A thought

I watched a really powerful film called ‘We need to talk about Kevin’ yesterday. It’s one of those films that hits you and makes you question things and you’ll find it consumes your mind trying to unravel and process some of the key issues and leads you to one of the big unanswered questions in life – why do people do the things that they do? Perhaps more significantly, why do some people do bad things? Sometimes people have no justification for their actions and despite ample time do not reflect or change their behaviour and continue to act in a certain deviant way.

After reading a review about the film, I also found myself thinking why does mankind or human nature more specifically try and find meaning in everything? Why don’t we just accept things happen as they are and leave it be? Does religion play a part in this?

“If it happened, why does it have to mean anything”

Life of Pi

Also this comes to mind:

“It's like this: you wake and watch TV, get in your car and listen to the radio you go to your little jobs or little school, but you don't hear about that on the 6 o'clock news, why? 'Cause nothing is really happening and you go home and watch some more TV and maybe it's a fun night and you go out and watch a movie. I mean it's got so bad that half the people on TV, inside the TV, they're watching TV. What are these people watching…”

We need to talk about Kevin

I found this quite a poignant observance. I don’t quite know what I make of it yet. What do you make of it?