A History of Evil

Animated Documentary-Mockumentary about Evil in western civilization from Ancient Greece to present day.

After all the comments I feel like some clarification is in order, but firstly, to you guys that liked it:

Thanks, you've made my day.

The film was intended to show what people have believed in and pointed to as evil throughout history. It was meant to get you to think about what evil really is. It is meant to show that when we get too obsessed with "evil" we might end up taking part in it ourselves.

One has to separate evil and human cruelty. Human cruelty is people not being nice to one another. Evil is soemthing else, it is something we have created, a word and a concept for things that are not acceptable. It is a label for things that we do not understand and dont want to understand.

But is evil really ever a complete explanation for anything?

A lot of bad deeds has been done in the name of good. The people that did them ment good, are they evil?


OK, and finally,
This video is not meant to:

-blame wester culture and people for all the "evil" in the world. I'm european, and thought that I better stick to my own history.
-blame religion for all the evil in the world.
-claim that God is dead. (It is simply a reference to the philosopher Nietzsche, look him up.)
-offend anyone, race, religion, gender or sexual orientation.
-claim that Elvis was evil.
-be an exact and complete account of the actual events that has taken place throughout history.

This was a student project, hence the "unfinishedness" and abrupt ending. I ran out of time. I might update it later.

It was animated frame by frame in flash and composited and textured in AfterEffects.

• Category

  Film & Animation

[GrimSparky]

I'm trying to look for the best way to define "evil" and this is the closest thing I could think of...

Every

Villain

Is Lemon

Otherwise known as E.V.I.L.!

[shellscriptcoder]

That never happened. Before we used monetary means of paying others, we had the barter system. There was never a time where people did things just for the sake of helping others.

[sk4high20]

you just have to ask yourself ....how did things get done before tax gat invented (hint usually the answer is better)why you may ask ..the answer simple people did all those things you just listed just for the sake of helping one another ...now in days everything is done just for the sake of money so think about ur comment and see if you would like to post that away

[AceConquererChampion]

How can you have a history of evil without...

Every

Villain

Is

Lemons

...otherwise known as EVIL!

[Shawn Johnson]

Another evil is racism. Hating someone because of the color of their skin. That's mentally sick to me. It's so immature and so small of a reason to hate someone. The color of a person skin. That's like the color of someone's hair. Very stupid reason.

[Kyle McClurg]

Without taxes, public education and other services would not exist.

[Zach Thomas]

Without tax, how would the police that protect you get paid? How would the teachers get paid? How would the firefighters, the armed forces, the people who build and repair roads, or even the people who work as janitors at schools get paid? They wouldn't. Think about what you say before you say it.

[marhadiasak]

i hear some civilizaiton iv soundtrack

[linphil57]

The biggest evil is tax. Tax enslaves nations and people end up losing THEIR homes to a soulless overseas bank