There’s a philosophical question buried under the onslaught of visuals, sounds, and humans in Locked: If we are doing something deeply immoral, in order for a deeply moral thing to take place, is it justified? In the absence of the immoral act (say, murder) , the moral act (say, saving someone’s life) cannot take place. For the moral act to take place, the immoral act must precede it. In both cases we end up in a world where the zero-sum is the same. So what then do we pursue?
locked (2020)
There’s a philosophical question buried under the onslaught of visuals, sounds, and humans in Locked: If we are doing something deeply immoral, in order for a deeply moral thing to take place, is it justified? In the absence of the immoral act (say, murder) , the moral act (say, saving someone’s life) cannot take place. For the moral act to take place, the immoral act must precede it. In both cases we end up in a world where the zero-sum is the same. So what then do we pursue?
