A History of Evil

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Animated Documentary-Mockumentary about Evil in western civilization from Ancient Greece to present day.

After all the comments I feel like some clarification is in order, but firstly, to you guys that liked it:

Thanks, you've made my day.

The film was intended to show what people have believed in and pointed to as evil throughout history. It was meant to get you to think about what evil really is. It is meant to show that when we get too obsessed with "evil" we might end up taking part in it ourselves.

One has to separate evil and human cruelty. Human cruelty is people not being nice to one another. Evil is soemthing else, it is something we have created, a word and a concept for things that are not acceptable. It is a label for things that we do not understand and dont want to understand.

But is evil really ever a complete explanation for anything?

A lot of bad deeds has been done in the name of good. The people that did them ment good, are they evil?


OK, and finally,
This video is not meant to:

-blame wester culture and people for all the "evil" in the world. I'm european, and thought that I better stick to my own history.
-blame religion for all the evil in the world.
-claim that God is dead. (It is simply a reference to the philosopher Nietzsche, look him up.)
-offend anyone, race, religion, gender or sexual orientation.
-claim that Elvis was evil.
-be an exact and complete account of the actual events that has taken place throughout history.

This was a student project, hence the "unfinishedness" and abrupt ending. I ran out of time. I might update it later.

It was animated frame by frame in flash and composited and textured in AfterEffects.

Channel: Film & Animation
Uploaded: January 31, 2008 at 5:16 am
Author: omaggs2000

Length: 00:05:40
Rating: 4.46
Views: 1269440

Tags: animation art documentary short film evil stickmen history

Video Comments:
pianote23 (August 27, 2008 at 5:19 pm)
DEMOCRACY, music, history, grammar, PHILOSOPHY, mathematics, law, art, theatre, myth, architecture, charity, political, medicine,OLYMPIC GAMES. These are a few things that the Greeks have offered but also are shared with the world and have rendered the human fight more beautiful and more creative.
OneEyedxPMEL (August 26, 2008 at 8:16 am)
AHhahahaahhahahahahaahahaaahahahahah!xD
This is sooo funny. Well done! I hope to see a finished version. :)
theStickerBush (August 24, 2008 at 4:39 am)
1:26 HAHAHHAA!
mockhazzard (August 23, 2008 at 8:31 pm)
here here !
TheTrueChuckNorris (August 23, 2008 at 12:05 pm)
pretty fuckin inaccurate. it doesnt give light to anything but the fact that our world is evil
LondonFriendLondon (August 25, 2008 at 5:12 pm)
Dear Th.,
Yes you are right, absolutely right; the fellow at 4:04 really is the aidsman, not el Bin-Liner.
.

Cheers.
from,
del-boy.
johanfilm1 (August 22, 2008 at 1:06 pm)
super cool
Americanmanthefirst (August 22, 2008 at 10:58 am)
Judaism was before Greece
punk2116 (August 21, 2008 at 7:20 pm)
Very cool
ko2n777 (August 21, 2008 at 3:03 am)
Incredibly awesome. Cheers from Switzerland.