Standing Up To Evil

I just came back watching Grindhouse by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. The first part Planet Terror leaves you so helpless( and numb) that the second feature Death Proof feels like pure heaven.
Death Proof is about a serial killer Mike(Kurt Russell) who is a stuntman and likes to kill women on the road by hitting them with his stunt car( and he always survives in the crash, and so calls his car Death Proof). He peacefully kills 4 women in Texas and is able to get away with it because they were drinking and he wasn't. He then goes over to Tennessee and tries to do it to 3 other women, one of whom is a stunt woman from Auckland. These 3 women decide to test ride a 1970 Dodge Challenger and Mike decides to go after them. And guess what? The women fight back...against all odds...fascinating. Not only do they survive, they give Mike a full pay back. It is great to see the glee in his eyes turn first to surprise, then terror and then pure helplessness. Ah!! the full force of retribution.

Well, we all know that not all stories take such a dramatic turn. None the less, they do provide inspiration and they do prove that there is a way to stand up to evil. Even psychopaths feel the pain and even they die...its just a matter to time and it is the matter of someone standing up to the tyranny. I can still feel the joy when Zoe Bell gets out of her car and starts smashing Mike with a metal pipe. I am sure that I am not the only one cheering her in the theatre..and then the whole chase and the final end to all misery with the axe kick. By the way, another lesson from the story. The first 4 women who got killed were drunk, the latter 3 were not...so if a serial killer is on the road, your chances of survival are better if are not drunk.