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Sorgavaasal (Heaven's Gate, Tamil; 2024) Director: Siddharth Vishwanath  Youtube clip The one thing that man is granted in this life is free will and the freedom to act at his discretion (within the confines of social mores and the boundaries of the law). Therefore, when someone commits a crime that is deemed an affront to society's wellbeing, he is stripped of this privilege. Confined in isolation, it is believed that he will reflect on his waywardness and be spurred to make amends.  The reality, sadly, is not so clear-cut. We know of many innocent people incarcerated for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, doomed for life for crimes they did not commit. Then there are those who make jail their second home, moving in and out for petty crimes. I suppose imprisonment was no hindrance to the continuation of their daytime trades. Not to mention those who wear their jail sentences like badges of honour and the select few who still exert influence and control over activitie...

American History X (1998) Director: Tony Kaye That is the problem with affirmative action. The powers that be only end up angering the party they deprive and making laggards of the community they are trying to help. Even though affirmative action's noble intention is to help to give a push to the disadvantaged and help them get a headstart in life, it just ends up creating a generation of snowflakes who feel entitled. Social studies in the late 19th and 20th centuries in the USA suggest that the Afro-Americans actually fared better in terms of economics and academic achievement before special privileges were set aside for them. According to Prof Thomas Sowell, the Civil Liberties Rights of the mid-60s actually put the blacks more backward than the rest of the society and their predecessors.  On the other hand, race-based affirmative actions also anger the societies from whom privileges are seemingly cut. They would think that their life is not so hunky-dory either; why should they ...