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<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in; line-height: 100%">An
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Ethical Evaluation <sdfield type=PAGE subtype=RANDOM format=PAGE>0</sdfield></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">An
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Ethical Evaluation:</font></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">The
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Killers</font></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Joseph
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J. Green</font></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Northern
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Arizona University</font></p>
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<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%; page-break-before: always">
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif"> <i>The Killers</i><span style="font-style: normal">
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is a film about a gang who is willing to lie, cheat, and steal their
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way to the top. The film contains many examples of choices that many
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would find to be in a positive light and just as many that could be
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found in a negative light, </span><span style="font-style: normal">morally</span><span style="font-style: normal">.</span></font></p>
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<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-style: normal"> The
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film opens with a couple gunman entering a restaurant looking to kill
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the Swede (Ole) by waiting at his regular restaurant. They decide to
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hold </span><span style="font-style: normal">up </span><span style="font-style: normal">everyone
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up the restaurant, while they wait for Ole, but when he doesn’t
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show, instead of killing all the witnesses, they decide to let them
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live. A morally righteous act, to let those live whom could pose a
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threat to their enterprise.</span></font></p>
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<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-style: normal"> After
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the </span><span style="font-style: normal">gunmen</span><span style="font-style: normal">
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leave, it is revealed that Nick Adams, a patron of the restaurant who
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was held up with the rest, worked with Ole </span><span style="font-style: normal">at</span><span style="font-style: normal">
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a gas station. At great risk to himself, considering that Ole had
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gunm</span><span style="font-style: normal">e</span><span style="font-style: normal">n
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after him, he runs to his friend’</span><span style="font-style: normal">s</span><span style="font-style: normal">
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</span><span style="font-style: normal">home </span><span style="font-style: normal">to
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warn him about the danger. What could be more morally sound than risk
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your own life for a friend?</span></font></p>
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<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-style: normal"> Later
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in the film, there is a scene where Ole is thrashing about destroying
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everything in a hotel room when a maid walks in. Ole, out of his
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mind, busts open a window and prepares to jump. The maid quickly runs
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to stop </span><span style="font-style: normal">him</span><span style="font-style: normal">,
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in the name of God, in order to save his soul from sure destruction
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</span><span style="font-style: normal">if he commits</span><span style="font-style: normal">
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suicide.</span></font></p>
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<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"> The
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film also has a share of questionable at best, and condemnable at
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worst, choices that its characters make. It is revealed that some of
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the characters had participated in a payroll heist to steal over
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$200,000 with of money. If that itself isn’t enough, they even
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choose to shoot a security guard who was trying to stop them as they
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got away.</font></p>
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<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> We
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later find that that a woman, Kitty, only cares for herself and has
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no moral character, a true classic villain. After the heist, she
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decides to double cross everyone to get the money for herself. Kitty
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tells Ole, who was involved with the crime, that he was being double
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crossed to get him to steal all the money for himself and that she
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would be with him. He does this, but, shortly after getting somewhere
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safe, Kitty steals all the money and takes off to reunite with Colfax
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(her current lover). Later, she also has no trouble leading the
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insurance investigator (James) into a trap while she ran away though
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a window in a bathroom.</font></p>
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<p align="left" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 200%"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> There
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are many examples of moral and not-so-moral acts scattered throughout
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this film. Easily the most amoral person is Kitty. She double crosses
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everyone trying to get away and live the easy life with no regard for
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the lives of others. At the end of the film she even begs her dying
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husband to clear her name. Some choices weren’t so clear, such as
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shooting the security guard, considering that the guards shot first.
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However they were already in the wrong, therefore, they lost the
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right to defend themselves, morally or otherwise. The most morally
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sound characters were likely Nick Adams and the maid who attempted to
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save the life of someone who was either about to jump out a window
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during a fit of rage, or had gunmen going after him. To save the life
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of a friend, or to save the soul of an unknown man, what could be
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more morally sound?</font></p>
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