I was watching a movie yesterday night, I gave it about a six, and started thinking about the antagonist of the story. You see, for some reason I thought about all of the dislike and hatred I had for this character throughout the story and wondered, why? Why do I not like this person? Is it because he is doing evil? Is it something much deeper? Contemplating this I went back to a class I took where an idea was put out on a similar matter. Sometimes we dislike or hate someone because when we see them we might see a part of ourselves, a part of ourselves that is painful. For instance, I am an intense person, duh!!! When I see another overly-intense person that person tends to get on my nerves. Now I admit that there are probably exceptions to this but for now I am not going down that rabbit trail. You have to wonder when we see villains in a movie, is our disgust of them more because of a disgust in ourselves and what we could be capable of. Maybe we just don’t want to take a look in that mirror and realize that that antagonist is really a mirror into our own being. Our souls have been corrupted, the only chance we have left is to reach out to God and be changed to a hero.
More to come later...
