In Dorothy, through four characters, the director shows the spectrum of society's rationalization of honour killings. The parotta master is a kind man, who feeds poor kids and proudly says there's no need to pay for love. But when it comes to Subbu, he justifies and rationalizes the honour killing as mercy killing. This recasting a heinous crime as compassion, allows him to sleep peacefully. The police constable is not that kind. He bends laws for powerful people, for a suitable fee. He assuages his conscience saying that honour killing isn't something people do for pleasure. In his worldview, it's an unpleasant duty. He sleeps telling himself "you got to do, what you got to do". The hero, Karthik , himself initially considers honor killing. He tells himself that it's the only way to save his mother. But a part of him knows thats not the whole truth. He's a victim of childhood bullying and has internalised the idea that shrinking from violence and showing vulnerability is unmanly. He hates any man displaying femininity possibly because it reminds him of his childhood. A feminine man holds a mirror to his past and that deepens the disgust. He partially justifies his action by the disgust he feels. The villain ( whistle veeraiya) is the only character who's honest about honor killing. He at least doesn't pretend to himself that he's a good guy. Paradoxically the only one who sees the evil of taking a life for so called honour, is the man (Vadivu) who spent his youth as a murderer. The silent supporters who rationalize, justify or passively enable honour killing are one of the major reasons for its continuation even today.