Moral Event Horizon/Film: Difference between revisions

* The bullies (especially the male ones, particulary their leader Anders, Paul, and few others) and, by extension, almost ''the entire class'' from the Estonian film ''Klass'', cross this line. Their treatment towards Joseph and Kasparr is very cruel and despicable, even for bullies. In the beginning of movie, they bully and belittle Joseph in a basketball game, then fully undress him and push him into the girl's changing room. This was so bad that it made Kaspar, one of the bullies, [[Heel Face Turn|have a change of heart]] and become Joseph's friend after realizing what he has been doing. Then the bullies begin targeting both Joseph and Kaspar and their bullying gets worse: stealing Joseph's notebook and not giving him it back, later forcing Joseph to apologise for telling the teacher about their bullying, cutting and stealing his shoes, assaulting him both at school and out of it, calling Joseph and Kaspar homosexuals because they are friends, sending them insulting notes, framing Kaspar for Joseph's bullying. Later, they begin beating Joseph and Anders kicks him in the stomach several times. After that, they still want to force Joseph to apologise for telling about their bullying. The girls of the class also join the bullying by laughing at Joseph's suffering, insulting him, and supporting the bullies. After Joseph consequently tells his parents about their bullying and they inform the school about the class bullying Joseph, the class choose to blame Joseph for everything, despite the fact that they were the ones who started bullying Joseph. Wanting revenge, they call both Kaspar and Joseph into going to beach by writing emails to them showing each other as the fake sender. If you don't think they have crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] a while ago, you most likely see this point as crossing that crucial line for the remotest of antagonist sympathy. They {{spoiler|force Kaspar to fellate Joseph at knife point and photograph the sexual act without showing the knife}}, emotionally breaking both Kaspar and Joseph by doing this, and they simply laugh at their suffering. Even worse, before doing this, Paul, one of the bullies, thinks that '''''this is not evil enough'''''. This finally pushes Joseph and Kaspar over the edge and thus leads them to {{spoiler|stealing the guns from Joseph's father, going into the school, and killing the bullies to avenge themselves}}. While the ending is terrifying, {{spoiler|the class brought it on themselves, and those who escaped the shooting will have to deal with the fact that the people they cruelly bullied almost killed them}}. The only people from Joseph's class who escape this territory are Joseph and Kaspar, Kaspar's ex-girlfriend Thea (although she's no saint herself as she broke up with Kaspar because he was protecting Joseph and participated in their bullying herself), who was disgusted with the aforementioned {{spoiler|fellating}}, and Kerli, the goth girl of the class and the only one who did not participate in the class bullying of Joseph and Kaspar and was disgusted with the class' treatment of the two boys (a few scenes indicating that the class teased her too due to this). Joseph and Kaspar {{spoiler|allow her to leave the cafeteria, before they begin to shoot the bullies}}. Made worse by the fact that the film was based on [[Real Life]] events.

** Joseph and Kaspar themselves arguably crossed it with their {{spoiler|school shooting}}, though it's not ''at all'' hard to see how and why they came to it.

** Donald Menken from the same film also had one of these moments: he not only framed Harry for Max Dillon's accident, but {{spoiler|got him fired from Oscorp, leaving him to die a penniless wreck while taunting him about his approaching death from Norman's inheritable disease like the slimy asshole he is.}}

* From Sam Raimi's [[Spider-Man]] films, we had the Green Goblin/Norman Osborn cross it in the first movie when he forced Spider-Man to choose between saving Mary-Jane or a lift full of ''children'' from falling to their deaths. He had other moments that could qualify such as setting a building on fire to lure Spider-Man to him or hospitalizing Aunt May, a ''harmless old woman'' to get to Peter, but it was this [[Sadistic Choice]] that showed how low the Goblin could sink when it comes to hurting Spider-Man.