The movie "Good" featuring Viggo Mortensen as the "protagonist" John Halder and directed by Vincente Amorim is a drama based on a play by the same name. Why did I put protagonist in quotation marks?  The reason is that throughout the story, the question of whether or not John Halder is a decent man comes into question. In the beginning, Halder starts out a quiet spineless man who is content slaving over his crazed mother and half-crazed wife. He shews away from responsibility such as in the second scene when his father-in-law tells him to join the Nazi party. John passively avoids the question as he does with any serious subject in his life. As the movie progresses however, John slowly gains an elite status in the Nazi party and feels more and more confident about himself. He leaves his wife for a more attractive, younger, socialite, and slowly drifts apart from his jewish friend because whenever he is around him he feels ashamed of what he has become. I do not think that John Halder is a purposefully evil man. In my opinion he is just too weak to speak up. He did not openly seek out the Nazis, but he did not object to being one of them. I think that Halder felt empowered for the first time in my life where he usually was overshadowed by his wealthy Jewish friend; who was now consequently taking up Halder's old stance in society. Although the movie takes place in the 1930's, there are key issues which still are debated in present day, such as euthanasia. Halder's book focuses on the subject of euthanasia. It becomes a jumping off point for the Nazi position on the final solution. Although the final solution is not even considered in the U.S. but euthanasia is. It is legal currently in Washington and Oregon. I find it interesting that movies can show us how things can change so rapidly but core values remain the same over time.