dog town

Colt 2022-04-23 07:01:46

The clips of the movie flashed back to my mind. I have a lot to say. Can poverty be evil? Or are people born evil? Do you have the power to decide the life and death of others? Grace grew up in a mafia family, why did she not directly blacken but instead have a critical brain, able to see life from another angle? And 4/5 of the whole movie, Grace really has a heart of gold. So much so that it's a little too much. Of course, you will understand later that she actually saves others by herself, and believes that everyone's moral standards are the same as hers. In fact, everyone is demanding Bill with their own moral standards, but we do not have the great and compassionate hearts of grace.
Compared to her, we are all part of Dogtown, and only she is God.
The content of this part is similar to Cheng Xin's. In fact, they all just look at the world with their own moral standards. But the reason why they are so wrong is because there is no morality in this world and the entire universe. In fact, who can't see through who, just didn't say it. Cheng Xin's dog town is too big, and she doesn't have a father to end her, but Grace does. That's the difference.
Seeing the back, after Grace figured out the whole thing, she felt a sense of pleasure when she killed Zhen. I know it's fake, they're all just actors, but it still feels that way. But, do people really have the right to decide the life and death of others or the right or wrong of others? Everyone is an independent individual with an independent mind. Their actions are all out of this, why should someone decide the life and death of others? But thinking about it is relieved. This is the same as primitive society, if you have a fist, you can. In modern society, human beings think that they have approved a layer of civilization, but they have only turned their fists into power. So, neither grace nor Dogtown is wrong. They just used their power. Dogtown people used the right to use grace, and grace used the gun. How is it different from a tiger eating a man? Probably the only thing that is wrong is that there are still people who believe in human nature...

Can poverty make evil? is it not OK? In fact, it is possible to be rich or poor. It's just that you take advantage of your ability to do evil, and others will use other rights to deal with you. Weigh the pros and cons before doing it. I remember there is a saying that there is no right or wrong for adults, only pros and cons. It couldn't be more right. Perhaps this trade-off of pros and cons has become so-called morality, and further into law.

However, when I saw Grace being raped, I couldn't help but think, if she were a man, would anyone dare to do this? No, such a noble and tall man, no one dares to bully him. So, women are always seen as weak in this world. The director's choice of a female protagonist may not have realized it at all...but it's true. In fact, women are not without aggression, and the ending also proves this. Don't mess with women is not meant to be a warning. But because those who provoke women dare not provoke men.

The director was so tactful and put the scene on a big stage so that the audience and actors would not be distracted by the outside set and instead focus more on the story itself. And the story has nothing to do with the setting.

I want to say too much, it's a bit incoherent, there are too many typos, and I don't want to sort it out. The purpose is just to talk, the goal is achieved.

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Dogville quotes

  • Narrator: How could she ever hate them for what was at bottom merely their weakness? She would probably have done things like those that had befallen her if she had lived in one of these houses. To measure them by her own yardstick, as her father put it. Would she not, in all honesty, have done the same as Chuck and Vera and Ben and Mrs Henson and Tom and all these people in their houses? Grace paused and as she did, the clouds scattered and let the moonlight through, and Dogville underwent another of those little changes of light. It was as if the light previously so merciful and faint finally refused to cover up for the town any longer. Suddenly, you could no longer imagine a berry that would appear one day on a gooseberry bush, but only see the thorn that was there right now. The light now penetrated every unevenness and flaw in the buildings and in the people. And all of a sudden, she knew the answer to her question all too well. If she had acted like them, she could not have defended a single one of her actions and could not have condemned them harshly enough. It was as if her sorrow and pain finally assumed their rightful place. No. What they had done was not good enough. And if one had the power to put it to rights, it was one's duty to do so - for the sake of other towns, for the sake of humanity and not least, for the sake of the human being that was Grace herself.

  • Narrator: [as McKay explores even further with his hand] It was not Grace's pride that kept her going during the days when fall came and the trees were losing their leaves, but more of a trance like state that descends on animals whose lives are threatened - a state in which the body reacts mechanically in a low tough gear, without too much painful reflection. Like a patient passively letting his disease hold sway.