The day before yesterday, I watched the movie, Blades III. after I had determined to sleep and entered HH and SJ's room for a moment to say good night to them, they just started the movie. I was in a dilemma whether to watch the movie or go to sleep; but some curiosity, deep inside my mind, allured me to sit down.
It is the exemplary vampire movie in which the vampire is described evilike and the vampire hunter, Blade appears as a protagonist. As the third episode of the Blades series, thie movie has more peculiar features than the other Tow in the series. Unlike the others, in Blades III, Blade inadvertantly kills an innocent human who is not a vampire. Since the human leaves a corpse after he dies, while the vampire becomes ash and disappears, the police easily figures out that Blade is a murderer and imprisons him. The police and most other human beings do not believe in the existence of vampires. Just as most people out in the real world, including me, do not believe, they do not believe in Blade's words and put themselves into impending dire by sentencing Blades as a psycopath. In this scene, I suddenly came to wonder what would I have done if I were the innocent human who heard Blade's words.
In the real world, I know that there are no vampires. However, I do not know that for sure. I know that South Korea and other democratic countries are the one who hold scythes and scales. However, I am not sure whether North Korea is really an evilike country or, as a most sincere Mr.Bush has said, whether it is an "axis of evil" or not. I know that history we learn is true but not sure whether it is a hundered percent truth. I am caught in such a condition as a paradox. I am not sure of anything. I am the one in the oblivion who is under the dark age without any enlightenment. I can not pierce through the real truth. just like in statistics where there is nothing that is truly one hundred percent. Maybe the expression, 'I know' should be changed into 'I believe'. Further, what most people believe to be fact is not necessarily truth, since most of us believe in democracy which urges us to follow the decision of the majority. Then, the phrase 'I believe' and 'I know' become interchangeable.
My argument might be, and surely will be, undermined at its essence; when someone points out that democracy itself is a policy, rule, system, and theory made by human for convenience in order for us to say 'I know' instead of saying 'I believe'. However, I am sure that many prominent sages including Socrates, Jesus, Buddah and Confucius believed in the general social customs of the age while still pursuing their goals, while not having any trouble between 'I believe' and 'I know', while not knowing everything happening in the world. That is why, I, in the enlightenment-void stage, also should believe in social belief of democracy and thus, for convenience, will use' I know' instead of 'I believe'.
A vampire movie I first considered at first galnce to be a mere diversion dragged me down to this sincere state and made me contemplate about this one aspect of a paradoxical life. Can it infact be a paradox? or is it just a common feature in life that one can find a philosophy in a most unexpected things(movie, computer game, cell phone, pen or etc, everything around us) inadvertantly? Actually Mr.Um Se Yong made a speach about the movie, "Million Dollar Baby" this morning in the weekly assembly.