“No Alternative” by Betsy Childs

In her article “No Alternative” Betsy Childs comments on the current trend of movie producers and writers including alternate endings when the movie is released in DVD format. She argues that this activity renders the plot meaningless. Why would movie makers do such a thing? No doubt one reason is to increase DVD sales. A second reason might be that they liked the alternative ending better. I think there could be a third reason which is even more alarming. Maybe the reason is that many movie makers have been transformed by the empty notion of nihilism which leads a person down the path of utter meaninglessness and worthless existence. These nihilistic messengers of futility see the plot and story as a random and meaningless evangelistic presentation of nihilistic philosophy (See my entry for Saturday, August 26, 2006).