Moral Principles

I've just got to say, sometimes I really question my moral principles whilst watching certain movies. Now, not to say I'm a bad person or anything because normally I totally stick to the right way and yadda yadda (not to brag either, just stating a fact). I'm also a stickler for canon (canon is the way things are actually written in movies and not what people make up). So if it happens in the movie, that's how it happens in my head. If this character ends up with that character, that's what I accept. And so on.

However...

Every once in a while there will be a movie where I just don't accept the canon and/or I really start to question my moral principles concerning the plot. It rather concerns me sometimes.

There are two examples I can think of off the top of my head: Dial "M" For Murder and The Phantom of the Opera.

I saw Dial "M" For Murder for the first time a couple months ago and I was freaking out the whole time. Not because it was a murder movie, but because I didn't know who I was supposed to be rooting for. I was hoping that the murderer would get away with it for most of the time! It wasn't like the person he was trying to murder really deserved it or anything (and that's another thing, why would I think anybody deserves to be murdered??), he just kind of felt like killing her. Yet, I still wanted him to get away with it. WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME!?

Then there's The Phantom of the Opera, one of my favorite musicals of all time. It's canon for Christine to end up with Raoul, so typically I would accept that in my head. Nope. Not in the 2004 movie at least. I am most excited by all the scenes with Christine and the Phantom. But the Phantom's not a very good guy. He's a murderer for crying out loud! However, I always feel really bad for him and just want to cry for him. To make things worse I do NOT like Raoul (with his whinny voice and his blow-dried hair), so I always want Christine to choose the Phantom over him. But he's a psychopath murder! Once again, WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME!?

(Just so you know, I'm not really freaking out at myself here, this is just a little sarcastic rant. Although, these are genuine thoughts/concerns of mine otherwise I wouldn't have written them down. I'm just not THAT worried about them.)