Will to Survive
I watched a movie a day or two ago. If you know me, you know I like scary movies. I rented a movie titled 'The Saw II.' When I rented it I thought it was going to be another stupid scary movie with no plot and lots of violence. However, I found it engaging and intriguing.
While it is a violent movie and I didn't see number 1, I'll try to explain why I liked it. It's about a man who is diagnosed with cancer which triggers a need for him to test the human will to survive. The opening scene shows a man that is faced with the dilemma of cutting out his own eye to get a key to a device that will kill him in 60 seconds if he doesn't do it. Twisted? Yes, but the pretense of the scenario continues through the entire movie with a surprising end.
How strong is the human will to survive? Strong enough to face the enormous amount of pain that cutting out your own eye would definitely cause? Take the pain away for a second. Would you be willing to cut out your own eye and face blindness, infection, or hemorrhage? It got me to thinking.
The villain of the movie has hand selected the test subjects based on their life of sin. One is a drug dealer who must jump into a pit of syringes to find a key and on and on it goes. It made me reflect a bit on what it will be like to be accountable for our sin someday. We will all have to give an account for our actions and stand in judgement, unless of course you have been covered by the blood of Jesus.
Covered by the blood? That could open a whole other discussion about the human will to survive. How strong is your will? Of course, God doesn't want us simply because we have a will to survive. He created us to commune with him in relationship, but it still begs the question...how strong is your will to survive?
While it is a violent movie and I didn't see number 1, I'll try to explain why I liked it. It's about a man who is diagnosed with cancer which triggers a need for him to test the human will to survive. The opening scene shows a man that is faced with the dilemma of cutting out his own eye to get a key to a device that will kill him in 60 seconds if he doesn't do it. Twisted? Yes, but the pretense of the scenario continues through the entire movie with a surprising end.
How strong is the human will to survive? Strong enough to face the enormous amount of pain that cutting out your own eye would definitely cause? Take the pain away for a second. Would you be willing to cut out your own eye and face blindness, infection, or hemorrhage? It got me to thinking.
The villain of the movie has hand selected the test subjects based on their life of sin. One is a drug dealer who must jump into a pit of syringes to find a key and on and on it goes. It made me reflect a bit on what it will be like to be accountable for our sin someday. We will all have to give an account for our actions and stand in judgement, unless of course you have been covered by the blood of Jesus.
Covered by the blood? That could open a whole other discussion about the human will to survive. How strong is your will? Of course, God doesn't want us simply because we have a will to survive. He created us to commune with him in relationship, but it still begs the question...how strong is your will to survive?
posted by Troy at 10:41 AM
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Quote: "When I rented it I thought it was going to be another stupid scary movie with no plot and lots of violence."
So you knowingly rented a movie with no plot and full of violence just for the cheap act of watching people die and realized that you were unlucky enough to have made a mistake and gotten a movie with a plot (but still lots of violence) and then realized that maybe you were lucky because you liked the plot (and all of the violence) and thought that you would introduce yourself to us (the moral compass that you are) by admitting that you like to watch lots of senseless violence?
The short answer is yes. Sometimes I enjoy the escape from reality and like to watch thrillers.
Although I walked away with a moral sense from that movie, you are right, I probably should have given more thought to the subject I was going to write on the debut of the Your Moral Compass blog. I have yet to win a debate with you in our entire relationship as friends. I guess that's why admire you, because of your genius.
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