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Question about Hassan's Motivation (spoiler)

posted 18 years ago by moviep8tri8
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Which of these messages was the movie trying to convey more:

1. That Hassan was committing the act of violence because he was a pious man, committed to a certain reading of the Q'uran and his personal beliefs, where he believed he was following the plan of allah. So that, within Hassan's mind and personal ethics, it was to be a premeditated action of a rational mind.

- or -

2. Hassan had become spiritually or psychicly altered/damaged by the horrendous torture he endured [and perhaps brainwashing by a separate faction], and was committing the act either as a form of suicide/revenge, or to make a statement in a way that is the result of an ill deranged mind?

I hope that makes sense, I'd really like to hear some thoughts on which is the case. If anyone wants to help me redefine what I am asking, I will check back to follow up. Perhaps there is an additional or better definition of his motivation and the primary way his quest was represented.

[–] masterkage 18 years ago

I think his motivation was more number two, revenge...and when gets that motivation, he believes he is in some kind of holy struggle and he adopted the thinking of the man in number 1.

[–] X_2_ 13 years ago

I think it was supposed to convey how set he was towards his goal due to his beliefs which were unshakable even when he realized his own friends/loved ones could be victims of his own actions. Thus it showed how dangerous such a devoted person could be while also showing how others can hold similar beliefs and not have such thoughts of violence.