Film-critical Note to Self

I just saw a film on Netflix called The Suicide Theory (2015), directed by Dru Brown.  A very violent film it is, centering on the doings of an assassin named Steve, who is hired by a gay man named Percival to kill him (Percival himself, that is).  You see, Percival has tried to commit suicide numerous times since he lost his lover, Christopher and has been unsuccessful.  Percival has come to believe in Fate and that he will die only when he wants to live, when he is is not expecting death. Percival asks Steve to be creative and kill him at the proper time.  We witness several horrific attempts at killing Percival and he survives them.  Steve kills other people, but he is having a hard time with Percival.  Steve himself, like Percival, is psychologically depressed, as he is mourning the loss of his pregnant wife, killed in a hit and run accident.  We witness a bond of understanding develop between these two main characters.  Psychiatrist Elizabeth Kubler Ross, theorist on death and grief, is mentioned by Percival as contributing to his thoughts and beliefs on 'fate, astrology and God.'  Steve wants Percival to read Voltaire's 'Candide,' which will enrich his take on Fate and the place of pessimism and evil in our world.                                     

It turns out that Percival was the driver of the vehicle that killed Steve's wife and that Steve murdered Christopher, Percival's lover; truly a coincidence that would support a doctrine of Fate in which things happen for a reason or according to some higher purpose.  The writers of the screenplay (Michael and Joseph Kospiah) lead me to wonder about fate and reality, free will and determinism, good and evil.  Sadly I must admit I know not the truth of these matters.  Am I lucky to be alive? Percival and Steve have been told that they are lucky to be alive and I know they don't believe it.

One Speck of Evil

One speck of evil in the world is too much.  Evil is or ought to be evidence (to a human mind) that there is a better world/existence somewhere else.