So, last Friday (the date of this post, even though I'm writing it a week later), we went to the drive in movie theater. (the double feature this time: Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Frozen). It was a good time - Nathan and I had a lot of fun getting down there, and the movies were good (we had fun singing along to Frozen), AND we had gotten our house cleaned up earlier in the day, so I was feeling pretty good about that too. :)
Nathan and I noted that there are a lot of movies lately that have some really good plots and plot twists. I mean, I know everyone's already been raving about the definition of love given in Frozen, but that's because it's true. (Along with the exemplary demonstration of love in the movie - all over the place!). Also, the surprise ending in Frozen...man, that got me even knowing what was going to happen. But it was in Captain America, that I was really struck with a reminder of how we should treat others.
(spoilers from this movie may follow, depending on how picky you are about knowing what happens ahead of time.)
In Captain America, they're fighting to shut down a project that "will eliminate terrorists before they become a threat." Now, when they said that, I was on board with it. Particularly with all the stuff with Al Qaeda in our country (fairly) recently, I thought, "so if we know they're up to something, but we don't know what, we can go ahead and just end it, because if their plan gets all together and going, it's not going to be good." Sounds good. BUT, then come to find out what they meant was, they looked up everyone, checked out their jobs, history, past interactions with SHIELD, so on and so forth, and would eliminate anyone who might become a threat (including people who were currently working for SHIELD).
Man, that really got me. And after thinking about it, I realized why I was against it. It's because they were essentially taking away people's free will. They were punishing people for choices they hadn't made, and choices that they may never make. And that's what's wrong with it - is that they were being punished for choices that they might not ever make. If you take away that opportunity to screw up, yeah, you'll have a perfect society, but you also have no freedom. (And freedom, even freedom to make poor choices, is an important part to both America and Christianity).
And, that's what I thought about from watching Captain America. Hope movies we can learn from like this keep coming! :D
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