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...
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.
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This is great, it really makes you think of how you truly perceive evil. A rather arbitrary word. Used for good, but not necessarily portrayed that way. 5/5!!
@jenAsafa No, it's not, it actually shows the stupidity and "superstition" that american people heard the world terror too many times associated with the arabs, which led to a mass hysteria, and suspicion towards them. In here it just showed how they were wrong in that. :P Other than that, I do understand your point and agree.
Taking your own life is your right in my opinion but to take others with you? How confused, drugged, insane, etc. would you be not to empathize? Of COURSE it's evil!
for example - you cite Africans that have done "evil". well, two events come immediately to my mind: the rwandan genocide and sudan - two acts of genocide which were fueled instead of mitigated by western involvement. and, finally, d) if it behooves you, think of it as a metaphor for a broader rejection of invoking particular categories of the "evil" and "good".
andy - a) using the term "whites" to describe western civilization is hilariously ironic and homgoneous and b) you've clearly missed the forest - i highly doubt this is intended to denounce all propagators of bad throughout history - it is examination of the evolution of one particular social perspective on evil. c) to be fair, by and large, much of modern domination and violence is born of a western paradigm so it wouldn't even be entirely inaccurate to choose this particular focus.
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yea right, john lennon was satan's little helper, fighting for peace and other humanistic stuff
Other than that, I do understand your point and agree.