I have posted clips from The Cardinal and Richard III in which people are come to regret their naïve belief in and cooperation with, or at at least lack of resistance to, evil.
What about this one?
The Bridge on the River Kwai
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One of Sir Alec’s best screen moments. And a classic example of not seeing the forest for the trees.
Ever Catholic boy should be raised on this type of movie. We need to create heroes, and thank God for last minute conversions….
And still there are those who continue to assume the position and say “Thank you sir. May I have another.”
Good luck at seeing Kmiec really change sides.
Oh wow, I *love* this movie. Just watched it a couple months ago. Great film.
Although not based on an actual historical incident, and indeed criticized when it came out by those who had survived the Burma railway, the film deals not so much with collaboration as with the idea that if you can maintain discipline and unit cohesion you can increase your chances of survival and even secure a moral victory over your captors (had the colonel simply continued in his initial defiance, he would have died).
During the Korean War the death rate among American POWs was proportionally higher than for Commonwealth soldiers; in captivity the former tended to revert to becoming individuals, whereas the latter, with a stronger regimental tradition, were better able to sustain a unit identity. This was much studied by the US authorities afterwards and in Vietnam men had been trained in the art of survival under captivity. I remember a teach-in given by two US airmen who had been shot down over North Vietnam and taken prisoner; their testimony showed that this training had paid off.
Didn’t Cardinal Wolsey lament at the end of his life that he had been too much concerned with serving King Henry VIII and too little with serving the Lord?
bernadette, in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, Wolsey states to Cromwell,
O Cromwell, Cromwell!
Had I but served my God with half the zeal
I served my King, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Also, the same plea is stated in A Man for All Seasons when Wolsey is dying.
I like this one:
Another version is the farmer takes the snake home to warm itself by the fire, but when it threatens his wife and children the farmer cuts it’s head off with an an axe.
November, 2012
You may ask yourself, what is that beautiful house?
You may ask yourself, where does that highway lead to?
You may ask yourself, am I right, am I wrong?
You may say to yourself, my god, what have I done?
Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime
It’s said that even Lenin seems to have had deathbed regrets – if not actual repentance (but who can know?) when he is supposed to have admitted: “I committed a great error. My nightmare is to have the feeling that I’m lost in an ocean of blood from the innumerable victims. It is too late to return. To save our country, Russia, we would have needed men like Francis of Assisi. With ten men like him we would have saved Russia.”