Just got back from watching Kick-Ass and, o m g I so wanna go get suited up and get out there and right some wrongs!!!
What an outstanding film. Not without flaws, but they are paled by the sheer awesomeness that is the rest of it. As a confessed geek, I know that so many people (just like me) have at one point (or maybe many points) stood in front of a mirror, busting moves worthy of taking down super-villains. Just like Dave (the eponymous Kick Ass). And therein lies the genius of this film that assures it's place in the Geekdom Hall of Fame - there is so much in those 105 minutes that comic fans and superhero lovers can relate to. OK so I have yet to don a wetsuit and get stabbed in the gut, but the dream is there!!! (??!?)
Which makes you think, or at least it makes ME think. What if. Not like "what if I dressed up and went vigilante style on some crims". What if people didn't turn the other cheek. This is what drives Dave to the lengths he goes to; when people get mugged and others see but pretend not too. When people get beaten but the passerby fails to step in. Hell, even when someone falls over and no one offers a hand. What if. What if the third party spoke up? What if the twenty people watching someone getting beaten all stepped in? The three guys laying into the guy on the ground sure as hell wouldn't hang around.
The film also answers this to a certain extent - we're all too afraid to lose what we have, be that by humiliation, injury or (god forbid) death. Which is understandable. The problem is that by doing nothing we DO lose something - a piece of our humanity, our society and even our self-respect.
When Dave faces the above situation, he utters a couple of lines which I wish everyone on this planet could take into their hearts and believe in. When asked if he would die for this guy that he doesn't even know he replies "three assholes, laying it in one guy while everyone else watches? And you wanna know what's wrong with me?!!? Yeah, I'd rather die... so bring it on!"
Unfortunately in the real world where our souls have already been devalued by modern life, losing a small part of our humanity can be more appealing than losing everything else. I'm not preaching - I'm the same.
Well, maybe just a little different.
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