Wake up! Wake up! It's the first of the month.

English 102 came into my life way too quickly.  It seems like just yesterday summer was starting.  I'm not going to lie, I did miss having school.  But I miss having a good amount of sleep and not having to prioritize my time..  Well anyways, I didn't want my first entry to be me jumping in and talking about my research paper. Critically thinking about the characters motivations and desires actually is pretty intriguing.  I am doing my research paper on the movie Law Abiding Citizen.  This was my first time watching it and I must say it was nothing of what I expected it to be. 

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My initial thought of the film was silence.  I honestly had no idea what this film was about.  As I was watching the movie slowly it just sickened me more.  I don't know what was worse, corruption within human race or corruption in the court system.  It was one of those movies where you just want the bad guy to die, but you have so much sympathy for him at the exact same time that killing him would be heart breaking.  The hatred the main character had was inevitable.  The way he reacted, or should I say fought back, created this big violent war.  His wife and daughter were murdered.  His wife was also raped why she was slowly dying by the murder.  How could one not carry on so much anger and hatred toward the wrong doer.  He didn't want punishment; he wanted justice.  He failed to get peace within himself and peace knowing justice had been served.  Now at that time everything seemed to twist into a spiral downhill.  I am night quite sure who owned the spiral, but in the end ever single person slid down on it.  The way he approached his anger, decided to handle it, was pretty typical.  He took matters into his own hands. I think he approached it differently due to the fact that he was a male; which caused his behavior codes/morals to stray from right and wrong.  I still need to do more research into masculinity criticism  So far what I have come across truly interested me to peel more layers of scenes.  I am still thinking about what scenes I should focus on for my paper.  As for now, I will continue to look deep within and create more criticism toward the male actors actions.  HAPPY FIRST OF THE MONTH :)