“I found it on amazon prime! It’s listed for some reason you have to look up The Unknown. There is also another movie with the same title The Unknown. But it’s there and it’s available for prime members. https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Caviezel/dp/B07YYPMDCL/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=The+unknown&qid=1572930233&s=instant-video&sr=1-5 “

Me. Hahahah. It’s the reason I write this blog. And to meet blokes like you!

Nice! Now, start a lending library where people can ask you to mail it to them for the weekend here in the comments and we’ll all be set!

Good questions. I didn’t dive down one layer deeper, though I could have. Think about this for a second. You come to my house and murder my family. And then hit your head on the way out, causing total amnesia. And as you begin to recover you decide, before learning of your evil past, you are going to do right, and not be the horrible person you were before your traumatic head injury.

The question is this… is the horror of your actions wiped away? For you maybe. For the viewer, maybe. But not for me. Right? So here is the complexity of it… in the vantage of a movie, we see Caviezel as the protagonist, and as the good guy. And so we assume that he is good. That he hasn’t done anything wrong. Otherwise he could not be our protagonist. He would be disqualified. (Thus the brilliance of cinema’s simple view on morality.) But when we learn later, that not only is he not good, but he also got a number of people killed while in the service of a woman who was attempting to have her husband murdered?!?!?

It metaphorically gives one the opportunity to blank slate and to start over. To not do the wrong thing over again. To do the right thing. Correct? But it doesn’t clear the slate. The amnesia is just a metaphor… it isn’t a literal wiping away of the sins. Right? So now, to your question, “What determines, or motivates a person’s moral behavior?” Everyone is going to answer this question differently. But you asked me. And so I will give you my answer. I personally believe that truth (Big T truth as I like to call it) only comes from God. And this moral code that we have written into our consciouses (don’t come to my house and shoot my family and then get amnesia… because that is really really rude.) is reflective our need and desire to connect with God.

Now, if you abhor the idea of being “subject” to a supreme being that made everything… you are going to take umbrage at this idea of obeying these moral prefects. But if you want nothing more than to spend eternity with him, well then, you are probably going to want to do the right thing. To avoid murdering a married woman’s husband for ransom and insurance money. But that is the funny thing. It’s not generally a murder thing. Or an insurance scam thing. It’s that cut that guy off in traffic thing. It’s the murder them with your mind’s eye thing. It’s the sleep with your neighbor’s wife… in your mind thing. Right?

So yeah, this concept and idea has been fueling theological and philosophical books for millennia. My little comment here can’t do it justice. But in my opinion, I believe all definitions of motivation to good and to bad, come from one’s position in relationship to God. And, even if I did screw up, and though I love God with all my heart… I choose to follow the siren in the bar, what is my heart’s condition after I realize what I have done?!? What do I do then? In the Bible there are two Jewish Kings that signify this very well. King Saul, when caught in a lie, kept on lying, and downward spiraled. But David, when caught having sex with Bathsheeba, his friend’s wife, and also murdering that friend… what was his response? It was contrition. David begged for forgiveness. So, like this movie, it isn’t exactly what we do in this life, but what we do once we realize what we’ve done is wrong. Right? So, do I turn in the chick, and myself, and admit to my enormous screw up? Or do I play it off like it didn’t happen? That is the ultimate difference here. But again, that’s just how I think… that’s where I think morality comes from.