THE GREEN GIANT

Eric Bana played a role as Bruce Banner, a man who had a problem in controlling his anger. Directed by Ang Lee, this movie brought the famous Marvel comic to the big screen as an excellent picture.

The scientist conducted an experiment under a military supervision. When the experiment eventually developed, the scientist tried to use a human, other than animals, as a subject for his experiment. Unfortunately, the military didn’t approve his actions and finally threw him out of his job.

After expelled from the project, the scientist turned mad. Mad enough to do his experiment to his own son, Bruce Banner. This act also caused him to loose his marriage. He often had fights with his wife, leaving little Bruce unable to do anything.

Being mentally disturbed, Bruce grew up to be a great scientist like his father, not knowing that something had lurked inside his veins hiding a great power ready to be unleashed. He met Betty Ross (played by Jennifer Connely) who happened to be his colleague at the lab. Betty was the daughter of a military’s powerful person who happened to be the one who fired Bruce’s father a long time ago.

Betty and Bruce worked together hand in hand at the same lab to develop a special project. They became close and Betty knows Bruce better than anyone else.

One day, there’s an accident at the lab that caused Bruce to be hit by a gamma beam. That gamma beam caused reactions to Bruce’s body that even he himself was not aware of. The beam should have killed him, but instead he became stronger and it triggered the “monster” underneath him.

Bruce frequently had bad dreams and became restless when he slept. He often got visions about his terrible childhood moments. It took a while for him to finally realize that there’s something wrong with his body. But it was too late. The chain reaction inside Bruce’s body cannot be stopped.

Until one day, when Bruce was alone at his lab, something bothered his mind so much that it triggered the chain reaction inside his body. Being not able to control his anger and mind, he transformed into a monster of the legendary green giant, The Hulk. He went berserk with incredible strength and caused so much destruction, nearly destroyed the entire lab.

Bruce could finally go back to his normal human form when his anger was no longer controlling him. But every time he felt great anger, the chemical reaction inside him would take control of his mind and transformed him into that green monster again.

The story escalated when Bruce finally had to deal with his own father’s madness, his terrible childhood memories, and the whole military power. He didn’t know whether to call the power within him a blessing or a curse. Betty struggled hard to find a way to deal with the green monster using other than brute forces. But she got her father standing between him and Bruce.

This is not a movie about anger management, but it surely reminds us what happen if we cannot control our anger. Usually it ends badly and it will bring almost the whole world against you. We all had unpleasant childhood memories, terrible past times, and many other problems that cause us to loose our temper. We all had “the green giant” inside of us. It became a problem if you cannot control it.

So, the Hulk tried to prove that he couldn’t be stopped. Even all the military power couldn’t stop his rage. Few tried to save him, yet many tried to waste him. The whole world was against him. How far a man can push his anger upon the whole world?

Ivan the Freelancer