In the movie, Mickey and Mallory are a murderous duo who go on a killing spree of 52 innocent people. Mickey and Mallory are murderers, but they have a strong ethic of authenticity. The film resists the traditional categories of good and evil. The duo act as they will and have their own ethical belief system and morals. For example, when Wayne Gayle asks Mickey how he could have brought himself to kill 52 innocent people? He answers – “who’s innocent?” then says “It's just murder man. All God's creatures do it in some form or other. I mean you look in the forest.
You got species killing other species, our species killing all species including the forest and we just call it industry, not murder. But I know a lot of people who deserve to …show more content…
This shows how their ethics and morals are opposed to the society’s morals and its perspective of good and evil. In Mickey's view, evil or bad is based on arbitrary moral standards and exists only in the minds of those who judge, therefore murder is not a significant act from his perspective. Mickey sees himself both as both creator and destroyer. When Gayle asks Mickey, “was it really worth it?”, “Was massacring all of those people worth being separated from your love for the rest of your life?” Mickey replies-
You mean was an instant of my purity worth a lifetime of your lies?” later on he said “You’ll never understand Wayne. You and me, we're not even the same species. I used to be you then I evolved. From where you're standing you're a man. From where I'm standing you're an ape.
You're not even an ape; you're a media person. Media's like the weather, only it's man made.
Murder is pure. You're the one made it impure. You're buying and selling fear.” He describes an

evolution from ape to human, for him his intentions and desires are pure and authentic. Therefore he considers himself superior to Gayle. Mickey does not regret his actions due to his