[FRIAM] Breaking Bad

[Frank Wimberly]

Jochen,

Now you know what the countryside looks like around here.

Frank

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On Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 10:46 AM Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:

> The TV series Breaking Bad was created 10 years ago, but I only recently
> was able to watch it on Netflix. As you know it is about the question how a
> good man turns bad. The story starts with a tragedy, a lung cancer
> diagnosis for the main character Walt(er) White. Life has not been kind to
> the underpaid and overqualified chemistry teacher who has a disabled son
> and a pregnant wife. The cancer diagnosis pushes him over the edge and
> after it he seems to driven by the question "if life has been so bad to me
> why should I be good?". The episodes that follow describe how he "breaks
> bad" and turns toward crime.
>
> What do you think, did you like the TV series created in Albuquerque? Is
> the story accurate from a psychological perspective, i.e. can good people
> turn into bad ones if life refuses to be kind to them? In a way this story
> of a person who turns into a villain is the opposite of Joseph Campbell's
> classic story of a person who turns into a hero, isn't it?
>
> -J.
>
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