Saturday, May 17, 2014
i've been watching a couple of korean movies, such as the ever famous 'oldboy' (not the best compared to the mentioned ones later), and the not so famous 'mother', 'memories of murder', 'silenced (japan)' and most recently 'i saw a devil'. the common themes of those films are justice and revenge.
sometimes when something is done, no matter what you do, you can't undo it. that idea alone, is so so very hard to absorb, because whenever you are being let down by someone, you have that rage goes on inside you, and as much as you wanna go berserk on that someone, you know it'll most likely go down in futility.
how do you get over the fact, then?
what makes it fair?
being disappointed, and thus wanting to do something back in return. an eye for an eye?
revenge may be ice-cream sweet, but other than sense of 'justice' being upholded or the satisfaction that comes within teaching them a lesson, what does it really achieve?
further worsened friendship ties, or simply nothing that actually solves the initial problem.
then again, what if we just leave things as that?
having them culprits getting away scot-free - never a good feeling. they may strike a second time, for all you may know. it may be better than not adding fuel to the fire, but letting them get away with a crime (or fill-in-the-blank)? too easy... too damn easy.
of course, those were movies, dramatic police/courthouses or just plain psychotic serial-killings, but if we go to the very essence of just small disappointments with the people you meet in life, the same can be applied to the scenario.
to break-ups, to people throwing aeroplanes alike.
you get pissed, annoyed, but what good does it do to flare up at them?
usually you'll end up further pissed because of the attitude of human beings - stubborn, unchanging...
since when can any two persons ever be a perfectly good terms? you give in, of course, you know that you'll somehow be in the losing end. you always want it more. everyone else doesn't want it as much as you do. so what's the point trying to prove your point.
in order to protect yourself, you gradually start to lose the trust in people.
and soon enough, the only person you can trust is yourself.