The way Hollywood’s scriptwriters come up with lines are sometimes just absolutely brilliant and cuts to the core of the heart with a mere sentence or two compared to a compendium of volumes.
The for example, the movie Spiderman 2.
Peter Parker (aka Spiderman), when at battle’s end with his arch-nemesis Dr. Octopus (Dr. Otto Octavius), pleaded with him with the words, “sometimes, we have to give up our dreams and do the right thing”.
Wow, that was just a masterpiece. Now, if only a mere fraction of our politicians, our captains-of-industries and ourselves would just pay heed to it… imagine what a truly nobler and more wonderful world we would bestow our children and their children’s children. If only we would stop ourselves from becoming ugly just to achieve our dreams of fame, fortune and power and look towards the things that really do matter in life (and thereafter, too!) like honour, dignity, charity and integrity… oh, there aren’t any words to describe what a heaven it would be.
Going back to the movie, the punch-line came when Dr. Octavius has a change of heart, remembering how he had once preached that everyone ought to have used technology for the betterment of mankind and not seek to dominate others sacrificed himself to disarm the fusion machine that he had created which by now, had spun out of control.
In sinking it and killing himself in the process, he cries out “I will not die a monster!”
Now if only everyone of us had that sense of nobleness to not be remembered in life as monsters. Yes, it is and will always still be possible to do that, even at the very last second of our natural lives. We can choose and determine our last course of action with our last breath to do the right thing… or not. We’ll need to be a bigger person than we already are to take on a feat that is truly at the heart of what it means to “be human” as opposed to being a beast.
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