I don't want to define evil, couldn't if I wanted to. Maybe evil is some super villain in a volcano fortress, or maybe its the intangible and unstoppable biblical force of Cormac McCarthy novels, or perhaps its just a weed that grows in weak, ignorant, and apathetic people. However you define it, which films do you think are best representations of it?
5. The Heart of a Dog - Evil that is inherent in all of us, and the dangers of pretending its not there. After the communist revolution in Russia, a bourgeois professor does a Frankenstein experiment turning a stray dog into a man. The former dog now a man, becomes a cat exterminator and a passionate communist. The professor quickly learns that science can turn a dog into a man, but it cannot turn an animal into a human being.
4. Princess Mononoke - Evil as myopia, all the characters are so warped up in their personal schemes and narrow goals, that they fail to see the bigger picture, picture hurting themselves and others in the process.
3. Peppermint Candy - The rot of a nation personified in the fall of one man. Filmed backwards Memento style, it gives a reverse account of the fall of man, from depravity to earlier innocence. Interestingly enough alot more fascinating than the classic innocence to depravity story.
2. Mr. Death - A brilliant documentary by Errol Morris (Fog of War) which NOBODY saw. Its about the trials and tribulations of an engineer who makes execution equipment for a living. Never has the banality of evil been better portrayed.
1. Andrei Rublev - Evil as despair, a complete an utter loss of faith in fallen humanity. Hope and faith, both in man and in God being the antidotes.