The good, the bad and the Scofield!

Prison Break...

Interesting that my posts dwell increasingly on Reel Life. Isn't Real Life interesting enough? Or have I just stopped keeping a track of the world around me?
Latter probably, since I don't have people like Nandu to do all the analysis and hand me the scoops on everyone alive and what they are upto !! :D
I simply can't gather the required zeal to do that myself !! :D

Anyway so going back to this serial, one that I have been glued to for quite some time now. I love the settings, the characters and the conflict. Every character in here is grey, each and every one of them. The rights and wrongs are so badly inter-twined that it'll take millions of debates to sort them out and even so one might just see a draw.

The protagonist and essentially good-guy, Michael Scofield, is all correct to begin with, entirely above reproach. But somewhere down the line, in his single-minded pursuit of obtaining freedom for his brother, he compromises. As he puts it: "It's not what I did, it's what I allowed to happen". Freeing hard-core criminals, bribing, threatening, kidnapping, helping people who tortured his own love- all and more to save his brother's life. And yet one can't really pin him down.

Maybe right and wrong is not that absolute. Maybe there are situations when the entire concept breaks down and it isn't very clear what ought to be done! If one leads a life in black and white, maybe it's only coz it's a highly protected life or simply because one is colour blind!

This observation becomes very trivial when put in the perspective of social changes. After all
there were times when people thought Sati and child marriage were fine. Maybe after a century people will read in History about arranged marriages being the social evil of our times! Who knows?

But what interests me is the fact that even the evergreen concepts of freedom, liberty, crime, force are actually just some ideas of individuals that caught the fancy of the masses! Reading Plato's discourses one realises that were it not for Socrates and his determined tirade against what he thought was evil, these concepts that we cling to, take for granted would have been non-existent! What we call our morals are Socrates's proposals. What we call right was his hypothesis. The crime to us was the norm of days before him! How fragile are my beliefs then?

What I so emphatically proclaim as being right today might very well be banned by humanity tomorrow!