I said good and evil are relative. You cannot helpfully know
one without the other. They should, of course, appear in proper
perspective. Their relationship for moral uplift should be clear. I
insist that the great majority of the movies do thus emphasize them
in their true light. Vice is ever shown as the enemy and destroyer of
human happiness; virtue as the only true course to secure the real joys
of life; that achieves the only victories worth while.
=In the movies, righteousness wins; sin loses. The hero triumphs. The
villain bites the dust.=
Not only decency but the pocketbook guarantees these general averages,
and that general average is the best we can hope for in anything.
Nothing is perfect and censorship will not make it so. You cannot
legislate right understanding into the human mind. By the more and
more decent methods of showing life, as I believe to be more and more
the rule in the movies, they furnish a great outlet, not only to the
natural, wholesome craving for excitement and adventure, but for a
necessary and legitimate amount of sex expression which otherwise, from
sheer suppression, is far more harmful and more likely to result in sin
and crime.
Some of the gossamer fabric of unreality, as in fantasies, dreams and
fairy tales, is just as necessary in the movies as are the realities of
life, to minister to the complexes and, as governors, to release the
strange suppressions of nature. There is always to be expected the
decent licenses of poetry and the exaggerations of fiction.