Life and death and love and hate-- how these play out in life

Today in class we watched the movie Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. The movie was very interesting, to say the least. When the movie first came on, I sat back and laughed to myself, wondering what I was going to experience for the next 45 minutes. As the movie progressed I laughed, however at the same time I felt sad for what was going on within this film that seemed somewhat useless.

Throughout the film I began to recognize different things within the movie that we have discussed in class. The theme of life and death was evident, as was the theme or love and hate. This is the theme that has been evident in much of the literature that we have read within this class. I found it interesting that Dr. Horrible felt such intense love for the girl, yet at the same time felt such hate for Dr. Hammer. This shows the common theme of feeling such intense love, that you also feel hate for someone else.

When I think about this theme of hate and love, I begin to ask myself many questions. I ask myself, is it possible to truly love someone, yet at the same time hate someone else? If this is possible, then could the feelings possibly get mixed up? If the person you love upsets you, will you quickly turn the switch and feel hate for them? I do not know the answer to all of these questions, but part of me thinks that it would be difficult to truly separate all of these feelings all of the time. We all have bad days. If there is such extreme hatred within a person, would it be easy for it to turn on people that you do not mean to?

I question myself on these things not because I wish for everyone to be perfect in life. For this would be impossible. I also do not ask these questions to band all hurt. I do, however, challenge you to think about your anger in your life. Is it to the point that it is hateful? Is this hate hurting other people? Because at the point that your hatred begins to hurt those who come in contact with you, who have nothing to do with the hatred in your life, you will begin to hurt people that you never thought you would hurt, just like Dr. Horrible.