It's not often I sit down on purpose and watch a movie that isn't in the sci-fi, fantasy or horror genre's. But I'm finally taking the time out tonight to watch "Harry Brown".
Michael Caine plays a war veteran who loses one of his only remaining friends to violent crime. Despite his age, he's had enough and goes about to kick butt and take names.
Whether he is successful or not, I'll have to wait and find out. But the premise alone really resonates with me strongly. Although I don't advocate revenge or vigilantism, these kinds of stories resonate with me because they identify the fact that we live in a broken, messed up and (let's just say it) evil world. On the theoretical level, we all want to be about forgiveness and tolerance. And these are both virtues. But we forget that there is also a great need for justice and a balancing of the scales. In fact, revenge and vigilantism often rise up because of the felt need for justice.
There is right and there is wrong. And intuitively we all recognize a need for justice. Movies like these help remind us of that, and so my hat goes off to "Harry Brown" for that alone.
Hopefully it's a good flick, too. Speaking of which, it's time to find out!
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