The Equalizers Review: A lay man at the late fifties works in a hardware store. Sets his clock for almost every incident, and for every action goes around. Disciplined as the earth revolves around the sun. Deep secrets lie within. Apparently, his past doesnt hold much importance. Every night he walks to a small diner in his vicinity. Sits at his usual table, and reads a book. Hooker asks about the outcome of the book hes having. She couldnt wait to hear the answer. She excuses him. Her client arrives, while her pimp on the phone ordering her to ride. The other day, they meet. Same question she throws: Does the fisherman get the big fish? He tells the outcome, but emphasizes that it cannot be taken from one perspective. It depends on the mechanism one uses to define the outcome. Neither good nor bad take place in some situations. They depend on the involved variables. She ought to end their discussion, as she goes with her brutal client again to be beaten harshly. The following day, she meets with him, and they walk around. The pimp arrives, snatches the girl, and beats her up. Our guy never attempts to change circumstances then. He might have been thinking of the outcomes if hes to be involved. She was made a good example for her co-workers in case they think of disobeying orders. Orders of shame dont really matter if power is the case. People have to obey orders from top. However, when some believe they can change the system, scenarios certainly differ. He follows the gang. Offers bundle of money for the ladys eternal freedom, but he was mocked badly, as her job is more profitable. Got insulted and threatened, but crossing the lines, especially when it comes to justice, good people take initiatives to end evil and others miseries. Yet, goodness is not to be spread easily. Unpleasant implications will be the price. Who are those gangs, and who are behind them? How dirty are they, and to what extent their retaliation might be? Everyones job is to balance the community, maintains peace and delivers justice. Nevertheless, how few are those who are willing to take such rocky tracks by committing to actions, rather than sayings, and accept and handle consequences. Ethics is redefined in The Equalizer. The core ethical concept, the movie displays, lies in the degree of the willingness one adopts to prevent injustice and redress victims in order to make them re-function in a healthier way in their societies, based on their freedom of choice, not by coercing milieus. How many are being victimized by the eyes of the people by prejudices over their appearances and jobs, ignoring their motivations or their circumstances? Only tiny minority can understand that some bad situations cannot be fixed by contempts, nor by preachings. Justice, after all, is all peoples right. Even criminals deserve justice, but their justice leads to another destinies. Destinies that take the equivalent shape of the crimes committed. Criminal should be offered paths of reforms, before taking actions against them, albeit retribution must be the direct parallel action. The movie is massively filled with goodness and evil, corruption and anti-corruption, knowledge and ignorance, and love and hate. Denzel Washington is always at his best, but in The Equalizer he goes beyond perfection to play one of his best characters. As ethical as Socrates, as disciplined as Professors and as skilled as highly-ranked specialized undercover agents, through which he colors his movie.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 18:18:41 +0000