The Devil's Advocate: Will YOU Sell Your Soul...

The movie The Devil's Advocate is a motion picture that depicts the cliche' "Selling your soul to the devil".  In this movie, Keanu Reeves plays a very successful attorney that has impeccable judgment and an awesome skill of winning. He is scouted by a top law firm in New York City. They recognize "potential" in him and want him to be apart of the team. When he eventually accepts the offer, he soon begins to realize the tangled web that he has weave himself into. Throughout the movie we witness how lies and betrayal can destroy a person and ultimately cost them their life. We fool Keanu Reeve's character as he struggles with his moral judgment in addition to the strong desire for worldly possessions. Ultimately in the end, morality wins the war against good and evil.

I give this movie two thumbs up! I feel the film directors, writers and producers did a great job at exposing this truth as well as depicting it. The question isn't how many of us "sell our souls to the devil" for things, lifestyles, etc., the question is how often do we "sell our soul to the devil" for that we think we want? It's difficult to argue this topic because somethings that are considered evil aren't obvious like murder, rape, assault, etc., but there are those "little" things such as gossip, lying, betrayal, etc. that take on the same evil qualities as murder, rape, etc. In a scene in the movie, we see "the devil" (Al Pacino) trying to seduce a married man  (Keanu Reeves' Character) with women. Those are the types of evils we (a society) fall victim to everyday and not realize what EXACTLY we are doing.

I watched this movie when I was younger not really understanding the full meaning. I then watched it just a few days ago and had a chance to really understand the meaning of the movie and apply it to everyday situations... As mentioned, the movie touches on subjects that occur in our everyday lives... We have to wonder, when we repeatedly engage in these behaviors, are we selling parts of our soul??