Yo, what up niggaz? This is Jim Buckingham Talkinz on the Interwebz lol! YO guess what happened last week? So, I was mad stressin' for this paper that I had to hand in for my first year philosophizzle class. So I goes to the movies to relax and me and Fat Billy smoke a huge gagger right before. We wanted to go see that "Homemade Pormo Movie" directed by that fat fag Kevin Smits, but we were so blasted we accidentally went to see The Punishster! lol! long story short, I am startin at the screen waiting to see some titties and what happens? Just head after head explodes now I was mad ripped but I am smarts and i figured out after a bit that I was watching the Punished.Yo that movie had absolutely not tits or vag, but holy shit did it have shitloads of exploding heads! That shit was fuckin' awesome. I was cryin' right there in the theatre it was so awesome and Billy was like yo keep your sobbin' down its bad enough two dudes going to see a mive together and you gotta be crying but i just could not help it itwas to emotional!
So, billy and me just stay and watch the whole movie. Afterward, I was still high as fuck and I get on the bus and I am like SHIT SON I HAVE TO WRITE A PAPER FOR TOMORROW>! I was madd stressin dog! So I gets back to my dorm, hit the bong and I just get to writin' Something comes over me and bfore I know it, I got like two pages written!
Now there was no limit on how many pages we had to write so I was like shit son I am DONE! I looks at the clock and I had been writing for like four hours! The birds were outside chirpin and shit. I figure it's gotta be good because i have never written that much in my entire life andi guess it must have been good because my prefesser said it was the best in the class!
So, without a further dew, here it isL Peace out mah higgaz:
Deepr theme in Teh Punisher: Warzone>
by: Jim Buckingham
PHIL 1006: Introduction to Philosophy
The Punisher: Warzone may seem on the surface to be a mere action film, but upon closer inspection, very vrey deep themes indeed come to teh fore.
Hardship, loss, vengeance, anger, and many other themes are deeply rooted in the labyrinth and multiovarite story, much like the multi-levelled building in the final scene. It is filled with all manner of evil-dioers: Black Evil Doers, Chinese Evil-Doers, Punk Rock Evil Does, let your heart's content be the limit of the evil doers in this building. The building is symbolic of the many levels of evil coursing through the soul of mans. Whether the evil inside of you is of the Black, Chinese, or Punk Rock varietty, rest assured that there are many different types of evil in your veins.
It is this evil that threatens to take over the Punisher himself. He crosses the line once in the movie by accidentally killing an undercover police officer. As the policeman dies, the punisher looks into his jacket and finds a badge. The Punisher then escapes amidst a hail of gunfire, symbolizing of course his own guilt and desire to die. He has accomplished the exact opposite of what he wanted to by klling the pocliman. That is tragic and noevertheless human.
After killing the cop, the Punisher desices that it may be time to hang up the 'ol killin' guns. After all, he has created for the family of the man he killed the exact same dilemma that caused him to begin Punishing in the first placeL. As we all know, the Punisher was created when his family was killed by teh maphia/. He then begn a toi take vengeance unpon evil in all forms.
But, what happens when we become that things that we loathe most in the whole wide world?
The Punisher is so stricken with grief that he breaks down and cries. We find out later in the movie that the Punisher used to be very religious. However, I get the impression that he is no longer believes in God. And, in a world without God, all that is left is anarchy. In the abscence of God or decency, the Punisher has made himself into a God-like figure, passing judgement on the souls of mans.
Ultimately, the Punisher deciseds that he will kill the gangsters who are threatening to kill the dead policeman's wife and child. Kill or bne killed. Then, he will retire. It is clear that through this action, he hopes to make reparations for the pain he has caused the family by killing the family dad.
The Punisher often chooses to kill his victims in the most gruesome and awesome way possible. This is to make their deaths sympbolic of the way they lived theur lives: in gruesome.
For instance, At one point he blows a man up with an RPG missile. This sympobolizes the semi-permanence of man. One day you are there and the next day you are exploded in a steamy hail of roasted guts. This was both gruesome and awesome and it made me laugh a klittle.
Another time in the movie, the Punisher shoves the leg of a chair through the eyeball of a man, causing me to exclaim OH!". This symbolizes how the mundaneity of everyday existence can be more violent than war. Ask yourself What could be more mundane than a chair? the answer is nothing. Aks youreslf again what could be more violent than having a chair choved through your eyeball and into your barain? the Answer again, is clearly nothing". Everyday mandane existence is therefore more violent than war, which is clearly the hidden meaning of the title Punisher:Warzone, which does not in fact take place in a war zone, but turns everyday life into a war zone. It takes the warzome lurking beheath hte surface of every Day existense and exposes it, recuntaxtualizeing it as a living, breathing War Zeone.
Secondly, at another point in the movie, the Punisher decides to punch through the very face of a man, transforming it into nothing more than hamburger with ears. He does this with one swift blow. Much as God acts decisively, raining floods upon man throughout history without warning, so the Punisher acts decisively, raining a fist upon the face of a man and truning it into a flood of blood.
There is a main bad guy in the Punisher: Warson. His name is Jigsaw. Early in the film, the Punisher throws him into a glass recyccler, causing him to become horribly disfigured. If loss has caused the Punisher has become GOd, then Jigsaw's loss has caused him to become the devil, evil in carnate. He murders the plastic surgeon who reconstructed his faice even though the plastic surgeon did his best. I ask you what is more evil than killing someone who did their best?
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The man who used to be Jigsaw lovced his faec so much. Now, with a busted ass face, what is he to do? The thing he loved most in the whole world, his face, was taken away from him. Much like the way that the punisher's family was taken from him. This show the duality of good and evil, and how sometimes thet are very similar. Both the Punisher and Jigsaw decide to murder but one of them is good and one is bad.
Much like the Devil has minions, so too does Jigsaw have minions. His brother whose nmae I cannot rememver is super crazy and can doo all kinds of marshall arts and etc. He smashes mirrors with his head just for fun.
This terrible twosome represents the idea that, as one's standards become lower, so to do the people we compare ourselves to to determine if we are still Good. It is only by comparing the Punisher with Jigsaw and his crazy brother that the Punisher still seems good. if we compare the Punisher to say, the Grate One Wayne Gretzky then the Punisher is evil.
Eventually, the Punisher prevails, killing many many many bad guys by exploding their heads. However, he ends up losing his friend who is played by that guys who played "Newman" on The Signfield's. He is forced to make a choice by Jigsaw to either let the wife of the dead cop and her daughter die or to let Newman die. Instead, the Punisher decided to take revenge by shooting Jigsaw. Then, Jigsaw shhoots Newman anyway. Thuis represxents the futility of trying amything. either way, Jigsaw had the Punisher in a Shanghai Surprise and there was no way out of it. Somethime we are forced to decide among many undesirable decisions. Such is the nature of life.
In the end, the Punisher decides to continue killing rogue bad guys. It is who he has become. Not only does he now view himself as God, but he also does not know what else to do. He has so much anger inside of him that will only be quenched by death. Is the Punisher evil? If he is, then you and I are equally evil, indulging in the mundanity of our daily existence. Much like the chair that the Punisher rammed through the eyeball of a bad guys, we are nothing more than inanimate objects, bristling along the winds of fate. Until we take charge of our own destinites, like the Punisher has, we will not be able to be more than a chair, and we will probably definitely never be Wayne Gretski.
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