I have no desire to watch someone making and selling drugs
“I have no desire to watch someone making and selling drugs”
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It’s great-—and doesn’t glamorize drugs. There is an ugly world out there and this shows it.
I hate drugs,murder,and robberies,but have seen great films on those topics.
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Very little of the show is making and selling. The moral dilemmas and the guy’s process of trying to make good out of a bad situation, only making things worse, is something on a human level (not bible-believing christian level) that one can relate to, but not celebrate.
It’s like on a base level, you can understand why he did it, but you wouldn’t do it.
To me the show was a great metaphor for how a secular person tries to solve their problems. Their solutions - not based on anything biblical - solutions devised by man alone - only go on to make matters worse - even when they are trying with the best of intentions. They could have used anything - drugs was just a story mechanism. It could have been other things. If it was about a person facing a tragedy who decided to do something else illegal to make money, it could have worked with that.
It is a story about morals and rationalization. That’s why it worked. Because everyone still has a sin nature and it’s a story - to me, because the guy was not a christian, there were no churches, prayers, at all in the story - about how natural man, when he tries to make things right, just screws things up more.
And because it ran this way, it came across as REAL, plausible. For a secular guy to end up this way, rationalizing more and more of his choices that get darker and darker.
I tend to be the same way. The last thing I generally care to watch is anything having to do with druggies or dope-pushers. I have such a strong, visceral revulsion towards them both. Same thing with any kind of teleplay involving child molesters. Both topics can very conceivably lead to a good drama, aesthetically speaking, but they just dredge up too much anger and hate in me to really allow me to get involved in the story.
Yet, I can’t deny I watched an old “Untouchables” episode the other day, which ‘did’ involve the unsavory activities of a drug kingpin. At least it had the satisfying ending of presenting the said gentleman appropriately perforated like a pin-cushion via a hail of bullets.
I don’t watch much ... But I never miss “Vikings” on the history channel.
It doesn’t glorify the drug trade or drug users in any way. And the writing is just fantastic.