Bennett's Phylactery
Bennett's Phylactery

@extradeadjcb

4 Tweets 2 reads Feb 15, 2023
libs love this genre of take
"Uh, did you not notice that Walter White is actually bad?? And he dies at the end??"
They're generally right about the creator's intent
These portraits make it through the system because they teach young men that any act of will outside law & custom will destroy them spiritually
If you want to lie & steal & kill people you're supposed to join the CIA
It should get your attention that even after decades of this endlessly deconstructive, endlessly morally subversive media environment where supposedly nothing is sacred, you've never once seen a character who challenges *these* moral lines & gets away with it
Hell or High Water comes closest - & provides a priceless hint at how a man might fight the law without losing his soul

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