“There is nothing more ironic and curious than a trapper being caught in his own trap or a plot backfiring. Ironic justice is the best revenge.” The inventor of the brazen bull, one if the most heinous torture devices in history was tricked to go inside of it and died of the torture he created.
Probably one of the greatest movies ever made features revenge as its theme: Once Upon a Time in the West. Sadly in this movie the main character doesn’t rely on ironic justice happening by God or chance. Driven by revenge he devotes his life seeking it until he gets it. He lives around his devotion. Everywhere else not in the west faces jail time if caught getting payback. —Unless you work for the government and you can get away with it by acting under the cloth of law.
One of the themes of the Bible is vengeance and retribution and ironic justice and the peace it will bring to the mind and emotions. Life is not possible without first justice and revenge or punishment by God— is a conclusion after reading the Bible
” Future don’t matter to us. Nothing matters now, not the land, not the money, not the woman; I came here to see you. Cause I know that now you’ll tell me what you’re after. “Only at the point of dying.” “I know”
—Scene before the dance of death and duel in the movie: Once Upon a Time in the West.
—Only in the West. Will vengeance come in the form of ironic justice for those who wait?