User blog:Looperreallyreallysucks/Pure Evil Proposal - Miro (H.H.L.)

Got another candidate, this one from a horror short.



What’s The Work
H.H.L. is a 2016 horror short film set in a dystopian setting. In it, a fascist government wants to use drugs to dominate its people, so they make a deal with the protagonists...

Who is the Candidate? What Have They Done?
Miro, along with his brother Lucio and his girlfriend May, is one of the main protagonists of the film. After making a deal with the fascist government to supply them with drugs called NUKE, he, Lucio, and May would lure people into their apartment before murdering them. Afterwards, they would extract the ingredients needed for NUKE from their victim’s brain and use it to... well... make NUKE. When Miro finds out that May and Lucio stole some of his supplies, he first tortures May to death before beating Lucio to death. At the end of the short, after handing some drugs to the government, Miro prepares to murder a child.

Freudian Excuse/Mitigating Factors
No FE. Although he lives in a dystopian setting, I just can’t see that as any justification for his actions, as he only cares about the profit he gets from selling the NUKE drugs to the government. There was a scene where he was being nice to a little kid, but not only is he more than willing to kill his own brother and girlfriend without a shred of guilt, he ended the short film preparing to murder a child (who was very likely the same person he was being “nice” to earlier, BTW), so I would say he was simply being “nice” to avoid suspicion. Besides that, he feels no remorse, and he even killed his own allies (his girlfriend and his brother, no less) out of anger for stealing his drug supplies, so no. Nothing redeeming about him.

Heinous Standard
While the government wants to use the NUKE drugs to dominate its people, none of them are as brutal and bloodthirsty as Miro. And while Lucio and May both take part in luring and killing people to make drugs, they both have disqualifying factors (Lucio was actually horrified upon finding out what Miro did to May, and aside from stealing drug supplies, there’s really no indication that May doesn’t care about Miro and Lucio), and Miro’s brutal murder of his partners puts him a step above them.

Final Verdict
Yes, yes, and yes.