It is surprising—how in history, always the good guys win. Or is it like, we consider those as good who win?
Before buying anything, you would read the description, so why not read the disclaimer without buying entertainment? Why are the rules changing over here?
Whatever we are consuming is entertainment, and these movies are supposed to be looked at as only a form of art. I don’t find anything regretful in this trend of sympathizing with Villans because what trends we are talking about just come and go. They don’t need to be an integral part of the story; their aim is just to catch the attention of the audience, and it does that very well. Now I don’t need to make you count many illogical and unethical trends in today's movies.
Nowadays people are so used to watching the same hero win the battle, the castle, the queen, and happily ever after stories. They need some change in their platter, and hence villains also need a change. Why should the hero have all the fun? Do you know about the halo and horn effect? The horn effect basically says, You do 100 right things, but 1 wrong and it is significantly glamorized. The same is happening with these sympathized and empathized villains.
You all might know Marvels, right? For some, Thanos was a villain, but for some, he was not. For the US, Oppenheimer was a hero; for Japan, he was a villain. Basically, the concept of heroes and villains is relative. It's subjective to what you think it is. While in this arena of movies, there is no static line between good and bad. What Ranbir Kapoor did in Animal was violent, but he is the hero because he is fighting for justice and he can't be the villain. Also, in this case, no one is sympathizing with him but admiring him. …. Movies are a mess, and so does this sympathisation of villans .
Leo Tolstoy says that we should portray characters in a way that people won't feel the need to replicate. Just like Anna Karena, Gone With The Winter... At some point, we do sympathize with those villains, but the end goes to a worse point, and we know it is wrong; we are not going to mimic it but just leave that story as a part of the entertainment. There’s nothing to regret about consuming such sort of entertainment. As many people, as many perspectives. These things are in because people are tired of watching that same storyline when Villian is the looser. They need something new.
Additionally, what I feel one more reason behind not being regretful is that you feel this is so because we humans need someone to blame each and every time. Victimization of yourself has taken up a part in our lives, and we find these villains to be quite relatable, so we really want to look up to them, but the societal norms and values have developed this pressure over us that we are not free to love a villain, so we are somewhere in between when we are empathizing with them, and at the same point, the blame game continues, which shows how it influences the masses.
No, it's not that one movie that has made you’re child go and take revenge; it was his internal anger suppressed by societal norms. So you now blame the villain, which I feel is absolutely incorrect. At the heart of this matter, what I have figured out is that humans by default are multifaceted. We are the ones who appreciated this trend; now it's our responsibility to respect every emotion.
Sometimes we come across stories of the villanization of socialism and a very classist perspective. The youth support that perspective because this is the age-old issue that they are raising. There won't be anyone sitting among us who loves to visit a bank to go and do that tedious stuff, and we ignore it. The movie makers have just picked this very loophole of human behavior and sketched villains who are doing all those things that we ignore...
In the end, I will just quote a dailouge from a movie, it goes like, "People always like the story of truth, not the truth.".
- aditi
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