ABSTRACT
The moral world is unthinkable without its distinctions of good and evil ought and ought-not. It is inherently a matter of sides, of choice, of discriminations. The ancient struggle for justice has never been anything but preparatory to something else, to life which was not delivered over to more struggles but could finally celebrate the sight of it all, life finally as pure show. Hence, the moral attitude which divides the world into good and evil is nothing final but has as its implicit and secret aim the establishment of conditions in life where moral decisions are no longer moral. When, then, a film seeks to make some external, moral comment upon real life, it has violated its intrinsic character as show and turned itself into discursive statement about something else, an independently real world. Specific references to films have been sparse indeed.
