Gavin Fuller of The Daily Telegraph wrote that the Western concept was "effectively window-dressing for Toby Whithouse's powerful morality tale, where not everything was quite as it seemed and went on to explore issues of morality, ethics, conscience and justice".
For honestly believing that real life in our great land had become just one big reality show and that overnight, without benefit of wisdom, knowledge, intellect, experience, ethics, conscience or the merest trace of substance, you wouldn't get voted off the island, could/would dance better than anyone else or be selected the next American Idol rather than the next American Midol.
In its testimony, the prison colony described Tolokonnikova as "insensitive to ethics and conscience and thinking only about herself".
Miller's script isn't exactly subtle, hitting its themes of ethics and conscience and family loyalty loudly and finishing the tale in the laziest possible way.
Instead of concocting tales of alleged censorship, Mr. Wise should write about the virtue of a system that relies on a writer's own ethics and conscience, not government censorship, to discriminate between the newsworthy and the prurient.
When the studio asked their star if Welles might play the villain, Heston said: "If you've got Welles, why not let him direct, too?" In the late 1950s, Cahiers du Cinema said Heston was "axiomatic" - meaning his mere image was suggestive of a whole continent of stories, of strong leaders troubled by ethics or conscience.
And to do work that meets our own test of ethics and conscience," he added.
In the TV show, those whom Kilgrave commands, are powerless to resist his horrific orders, although they violate their own inherent natures, ethics and consciences.
Not only are they an affront to our sense of ethics and social conscience, they are jobs for people who are, well, one degree short of a moral compass.
Marilyn Beker is the Senior Screenwriting Professor at Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television in Los Angeles and the author of The Screenwriter Activist: Writing Social Issue Movies and Screenwriting With A Conscience: Ethics for Screenwriters.
