FINALLY!

The Boondock Saints is an amazing film, and one of my all-time favorites!  What I like most about it is the fact that it relates so well to my Senior Exit project.  The film is about these 2 Irish brothers who start out “two ordinary men who were put in an extraordinary situation” (Smecker) and then become extraordinary, and possibly heroes, too.  It all starts when a bar fight goes too far and the brothers have a strange dream or something mystic that tells them “destroy all that which is evil…so that which is good may flourish” (Connor and Murphy).  They then decide to take on the mob, and kill whoever they deem evil or corrupt.  I’m not ruining the story too much in here, because someone will complain, but for more, just watch the movie.  Seriously!

Anyways…I’ve uploaded 2 things in this post: a scene from The Boondock Saint (which I just got done seeing in theatres!) and a small part of the original screenplay I found online.

                                     PRIEST
                         What is it my son?

                                     SMECKER
                         It’s ethics. I put evil men behind
                         bars, but the law has miles of red
                         tape and loopholes for these…
                         cocksuckers to slip through. I’ve
                         found out there are these two young
                         men who fix the situation with an
                         iron fist. As if they have God’s
                         permission. But what they do is wrong
                         and I should arrest them…
                         technically.

                                     PRIEST
                         God’s permission? God doesn’t…

               Rocco shakes the priest.

                                     SMECKER
                         But in this day and age I believe
                         what they do is… necessary. I feel
                         it is… correct.
(more talking…)

     SMECKER
                         I’m beginning to see. I’ve been doing
                         my job… well for fifteen years and
                         it’s just not enough. All the things
                         I wish I could do, these guys are
                         doing. Millions of dollars in tax
                         payers’ money wasted on shit like
                         wire taps and surveillance. Theses
                         boys go in and take care of it for
                         the price of a bullet.
                              (looks up)
                         Ww-what do you think I should do?
                         Because I’m a law man.

               Rocco jostles the priest again.

                                     PRIEST
                         The laws of God are higher than the
                         laws of man.

In the video clip, which does use profanity, I’ll find a clean version for my speech or paper or something, the “saints” are exposing themselves to the public and explaining their reasons for killing others. These men don’t want the world to see them as murderers and say that they really are the “lesser forms of filth” (Connor) and are necessary to keep corruption from the innocent.  These guys see that they are extraordinary, and instead of just excepting it and moving on, they share their knowledge with the world.  They expose themselves and show that they are not afraid of the law or any police.  They are working for higher laws and rights and are justified to kill.

The second thing is part of a scene from the script.  I couldn’t find the video for this scene, so you can just uses your imagination.  “Smecker” is an FBI agent that was sent to Boston to solve these mob murders, and convict whoever was responsible.  He starts out like any other cop, going just far enough in his work to uphold the law, but after he seeing what the saints are doing, he begins to wonder who’s right in this situation.  Now, Smecker is gay in the film, and therefore not religious at all, so coming into a church was very unlike him.  He was drunk, though.  Anyways, in this scene, you can see the struggle between the ordinary and extraordinary; how one can raise above the “laws of man” and one cannot.  This is Smecker’s realization that such people do exist and can do the right thing by ignoring regular laws.  I don’t want to give too much of the movie away, so I won’t go into too much detail on this one, but it is very interesting!

Watch the movie, it is amazing!