Strangers

Skylar 2022-04-21 09:01:51

Man is always the "hostage" of his own history. ——Selznick The prostitute hopes to use the lesbian girl as the starting point for her new life, and the lesbian girl hopes to rely on the prostitute as a springboard for her independence, but the difference in values ​​will always gradually manifest with the passage of passion, and the illusory love for each other will become In order to be held hostage, the vicious person compromises to gain recognition, and the repressed person is fearless because he has the initiative. When forced self-defense becomes the norm of killing people, when everything is irreversible, the two become helpless again, and then inevitably part ways. After parting ways, not peace, but the abyss of destruction. It's just that this kind of destruction, with some color of self-sacrifice, still continues this emotional inequality. PS In the process of educating children and students, they always talk about what kind of career can be achieved with higher education, blahblahblah-style hype, it is better to talk about the fate of not receiving higher education, such as which jobs cannot be applied for at all. more realistic and effective.

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  • Aileen: Everybody just thinks I'm this bad shitty fucking person, and all I'm fucking tryin' to do is survive, you know?

    Thomas: I know. I know what you do for a living. It doesn't bother me. I know you didn't dial it up on a goddamn telephone. That's where you landed. That's what you had to do. What you're feeling right now is just guilt, over something you had absolutely no control over. You know how many of us came back from the war? And almost killed ourselves because we felt exactly the same thing you do, right now.

    Aileen: Yeah?

    Thomas: Yeah. And they'll never get it. They'll never get it now, they never got it then, and they sure as hell won't get fucking circumstance!

    Aileen: Fuck, man, circumstance, that's exactly it, that's exactly it. You know I feel like I never even had a fucking choice.

    Thomas: You never did. But you gotta live. You gotta live.

  • Aileen: [points to the bartender] You owe me change!

    [pause]

    Aileen: Fuck it. I'm outta here!

    Selby: Oh, are you sure-

    [touches Lee's shoulder]

    Aileen: [rises from chair and pushes Selby off] GET YOUR FUCKIN' HANDS OFF ME, YOU DUMB DYKE! I'm not gonna fuck you for a fucking beer, alright? So, stop wasting your fuckin' time!