In Netflix’s Black Doves, An Assassin’s Code of Conduct Reveals Our Own Need for Rules

Note: This article contains potential spoilers Black pigeon.

Anti-hero characters such as Deadpool, John Wick, and Jack Sparrow have introduced a kind of unpreserved protagonist, as they have become increasingly popular in comic books, films and television series over the past few decades. No one else or do nothing but their own desires is characterized by a slight brand of selfishness, one mentality of the team, and a sloppy to the rules of nature.

At first glance, the popular new spies and assassins on Netflix Black pigeon The series looks the same. But even these ruthless killers are not a reminder that even anti-heroes are not as regulated as we think, as the need for boundaries or “codes.” Even in the most frightening questions, the need for certain moral guidance reflects our own human despair over boundaries and rules that derive from greater power than we do.

Anti-hero

Before becoming the wife of the British Minister of Defense, Helen Webb (Kiera Knightley) worked as a spy for an underground organization known as the Black Dubs. But Helen has yet another secret. She’s having an affair. And when Helen’s events end with the murder of her lover Jason, she is brought back to the world of spies and assassins. This also brings her back to friendship with her old colleague, Sam Young (Ben Whishaw), who is the black pigeon assassin.

Sam is presented as a microcosm of an anti-hero. The first victim was his father, a hard, sarcasmy, calm assassin. However, we quickly presented two cincs in Sam’s armor. His love for his ex-partner Michael and his refusal to go too far (i.e. kill a child). In the flashback, you only see Sam being given a hit job and realize that one of his targets is a young boy. Enter your SAM code. He pays a lot to end people’s lives, but Sam refuses to kill the kids and draws a line when he ultimately leaves his job incomplete.

As humans, we love to categorize ourselves. We create a comfortable little pyramid where people are clearly “bad” than us (like Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi) with people clearly “bad” than us (like Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi). But our fatal contradictions then want to escape that restrictive framework. So, who do we think we will be if the anti-heroes representing everything we want are not required to play by all of these nasty moral and social rules. They are free, determined, and can’t be seen by anyone but themselves.

But Sam is evidence that even in the fantasies of unrestricted life that is completely unregulated, we still feel the need to draw a line. Where. “You Do You” works until someone sinned what we think beyond the line.

The danger of relying on human code

“Drawing a line” can give us a sense of security, as if we can stop things from being allowed and pin them exactly where they are not allowed. But the problem of relying on our own definition of good and evil – my own moral norm is that it is constantly changing. And importantly, it’s different for everyone.

This is skillfully shown Black pigeon When Sam refuses to kill his young target, he catches up. Rennie, the criminal boss who ordered a hit in the first place, has her own code. As she claims to Sam when she first meets her, “This is the business of code.” And this business code is retaliation. When Rennie catches up to Sam, she asks him to “apologise, proceed to explain, and ultimately reach compensation.”

This is justice in their world. And often even ours.

Here we see the problem of crowning each person as the author of their own code, as the code of different people inevitably clashes. And in those examples, whose code should be called “appropriate”? Who will receive compensation and justice for the wounds that have been done?

Black pigeon It shows how things get very messed up when each individual pursues their vision of justice. This series presents a world where each and every person looking for their own interests is at odds with someone else.

The series’ “confusion” – a replet with gunfights, assassinations, lies, and vengeance – wants us to take a step back from the ideal anti-hero life. After all, working within our own ideas of code may not be that freed up in the end.

Conclusion

This is where we find ourselves casting for something more. Just as assassins and criminal lords are looking for “codes” to make things fair, even in the lining alleys that serve as their office, we are all looking for greater justice than we can find on Earth. In contrast to what we often believe, following someone else’s rules only confuses us, our own false human code, and is much more free than confusing our paths with our own false human code.

As Renee told Sam, a personal code fought her, “You have a warm heart. A warm heart and blood in your hands, but it’s not a good combination.” That’s exactly where our selfish desires put blood in our hands, and terrorize our heavenly instincts, and just follow the ideals of earthly forms.

But let it go and get the idea we We can get out of it because we need to control everything from action to justice to retaliation. It is not always easy to trust the Lord to enact His perfect justice, especially when pain and injustice surround us. Sam and Helen felt forced to take things into their own hands as they stood in a firefight from those who were not treated unfairly, and those who threatened their loved ones to an overly vengeful enemy. However, as a result, the gunshots became stronger and their loved ones were still in danger.

I’m also afraid to trust the Lord’s justice. In many cases, it is not as rationally specific as we believe we can do it, or as rationally specific as our own perspective. But the Bible and the provisions of the Lord’s past show us that justice is close to his heart. Whether we can see the greater work of his justice in this life or not, we can trust that his solution (his “code”) is far more caring, successful and true than we ourselves.