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"We must always fear the wicked. But there is another kind of evil that we must fear the most, and that is the indifference of good men. "

At the heart of the film The Boondock Saints is a message telling the audience to stand up for what you believe in, and take matters into your hands when it comes dealing with the corrupt. At the beginning of this film, the viewers are told of the murder of Kitty Genovese, in which a young girl was stabbed to death while dozens of people watched the event take place. This, in essence, serves as the backbone for the point of the movie. The movie is a display of how two brothers (through the word/approval of God) maneuver through the city of Boston while discarding of societal corruption. The victims of their purgings are all rapists, drug dealers, murders, and various criminals.

The film advocates that good men must learn to intervene when we notice corruption and moral disobedience. For if the good men just stand around and watch the bad men live on, they in essence are equally as corrupt and evil.

The tendency people have to turn into spectators during times of violence scares the hell out of me. I myself have been an example of someone to watch something go on that I shouldn’t have allowed; however, it was nowhere near as catastrophic as the instance of Kitty Genovese.

This movie, although showing an extreme approach, does offer hope to society by implying that we can change, no, we must change.