If I were the editor of Defiance, during the scene where the people living in the woods were beating up the scout, I would keep it that way. I would have them kill the scout and not give a second thought about it. I believe the way that they were doing it really shows how much what the Nazis did effected them. For example, one woman yelled out "he was only fifteen!" She then hit the scout to avenge the boy's death. It shows the complete and awful pain Jewish people were in. By them not giving a second thought about killing him, it shows how the holocaust really effected people. Before the holocaust began, if those people were to have killed a man, they would have felt horrible about it. The holocaust made them feel like it was revenge, so it was okay to do. By keeping it the way it was, it is more dramatic and better showing of the real circumstances.
This scene, however, if it were going on now days, in real life, would be completely against my ethics. I would never be able to kill or even hit a man. And if I did, I would hold a sense of guilt that would eat me alive. That just goes to show the difference in situation that they were in and how it changes a person.
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