Why THIS is the Cruelest Form of Justice in Cinema
How far should one go for justice once the system has already failed?
Successful thrillers from the last decade like Drishyam, Kahaani, Maharaja, and Vadh treat justice as finite, usually ending with the villain's life. But there is a recent surge of International and regional films like Argentina’s The Secret in Their Eyes, Gujarat’s Vash, and Malayalam’s Eko that have a far darker look at justice, which unsurprisingly takes their protagonist into much crueler territories.
Instead of asking whether the villain deserves to die, these stories ask a more haunting question: What if living with the punishment is worse than death?
u/Gullible-Nobody4242 — 4 days ago