the way of the poor

Tatyana 2022-04-20 09:01:38

"This whole thing is really scary, in fact, it's all avoidable. If John was a rich man, it wouldn't be like this. He's an oil tycoon, but he doesn't understand that what this country respects is not value, but price. We have rich people and poor people, white-collar workers, manual laborers, and unemployed people. Therefore, in hospitals, there are luxurious surgeries, spring surgeries, and bad surgeries. There are many people in this society, and many people do not have 250,000 people. It’s a shame that people are pushed to a desperate situation. In my opinion, this is a disorder of the social system. What do I know? I’m just a worker...”
Indeed, we are not rich, so we have to take the path of the poor, take desperate risks, and take Live to gamble.
The ending of the movie is quite happy, the son was given a new life, and the father was only sentenced to two or three years. This is a movie. In reality, I always thought it would be like this: the son died of illness in the end, the father was ashamed of his responsibility and shot himself, the mother Madness.

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John Q quotes

  • Denise: [angrily over the phone with John] They are releasing him, now you need to do something! DO YOU HEAR ME! DO SOMETHING!

  • John Q. Archibald: [shouting at the Medicaid Official over the counter] My son is dying, and I'm broke. If I don't qualify for Medicare, WHO THE HELL DOES?