“What Goes Up…
…must come down.” There is a movie, new to DVD, that you may be interested in checking out called What Goes Up. Admittedly, most critics gave it a poor review. But what do they know?
Like all good stories, this movie asks some intriguing questions.
The film is about heroism. Why do we need heroes? And what makes a true hero anyway? No simplistic answers here. People are never all good or all bad. Each one of us has the capability of doing something horrendously evil or amazingly good at any given moment. We idolize our heroes, putting them up on pedestals. But people are always more complicated and contradictory. Bad people sometimes do good things. And good people often do bad things. Sometimes people do something wonderful even while in the midst of being bad, and vice versa. Don’t mistake complex and textured character development for moral relativism here.
This movie is about the shallowness of hero worship and the need for honest relationships based on love and long-suffering. Understanding human nature is confusing and difficult. Things are seldom what they seem. People are like icebergs. What you see is only the tip. It may sparkle in the sunshine, but there is a hulking mass below the surface ready to sink the Titanic if given half a chance.
Remember that what goes up, must eventually come down and that there is a cloud in front of every silver lining.
