The Boondock Saints

This movie was really eye opening, while I don't claim to really understand the mentality of why communists were so vilified, the way such innocent seeming people were treated is deplorable. This movie makes me think of a quote from the movie The Boondock Saints, "But, there is another kind of evil which we must fear most … and that is the indifference of good men!" Many times it seems that people are allowed to get away with misdeeds simply because enough people did not stand up against them. In the movie, it seems that people are either too scared to stand up against the blacklisting for fear of being blacklisted themselves or they have already been blacklisted, thus their opinion is irrelevant, as they are seen as traitors.

Though he plays
the role comically, Woody Allen's Howard Prince in the end stands up against the House Committee on Un-American Activities, knowing this would cost him jail time. To add icing to the cake, if he wanted to avoid this, all he had to do in order to avoid his sentence would have been to give up the name of an already dead man. All of this, including Prince's choice wording, underscores the absurdity of the of the trials. The way he plays the character not as a crusader, fighting for the oppressed but more as someone that simply see's something he disagrees with and is too stubborn to bend his morals to it, emphasizes that it does not take a revolutionary to cause waves, rather one good man not willing to look the other way.