Actually, most already are.
As
I came to answer this, I thought about some movies where the "good
guys" are obviously bad and realised that to tell the story from
the real "good guys" angle would make the plot fall apart.
Notable
Examples:
- The Matrix
- Blade Runner
- Natural Born Killers
- Pulp Fiction
Then
you have the case where the good guys and the bad guys are both as
bad as each other
Notable
Examples:
- Star Wars
- Inside Man
- Watchmen
- Law Abiding Citizen
- Clockwork Orange
Now
I don't have a problem with morally ambiguous material. In fact, I'm
all for it because it's more intereting - when it is intentionally
written that way. I have a problem with it when it's the result of
bad writing ie when a writer goes out to make a hero but a plot hole
in the badly written story makes the hero unintentionally
flawed in a way that demolishes the whole story.
A
classic example is almost every superhero movie where the superhero
appears to have absolutely no interest in the collateral damage they
are a party to just so long as the villain is caught. I have never
once seen a hero take the fight somewhere where no one would be hurt
or coordinate with the emergency services to get people to safety or
even help in the clean up afterwards - and they're the heroes? I
don't think so.
The
problem is context.
Few
movie writers think of their stories as part of a whole. Each action,
each word, has consequences. And if you don't think about them, they
will ripple out, hit an object and bounce back, destroying the
original pattern that created them.
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