The writers or the directors always provide the audience with a bit of foreshadow, cautionary music, a pause in the action or some tricky dramatic effect that tunes in the audiences "uh huh" mechanism and we know somewhere somehow the bad guy will not win.
Do you ever wonder why in real life, we don't have the capabilities to find out when the bad guy will lose? Don't you wish that suddenly a crescendo of cascading chords could call out and remind us that this Congressman, this Senator, this Vice President, this President, this CEO this Wall Street Banker, Broker will finally get the same crap blown all over he/she as he/she has plummeted the average American with, over and over? I sure do!
Instead, the bad guy in this current American culture of wrong and greed, gluttony and no conscience, gets a book deal, dances with the stars, charges half a million dollars for the lecture circuit, retires with a golden parachute, and never once admits to anything bad. Never!
In the movies we know there is a beginning a middle an end. We know as we sit eating our popcorn, sipping our soft drinks, staring into the darkness, that eventually the agony will end, the torment will cease, the madness will putter out, the just reward will find its way to the just recipient. We know this and are comforted when it happens.
In real life, we are sitting by, by the skin of our teeth, by the sheer energy of angst, by the strings of a puppeteer. In real life we seem to think we have little to no choice in finding an ending to our story the way we prefer. Not the way our Politicians, or lobbyists, or crazy right wing conservatives or dogmatic unmovable religious zealots would like. We sit silent at times just hoping and praying, waiting and wishing. Why?
We can, if we really want, to write our ending, and let the bad guys pay the price, get their just reward, realize the consequences of their selfish, self loathing, actions. We can!
We have to stop the bad guys from winning.
Immediately.
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