shockedcanadian
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Of course this is a spoiler if you haven't seen the movie. As many of us have seen the movie, how do you react in that situation? How did you react watching the movie the first time?
I recall being torn in that scene. My first thought was self preservation, "get the hell out of there, you're free. Go go!", especially as Ving had tried to kill him. However, there was that lingering emotion of heavy guilt of leaving a human being to the evils of man.
There is a big difference between two guys trying to kill each other due to their beef and that of someone being tortured and held hostage like an animal. Without question I knew the right decision for me would be to help him. I wasn't sure if the best way to do so as the guy was a cop so making an anonymous call to the police wouldn't work. I also did not like his choice of weapon, thinking it is far better that he arm himself with a gun as he was just walking back into the lions den outgunned. There was a real fear in that moment that this guy was just walking himself back into his own torture and death when the gun is fired at him.
Regardless, it is an important scene. Man must have character and honor. It's why even in war man created the Geneva Convention to set a basic agreement of the treatment of each other if taken as a P.O.W. A strange but critical component of mans principle often just moments after the same person taken POW was trying to kill you.
In this moment Bruce decided that he must free this guy who he knows, even as he is trying to kill him; rather than to leave him to this strange, foreign species of evil. There are lines that once crossed a man must not condone.
I recall being torn in that scene. My first thought was self preservation, "get the hell out of there, you're free. Go go!", especially as Ving had tried to kill him. However, there was that lingering emotion of heavy guilt of leaving a human being to the evils of man.
There is a big difference between two guys trying to kill each other due to their beef and that of someone being tortured and held hostage like an animal. Without question I knew the right decision for me would be to help him. I wasn't sure if the best way to do so as the guy was a cop so making an anonymous call to the police wouldn't work. I also did not like his choice of weapon, thinking it is far better that he arm himself with a gun as he was just walking back into the lions den outgunned. There was a real fear in that moment that this guy was just walking himself back into his own torture and death when the gun is fired at him.
Regardless, it is an important scene. Man must have character and honor. It's why even in war man created the Geneva Convention to set a basic agreement of the treatment of each other if taken as a P.O.W. A strange but critical component of mans principle often just moments after the same person taken POW was trying to kill you.
In this moment Bruce decided that he must free this guy who he knows, even as he is trying to kill him; rather than to leave him to this strange, foreign species of evil. There are lines that once crossed a man must not condone.
