Life Lessons From Film?

[Rev. Rye]

I could list many examples, but here's one (albeit abstract) example. Around the same time I discovered A Clockwork Orange (my all-time favourite film, by the way), my mother discovered the twin "news shows" of Jane Velez-Mitchell and Nancy Grace, two demagogues whose demeanors were so similar I wound up calling them "Two Hours' Hate," and I noticed that their attitudes seemed almost identical to Alexander, the writer whose wife was raped by Alex (an event he ties to her death), and after a chance encounter reunites the two (after the Ludovico treatment has rendered him harmless), he decides to get his vengeance by cold-blooded torture.

Really, the only difference between this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf6YLPcU9iI

and this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyLXniF5kqU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=249MaK8UaIE

is Nancy Grace at least has the courtesy to stay within the law, and, given how flawed the law can be, that's precious little comfort.

And, if not for the "three videos per post" limit on this website, I'd have included a video of Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear, who's probably the cinematic epitome of how one evil man can take the limitations of the law and use it to his advantage in such a way that, if Gregory Peck does anything about it, he'd still end up on top. But, of course, I can't do that, partly because of the aforementioned rule, and partly because I couldn't find a definitive video demonstrating this on Youtube.