In My Name Is Khan, Rizwan's mother teaches him the lesson that there are two kinds of people in this world - good people who do good things and bad people who do bad things.
But is it really easy to segregate people like that? I have always believed that there are no clearly 'white' or 'black' people, but that there are people with plenty of shades of grey.
Imagine a scenario, where a genuinely nice person commits one wrong deed - does this mean that he is wrong? Or if a terrorist, who has the blood of thousands on his hands, saves the life of one man - is it enough to pardon him of all his crimes?
I like to think of myself as a person who has never intentionally hurt anyone...but there might be times, when I have hurt others. Which category does this put me into - black or white?
Which is why I said that we exist in shades of grey. Most of us are good people, but there might be times, when our passions or desire to succeed or the vision of happiness makes us do things, we wouldn't generally do.
Perhaps, this is why, it is important to look at people in their totality, rather than judging them on the basis of any singular act.
2 comments:
I think that the message that the director in the movie tried to give was rather good and somewhat had some commonality with your points yet too melodramatic. As u suggest shades of grey well people are really cruel and that is no shade Those who are cruel know what they are doing and get pleasure out of inflicting sadistic,benumbing pain physical and mental intentionally on their victims.
Thanks for the comment maam!!
And I think, somewhere, we have individually come across such people......those who find pleasure in the pain of others....
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