Yesterday I was watching TV9 Kannada and there was this news segment where tomato farmer's crops have been destroyed by some unknown people. The farmer is now in 6lakh debt and he expected 20lakhs in return if everything went well. Now, obviously, everything did not go according to plan. The police came with sniffer dogs and etc and the report said the investigation is ongoing. As they say in Arjun Reddy, pain is personal, I mean I'm sorry for his loss, but the pain suffered by the farmer himself is more than that of us who are feeling sorry for him. I completed dinner and Amma shared a story back from those 1970s. There was a man who was going home through some jamindar's mango farmland and they thought he was stealing, scared him with violence, or in other words, aawaz haakodu and let him go. The man returned by midnight, cut mangoes that would fill up a big rice gunny bag and dropped one by one on his way to police station and dropped the gunny bag on Police Station gate and went home. This suddenly reminded me of the "Criminals aren't complicated, Alfred" scene from The Dark Knight. The video link is below and dialogue transcript is as follows:
Video Link: https://youtu.be/SIYkhb2NjfE
Dialogue Transcript between Bruce Wayne and Alfred:
Bruce Wayne : [while in the underground bat cave] Targeting me won't get their money back. I knew the mob wouldn't go down without a fight, but this is different. They crossed the line.
Alfred Pennyworth : You crossed the line first, sir. You squeezed them, you hammered them to the point of desperation. And in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn't fully understand.
Bruce Wayne : Criminals aren't complicated, Alfred. Just have to figure out what he's after.
Alfred Pennyworth : With respect Master Wayne, perhaps this is a man that *you* don't fully understand, either. A long time ago, I was in Burma. My friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So, we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never met anybody who traded with him. One day, I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.
Bruce Wayne : So why steal them?
Alfred Pennyworth : Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
We can argue who's at wrong and right all day and night and we may not even reach conclusion. Although he robbed the mangoes to get back at the jamindar's people, but his intentions may or may not align with that of Joker, but Joker and the bandit in the Burma story had same thoughts and intentions, they thought it was a good sport. Because some men don't care for money, they just want to watch the world burn.
