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End justifying the means

This is the running theory in most of the South Indian movies that I've ever seen till date. Movie heroes are always chasing bad guys. Repeat, re-repeat, re-re repeat. OK. We faithfully swallow that one. But, how the hero takes out the bad guy? That's what beats me.

Let's see. First of all, the hero pretty much self-appoints himself as the savior of the society's evils. But what about his plan? Well, what plan? You know, the one which pretty much involves the most primitive weaponry in the history of mankind. No thinking whatsoever - just take an axe and cut someone's body part off? Gruesome. Last time I checked, even boys in a kindergarten playground probably exhibit better fighting strategies than our movie heroes do.

We're choking by now but let's move on. After a horrendous battle, and after we scream and plead - enough, please I don't want to see one more drop of ketchup ever in life, the director mercifully decides to end our torture. Hero kills the villian along with scores of poor souls, some of them having no clue why they have been executed. Finally, the finale.

Where as I going with this? Seriously, why is the underlying message always resonating that 'end' i.e getting rid of the bad guy 'justify the means', i.e you can do whatever you want to achieve that end. Why are we still clinging on to this kind of Stalinist philosophy which has become extinct long time back?

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