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1. The Moral Center in Films

High Noon (1952) is a classic tale of a hero who must face mortal danger alone. The other “good” men in the town are either unable or unwilling to stand by his side, despite the fact that he cleaned up Hadleyville and made it a decent place to live. With his sense of responsibility, determination, and courage, Will Kane represents the moral center of the story—the character who exemplifies the right values and moral attributes. Miller’s gang is the threat to the hero, the direct cause of the dramatic tension in the story, but the true moral antitheses to Kane’s noble behavior are the townspeople, who are hypocrites and cowards. Amy is a character on a moral journey, and Helen Ramirez acts as her guide. Initially unwilling to support her husband and embrace the virtues he represents, she gets a lesson in loyalty when Ramirez advises her to stand by her man, which Amy ultimately does. 

Tags: film, movies, moral, morality, High Noon, Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, western, stories
By Terry R. Bacon
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Thea Pilarczyk

This is really balanced and insightful, thank you! It's nice to hear an objective viewpoint on such a heated topic.

The fight for equality, whether for human rights or for the sharing of information, is certainly always a pendulum swing...the pendulum takes decades, sometimes longer, before it lays peacefully in the middle. I wonder if humanity, with all of our inherent biases despite our best efforts to shrug them off, will ever be able to report the news truly objectively?

March 18, 2011, 10:38 AM
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