Another Violent story - KERBEROS

People who have seen or know about my first film are asking me about Kerberos; how do you say the name? What's it about? Didn't you get the violence out of your system on Blood Ties? And why do you like violence so much anyway? So a couple brief answers, without trying to analyze them too much or adding too much psychological mumbo jumbo. We would need more than a few pages for that! Kerberos comes from the Greek spelling of the three headed dog in their mythology, a fierce beast of various descriptions that guarded the Gates of Hades. Kerberos was subdued by Hercules as one of his twelve trials, shown to the fearful King of Tiryns, Eurystheus and then returned. That idea of allowing access to Hades, glossed over and thought of as Hell by most in the modern world, but never allowing the souls to escape, guided the creation of this story. Eventually written in Latin and later Anglicized into the more common spelling of Cerberus, the idea of getting in but not getting out remained the same. Kerberos, the movie, navigates through the underbelly of the city and the deep shadows of the human soul, and the three main characters are definitely trapped in their own hell. And though human nature tends to gravitate toward the softer "C" sound, the harder "K" sound seems to better fit the nature of this story. So... Kerberos. Violent? Yeah, pretty much. A dark tale from the dark side of human nature with a lot of pain. And I tend to want to show it, finding ways in both the script and the filming to make the audience feel it. That there are consequences to actions, even one as simple as hitting someone. They feel it. They bleed. And then hopefully the rippling waves of Karma within a small kindness, a gentle voice, a quiet touch. Hopefully as the director, I can let the audience feel both extremes. After all, I'll only have them for a couple hours, and at the rate I am going, a few times in my life. I actually don't like violence, though I recognize I am good at it, in real life and on the page, and hopefully on the screen. I do like the heroics of rising above it. I like thinking that most people wish they could and knowing that there are some people that do. And I like the idea of creating a story and movie that in just a couple hours may in some small way inspire someone to do just that.