One simple loss of oxygen, blood flow, brain power and your once invincible body becomes powerless. You can't do anything to stop it from depleting. Soon that once invincible body becomes it's natural elements. Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen and many others. Nothing more then what everything else is made of.
Our insignificance though, no matter how strong it is, can be overcome.
A doctor can change someones insignificant body and help it become feeling invincible again. There might be scars, some pain, but that body can come back and heal itself. That doctor then changed someones story, made it continue on from nothing. From something insignificant to being something again. Another day. Another story. There is no repaying that doctor for what they did. Whether they start a life by bringing a baby into the world or save a life from stopping our insignificant bodies from dying and turning it to heal itself.
How is this, that this doctor who is just as insignificant as you can make this large of an impact on somebody's life. Doesn't that mean that YOU can have that same amount of impact.
How can we sit and watch peoples stories disappear? How can someone just as insignificant make such an impact on someone's life and not even shed a tear? If that same thing happened to them, you KNOW there would be a tear shed. How can someone just decide when someone elses' story is up? Done. Over with. Sometimes people think that those who make an impact on others are those who are well known. You must be the President of the United States, president of some organization, something to be known to change someone's life. But this is untrue.
In Colorado that one man could have become something amazing. His potential and progress were great. He might have been well known for what he did with his degrees. Who knows. But now he has impacted so many families lives that he didn't need all of that. His name will be known for evil all around the world. If one person can make such an impact on another's life, why can't we do it for good?
Why couldn't he of made an impact for good? Gotten his degree and changed other's lives positively? I don't know. Nobody really will ever know why he decided to do what he did. Do we not credit those who change lives everyday enough to where someone has to do something totally outlandish to get the attention they crave. Why can't we give THIS big of a deal to someone who positively impacts someone's life. Why can't THAT be on the news instead of someone killing someone? If that didn't get as big and famous as it did, he might not of wanted to do that.
He got the attention he craved-- too bad we as American's gave it to him.
Violence in our entertainment has become something we just put in the back of our heads. Oh someone died, big whoop. MANY people die in movies, it becomes something that just happens. But if we review what I've said earlier about every life having significance, that one person dead is a whole story gone. Something HUGE just ended in an instant. Why have we become so calm and casual about such a definite and sad occurrence?
Why do we seek entertainment of such life changing instances? What entertains us about death?
What is our world coming to? When such life altering experiences become a thing of the past, something to brush off your shoulder? The gravity of our entertainment has been lost. It is no longer in our brains. We do not comprehend the real meaning behind death.
Next time you watch a violent movie, count how many people die. Now think of their families. Think of their story. Is that just another person dead, another dead body, or is that someone with a past whose life has been negatively impacted by the nonchalantness of our world?
How much worse is this world going to get? Are we ever going to wake up and smell the coffee? When will people realize their decisions not only impact themselves but others as well. When will we as a unit agree on something positive and give that the attention?
I'd rather live in that world.
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