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the irishman is a 2019 movie about an
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irish-american mafia hitman
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and union official frank the irishman
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in the beginning of the movie we see the
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aging frank shearer himself
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who tells his life story from his own
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perspective he tells us how he began to
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work as a house painter
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or a contract killer to be more exact
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for the buffalino crime family
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the movie does a great job of presenting
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the life story of a cold-blooded
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in an extremely intimate way we the
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enter sharon's early care home to hear a
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from the evil person himself but what
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exactly makes the irishman so
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evil in his 1967 book the symbolism of
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evil french philosopher paul recur
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explores the mythical symbolism of
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evil ricker claims that myth seek to
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account for the crisis in the bond
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the man and the sacred we can see that
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the arsenal is a kind of a myth
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first person narration by the irishman
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gives us a consolidated story
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there's a clear beginning where sher is
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the end where he is about to die after
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most importantly the irishman presents
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the bond between a man and the sacred
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good is in crisis the argument is a
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about a person who is confessing his
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crisis the crisis of moving away
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from the sacred full recover claims
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that myths about evil are different from
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symbols about evil and that myths
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are narrations given in time and space
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like the irishman's confession
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whereas symbols are demythologized myths
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which represent a culturally significant
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manifestation of evil
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for example recur claims that the story
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about adam and eve's expulsion from
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whereas exile is a standalone symbol
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this particular myth in the case of the
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the story is filled with clear symbols
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of evil which generate the overall
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tension between evil and the sacred
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paul recur distinguishes three types of
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evil the first type is defilement which
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require defines as an
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unclean contact caused by the material
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that is to say defilement is a stain
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terror in the person's eyes we can see a
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clear example of defilement to the
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irishman's inability to
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understand why would soldiers during the
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graves let's see the movie it's crazy
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but i never understood how
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they would just keep digging their own
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graves you know i mean stop
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i mean maybe they thought if they did a
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the guy with the gun would change his
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we can consider this to be a symbol of
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the soldiers are doing something that is
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absolutely irrational
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it feels as though the world has gone
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mad the ethical rules are stained by the
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irrationality of war the second type of
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symbol of evil according to recur
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is sin the main category here is the
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relationship with god
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in other words sin always occurs before
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paul recur writes sin is not a
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transgression of an abstract rule but a
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violation of a personal bond
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therefore the deeper the relationship is
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with the spiritual force
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the deeper the meaning of sin will be in
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the case of the irishman
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the most significant sin in the movie is
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the murder of jimmy hoffa
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we the viewer can see clearly that hafey
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important person for shiren in addition
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jimmy hoffa is also a very important
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person for sheeran's daughter
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by killing khafa sheeran breaks the
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personal bond with hoffa
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hoffa's family and his own daughter even
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though sheeran is indeed a cold-blooded
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the guy painted houses for a living he
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nevertheless has the capacity to regret
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violating the bond with people who are
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we know that after killing rafa sheeran
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talked to hoffa's wife
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tried to console her and lied about not
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knowing what happened to him
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this action symbolizes the bond that is
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sharon is for this reason ashamed of it
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makes a phone call like that
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what do you mean what what what phone
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call the last symbol of
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evil according to paul recur is guilt
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this is quite obvious guilt is
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and personalization of sin
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recur rights to be guilty is only to be
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ready to undergo the chastisement and to
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make oneself the subject of
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chastisement guilt should therefore be
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interpreted as a very
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personal emotion a guilty person is
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punishment for the evil use of liberty
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guilt is different from the confession
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one has to live privately with his own
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sense of guilt in the movie
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the symbol of guilt manifests insurance
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inability to come to terms with his own
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his own finitude he confesses his sense
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he shares his story with the
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investigators he tries to
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apologize to his daughters for
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mistreating them but the consequences of
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his crimes are still with him
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the punishment for the evil use of his
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the punishment is the inability to die
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without guilt that is
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to die in peace last shot of the movie
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shows a person who is stuck in his own
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guilt unlike sin is extremely personal
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it can no longer be shared with anyone
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in this book paul recur shows us that
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symbols of evil have an origin
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in the ancient judeo-christian and greek
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literature these ancient stories make up
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the bedrock of our understanding of
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good and bad when we say that a person
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evil we inevitably refer to the canon
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of thoughts that describes in detail the
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of evil as paul recurred says the symbol
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gives rise to thoughts which means that
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our stories never just
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hang in a cultural vacuum they refer to
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for this reason we should be more
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attentive to the symbols that are being
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pop culture and how they refer to our
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enigmas this would make us better
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thank you so much for watching see you
