Night at the Nauseum

I watched this stinker with my daughter the other night. I like some of Ben Stiller's work but anyone could have played his role in this movie.

Not end of review.

OK. I admit that I tend to be overly serious. That fault surely had something to do with my wholesale embracing of Objectivism years back and it was probably not the best thing for me in that sense. But my awareness of liberalism allows me to often see it where other's shrug it off and say that I'm making too much of it. Well, so be it, but here it is:

In Night at the Museum, there's a scene where Stiller confronts Attila the Hun who wants to tear him limb from limb. Stiller, psychoanalyzes Attila, pointing out that his need to hurt others comes from being hurt himself as a child. While Attila's dad was out plundering and pillaging (didn't mention raping), poor little Attila was abandoned at home. Well, this leads to a realization and subsequent bawling like a baby by Atilla who now is a nice guy who wants to be friends. Hilarity ensues...

Well, yes, it's a comedy movie and not to be taken seriously. BUT, let's face it -- this is a pillar of belief of liberals. No one is really implacably evil. Why, they're just misunderstood and society is to blame. All it takes is getting in communication with your enemies, stop doing things that make them mad, and in no time at all they're gonna put their differences aside and become our friends. This is the basis of their so-called Foreign Policy. It is how they feel about murderers and rapists. Prison doesn't rehabilitate they say so they should be freed. OR, they claim that terrible criminals HAVE been rehabilitated and so should be freed. The criminal, Tookie Williams, who murdered a 7/11 employee execution style must be released because he has written children's books in prison. He's not bad anymore so what's all this about paying one's debt to society? They believe in the absolute workability of rehabilitation, yet no one has come up with any reliable, proven way to rehabilitate anyone. Threat of punishment works when the threat is severe and actually carried out. No one executed has ever committed another crime. Separation of criminals from the public obviously protects the public. But none of that matters to liberals, all that matters is rehabilitation. They truly believe in it and that is the basis of the joke in this movie. There, I've said it.