Law Abiding Citizen

Everyone likes to think they know the difference between good and bad.

Everyone likes to think they have a good sense of justice.

That's what makes this movie so appealing-plus it has a great story line and great cast but for me, it was Gerard Butler who made the movie.

Watching the film with a Secular worldview, you see what the world likes to think-everyone has a good vibe of what good and bad is and if they ran the world, it would be all good and no problems-or even worse, we would end up like the singer Lemar with his song 'if there's any justice in the world, i would be your man, you would be my girl' (i think there's more pressing issues)

Watching the film with a Christian worldview, we all like to think we have a personally sound view of right and wrong and that we are in the right and are effectively 'law abiding citizens', but looking at the world and watching this film we see that deep down there is something fundamentally wrong with us.

The bible tells us its sin, I just wonder what people who don't have a relationship with Jesus make of this weird worldview, because in the film you are on the main characters side-even though he effectively is doing what we would classify as wrong, but yet you feel on his side at times-it doesnt make sense.

Thank God for the bible and telling us what is fundamentally wrong with us-a deeper issue than doing right and wrong or even right versus wrong but sin, and how justice for this messed up world is really achieved-at the cross-with Jesus (human-to be our substitute, and God to sort it out) taking the punishment we deserve for our sin-and not in our own redemptive plans or revenge.

In the end, it makes you question justice and right and wrong, great film, great cast, great questions brought out from it-go and watch it!