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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 6292613" data-attributes="member: 9213">I'm sorry that you place a higher value on the people who misinterpret and really miss the point of these stories as opposed to the actual stories being told. And the actual stories arent tales of glorification. It's "this life seems awesome at first. But then the person you think is your best friend is gonna whack you and your family on orders. Nothing Personal." I had a similar revelation after a movie came out in the early 90's called MENACE TO SOCIETY. It was about gang life in LA. And how the main character, throughout the course of the film grows to realize that while at one point he loved the gang life and culture it really was going to lead him to nowhere but an early grave. His friend ODog who was pretty much the epitome of a gang member, hot tempered, trigger happy and almost casually homicidal didn't understand why his friend might want to get out of the life. Near the end of the movie when one of the protagonists earlier actions come back to bite him in a horrible way, his friend ODdog comes out of the altercation UNSCATHED. So naturally all of the young guys who watched the movie hailed ODog as the hero and utterly missed the part that the bad stuff that you do will come back to get you in the end. For 2 hours that WASNT the story being told, but that's the story that one group of people walked away with and it annoyed me to no end.</blockquote>