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Movies that Represent Evil

Many movies represent something evil and here are two movies that I believe represent something evil; or a character in them represents evil.

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This movie by itself doesnt neccessarily represent evil, but rather the character Anakin Skywalker.  Throughout the movie is being drawn to the dark side, while still trying to retain his "goodness."  Eventually, though the urge to save Padme, his wife, sends him over the brink.  To gain more power he kills all of the "younglings" or the jedi apprentices.  Finally, after fighting his mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and being burned horribly by lava, he becomes Darth Vader, one of the most evil beings of his time.  The result of this is the death of Padme in childbirth.  He started out with good intentions but his lust for power eventually destroyed him and the one he truly loved.

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Disturbia is a movie that is designed to create terror or the illusion of terror for the time you are watching it, and even afterwards.  It is a movie about a teenage boy, on house arrest, who begins to suspect his neighbor of being a serial killer.  Enlisting the help of his best friend and the girl next door they begin to investigate, only to discover that the neighbor truly is a killer.  The movie represents evil, first of all, because of the killer who is without remorse, murdering for pleasure.  Then there is the aspect of the killer next door.  There's the fear of the unknown; how do you know what is out there.  This could happen to anyone of us.  The movie is showing that the evil could be in anyone.