You may remember that Geraldo Rivera took measure of the Martin case and determined that the moral was: young men, throw out your hoodies.
One of the most accomplished Katrina films, "The Second Line," a 20-minute drama directed by John Magary and shown at Sundance, is a simmering moral tale about a young man driven to extremes after his FEMA trailer is burgled.
In the capacious sense just described, this is probably a moral question; and the young man paused long enough to ask Sartre's advice.
Here the gold standard remains Primo Levi, whose memoir "The Periodic Table" drew on ideas from chemistry to illumine a young man's moral development.
Which is directly to the point of this deceptively sincere movie about masculinity and its discontents that Mr. Gordon-Levitt, making a fine feature directing debut, shapes into a story about a young man's moral education.
If his own moral alienation as an excluded young man in laissez-faire LA led him to create the confused and puritanical Travis Bickle of Taxi Driver, life as a Hollywood director wasn't any easier.
Even in the midst of the seeming immorality of rioting without a cause, there were signs of a moral compass, with young men trying to rein back others they felt were going too far.
Winding on domestic roads through mountain and village alike, the infamous race regularly claims lives, raising troubling questions of moral responsibility – should young men be allowed to risk everything in a competition that Barry Sheene famously dismissed as simply too dangerous?
Enlisting in such a violent enterprise posed a difficult decision for a young man of his moral feeling and religious aspirations.
Barbaric!" Some may be sceptical of Mr Byrd's moral credentials (when he was a young man he served as Exalted Cyclops for the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan); but dogfighting is almost universally reviled, and rightly so.
The deftness with which Roger pulled off this post-Brechtian device was used to great comic effect (if he tried a line twice and it didn't work, it was because it couldn't), but also allowed him to chart the growth of an angry young man into a moral hero.
