I think my basic feeling about Keamy and Ben is that I find Keamy more frightening and more dangerous and Ben more disturbing. Keamy I can't get very interested about, though obviously his presence has interesting implications for the welfare of anyone around him - he kills mercilessly and apparently without any qualms or forethought, making him, in my view, about as interesting a tidal wave. Ben is a much deeper character at the moment, but more disturbing than Keamy because, oddly, he shows more in the way of an albeit very twisted humanity: he does kill or order the deaths of the innocent, whatever he might like to think (was Charlie guilty? Bonnie? Greta? The Bedouin?), but he's rationalised it according to his own 'moral code' (which Keamy seems to lack entirely) - he 'needed' Charlie to die; his father 'deserved' to die ... which is why he feels, in spite of much evidence to the contrary, that he can get away with saying he isn't a killer. Whereas Keamy feels no need to rationalise anything at all because the killing seemingly isn't something that troubles him in any sense - which, in my view, makes him more terrifying that but not as infuriating as Ben.
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