"Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mannn's great parable of music and evil, plays as a ghostly thematic backdrop.
There are dramatic smoke-machine-propelled entrances and apocalyptic battles between Good and Evil played out on invisible trapezes.
The film is a Manichean morality play, a struggle between good and evil played out in blissful denial of psychological complexity.
We were met with incredible kindness and sympathy, the good of human nature contradicting the evil played out across the Hudson River.
Big oil, everybody's favorite embodiment of all that is evil, plays the bad guy here, drilling in Oregon in an unsafe manner that annoys the Earth itself.
That's not a bad way to think about "Everybody Has a Plan," in which the fight between good and evil plays out not at high noon but in Agustín.
Those chases are so exciting, and the blood is so unnerving, that I didn't at first realize that they're in service to a moral tale, one in which the struggle between good and evil plays out in often unsettling visual terms: that bone isn't just a convenient weapon but also an emblem of this man-eat-dog, man-kill-man world.
If so, then we would still be in no position to make the kinds of determinations about the role evil plays in the world, and how dispensable it may be, that the evidential argument presupposes.
Beyond pointing out the shortcomings of the opponent's arguments, he can and should try to offer a positive theodicy — that is, an account of the role evil plays in the world, and a justification for its presence.
He found the system redundant because Delsin became more powerful when he strictly adhered to either a good or evil play-style, rather than crossing in-between.
