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is virtually no effort to distinguish the difference between
good and evil in this movie, a trait that often times makes
the horror genre enjoyable. Instead we see evil, against the
individual who has little help or conscious. Many open-ended
story lines are sure to open the movie itself up to a sequel.
Hopefully if/and when those sequels come along there will be
more of an effort to develop the characters of the story as
well as incorporate a contrast to the evil presented in the
film. Without some measure of hope, I personally find the
horror form rather disturbing. If asking the right questions
the disturbing concept behind horror can still be of value, but
when scaring someone just for the sake of scaring them is the
purpose, which I believe is the case in The Boogeyman, then I
have little value for the form.
--Michael Furches
Alas, then the sun goes in again, and we are back in
the kingdom of fantasy, where it is goodness that is flat and boring,
and evil that is varied and attractive, profound, intriguing and
full of charm.
--Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990)
Even in evil, that dark cloud that hangs over creation,
we discern rays of light and hope and gradually come to see, in suffering
and temptation, proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes
of wisdom and love.
--William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) |
ON GOOD AND EVIL
Evil is that which is contrary to the nature and will of God. Wickedness;
the opposite of goodness; that which has been tainted by sin. The
Bible does not reveal the origin of evil, except to say that satan
was the first to commit it. The Bible does affirm, however, that
God has it under his control.
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Thes. 5:22
Keep away from every kind of evil.
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