[whiteperil] Sean: The banality of evil

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Posted by Sean:
The banality of evil
http://whiteperil.com/posts/1190535442.shtml


   Oh, great. I hadn't noticed that someone got the bright idea of
   [1]remaking Halloween. And, this being 2007, the major change is that
   we now have way more backstory about Michael Myers. John Carpenter and
   Deborah Hill kept it blessedly simple thirty years ago--the child had
   some inchoate evil in him that was crystallized by his sister's sexual
   experience. He was a just plain wrong'un.
   But that's not good enough anymore. Now we have to have the
   over-worked and under-attentive stripper mom, the abusive step-dad,
   and the bullying meanies at school depicted in exhaustive detail so we
   Get the Message: What's scary isn't primal, unknowable evil. What's
   scary is that Child Protective Services doesn't perform more
   interventions.
   And yes, I'm trashing a movie I haven't seen. Perhaps it's
   well-executed. That doesn't make the concept any less tiresome.

References

   1. http://imdb.com/title/tt0373883/