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

Tags:

• animation
• art
• documentary
• short
• film
• evil
• stickmen
• history

[67jedi67]

when a person with full intent uses there intelligence and abilities to manipulate others at there expense for personal benefit, with no care or (even enjoyment) towards the damage being caused... evil. if you make money out of war, banking or oil, you are probably ignorant and/or greedy. if you are a decision maker you are stupid and/or evil.

[GreenSquishyPoo]

Every Villain is Lemons

[AussiefromleDoubs]

That makes..not much sense. You just said "no care(or enjoyment)-evil."

Then : "if you make money out of war...probably ignorant and/or greedy"

You just contradicted yourself.

[TheGrahambourn]

Are you the "moral compass" on what evil is? Are you suggesting its "evil" to prosper? I dont know you but if I had to make a decision about you based solely on the comment you posted, I would have to say the ignorance is in your court. To claim that making money through banking is evil is just plain stupid. Bet you would sing a different tune if you were making this "evil" money.

[Yora21]

No content, no structure, no purpose...

[GalileoFigaroNAARG]

r u saying that rock music is evil?!?

[XeroStas]

I am not lemon >:C

[down2despair]

Good is not better than evil it's just more comfortable.

[chrisdoyle11]

This is really great. I'm sorry some people found it confusing, or took it up the wrong way. It was really well done. I can't see a single thing that I would change. To me, the message was clear and moved at the perfect pace. Nice work!

[2993linken]

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