Hey, I caught a couple of movies today on cable (while going through yet more boxes of stuff from the house). I had seen them before, but only now, after having had so much time to ponder infidelity, the nature of sin, and trying to figure out why someone could turn so utterly against their own value system, did I see the moral themes in this new light.
One was the fantasy Legend with Tom Cruise. I remember taking my kid brother to this back in 1985, when I was still in college. I've always like Ridley Scott's work -- his movies are so rich in imagery. The female lead, Lilly, is seduced by the evil antagonist, the devil-like Darkness. Before I could never understand how the heroine, if she was so pure of heart like they kept saying, could be turned by evil. It was a haunting echo, to now be able to see how that can actually happen in real life. My W, like Lilly, allowed her vanity and greed to corrupt her. But fairytales tend to have happy endings, and so does Legend -- Lilly is saved and redeemed at the end.
Such is not to be the case in my real-life tale.
The other movie was Fallen with Denzel Washington. It is, again, about evil corrupting or plaguing the innocent. A demonic force is able to pass from human to human by the merest touch. The similarity here is how rampant that the WAS disease seems to spread, just like evil in general. This one does not have a happy ending.
