Saturday, August 8, 2009

In The International, Interpol Agent Louis Salinger and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks. Uncovering illegal activities including money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of governments, Salinger and Whitman's investigation takes them from Berlin to Milan to New York and to Istanbul. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk as the bank will stop at nothing - even murder - to continue financing terror and war - www.imdb.com

When the enforcers of Justice are unjust, when everyone else are quite okay with whats goin on, to whom do one turn to? "They control your money. They control your government. They control your life. And everybody pays", its the tag line from IMDB. Somehow or the other it sounds all too familiar .

Louis Salinger had to make a choice. He would never be able to defeat this evil power by stayin within the system because the system itself was easy. In Sri Lanka this approach is shown in films like 'One Shot' and 'Leader' and presented as the best way to deal with Corruption. But is it? Arn't we fighting the evil with evil itself ?

Something similar was presented in WATCHMEN, chosing the lesser evil to avoid the bigger evil. Does the end justify the means in the progression to a better world ? We dont have the answers but something which we can think about after watching this.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Sachendra,

    Ur blog is cool. Take care of the design. Its good to see that u have seen some cool flicks that I have not. If there's anyway I can help u, plz twit me. Take care. Keep up the grt work.

    Roshan
    www.moviestudio.wordpress.com
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