Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ignorant Texans are the targets, and Scenarist Hellman blows the lid off a snake pit of contemporary evil when the town's bad boy, Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford), escapes from prison and heads home to settle scores among a scroungy lot of drunken, wife-swapping, white-collar workers who carry their pistols to parties of a Saturday night. "Shoot a man for sleepin' with someone's wife?" cries a roundheeled young matron, Janice Rule. "Half the town 'ud be wiped out." Poor Bubber's Mama (Miriam Hopkins), cast as Parental Guilt, hysterically accepts blame...
...pact, and the pair drive into a nearby river. Frantz's tape-recorded voice goes on sermonizing in the library: "The century might have been a good one, had not man been watched from time immemorial by the cruel enemy who had sworn to destroy him, that hairless, evil, flesh-eating beast -man himself...
...best expressed by Ortega y Gasset when he said: "The condition of man is essential uncertainty. Man feels himself lost, shipwrecked." Nor can Sartre, as an atheist, accept the dispensation of Christian grace, which redeems the sinner without denying the sin. In Sartre's world, the problem of evil is as shallow as Narcissus' pool. The self accuses, judges, justifies and condemns the self...
...legend that God and the Devil were brothers, and relates it to the equally ancient conception of the androgyne (hermaphrodite) as a mystical symbol of wholeness; both stories, Eliade argues, represent man's prephilosophic attempt to reconcile the existence in the world of such opposites as good and evil...
...Both you and I know how hard it is to overcome evil with good, and it is certainly impossible to overcome evil with evil. Yet that is exactly the heart of our foreign policy," he said...