Will Love Be The Cause Of Evil?

No: 52-14

August 31,2022

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I read an interesting article of @HappyBoy early today about the movie he watched recently " Loving Adults" ( Thanks to you , i got something to write now, lol!). It made me asked myself if it's really love that cause all of the sinful acts in the movie or it's the behavior and personality of the character that's within them in the first place.

It was a great narration of @HappyBoy as if i also watched the movie too. But yes, i also checked the movie upon reading his article coz i got interested hahaha! Let me just summarize it. It was a story of a couple where the wife gave up her promising carreer as Violinist to take care of their child who has a long term illness . The husband cheated on her that eventually led to a plot of killing her to literally put her in silence coz the wife also know about the fraud or financial scam that he was in , to be able to raise funds for their ill childs medical expenses . Ok the plot of killing the wife turn epic failed coz he killed a wrong woman on the road instead of his wife. The wife learned about it and promise to cover it if he would kill his mistress , but the husband could'nt kill the mistress coz he love her so the wife do the act and they got away with it. By the way the wife already had a history of commiting the same crime coz she killed her ex boyfriend too coz of he cheated on her too. She pushed him into a cliff. The ending? Seems like they got away with it coz the last scene was showing they are throwing the bones of the mistress in a lake.

We often heard in the news nowadays about "Crime of passion" wherein crime was committed due to infedelities of either parties. Jealousy , lies ,obsession and behavioral problems that was link to "LOVE". Is love really the culprit?

The movie dwells on how our minds work when we are being hurt and cheated. As human we want immediate revenge. It's like " thinking out loud". What our minds are thinking , and what we want to do at that moment of hurtful event. How we planned everything in our mind and get away with it without anyone knowing it. How we want to escape realities of life. How easy it is to eliminate a problem if only we could execute what's on our mind. That's how i see the movie. The creative writer wants us to see "what is playing in our crazy mind " whenever we are hurt.

The wife Leonora killed his ex boyfriend Mike by pushing him into the cliff because he cheated her. Easy huh! And now that she's married and the husband cheated on him too , she wants the mistress to be out of the scene so killing her was her solution once again. Easy way out. Smooth criminal.

But in realities it won't be the same. Though we are hurting we are still in control of the real set up . We don't easily resort to kiling someone to smoothen everything up. The writer tries to bring us into " realm of our mind" where we can do anything we want smoothly even if it's an evil act.

However the husband portray the realities of life. How human finds solution to a problem. How fear of facing realities brought us into a more complicated life. Trying to tell us that " the end does'nt justify the means".Doing fraud just to sustain the medical expenses of their child was still not right. That infedility is a rampant issues of todays world. That in reality. A mistakes or wrongdoing cannot be covered up by another wrongdoing coz it will lead to an endless sins that will destroy your well being.

So is it love that cause all of the sinful acts? I guess not. It's how we deal in our dillemas . I don't think that love drives the wife to kill his ex and live a life without regrets . I think she's crazy from the start. And the husband should have been file a divorce as a way out instead of cheating. Lies will lead us to nowhere but to a world of illussions that only liars can believe and understand.

I still believe that love can change and make our world better and not the other way around.

Thanks for reading. And once again @HappyBoy thanks for leading me into that movie that got my interests through your article. And to all my sponsors as always, Salamat ng Marami!

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