It's his life.

Ed 2022-12-11 09:37:00

I didn't know why it was called David Gore's life until I finished it. Later, I went back and read the lecture in the class when David Gore first recalled. He quoted Lacan's theory on the podium: fantasy must be unrealistic . So he came to the conclusion: living in fantasy will never be happy, a real person, always pursuing goals and ideals is what really matters, and a person should not be measured by how much his desires are achieved, but by his Characters such as sincerity, compassion, rationality, and even self-sacrifice. "Self-sacrifice"! ! So the director laid the foreshadowing early, David Gore's life is for the goal of his lifelong pursuit - abolition of the death penalty, to constantly strive, struggle, and even make a self-sacrifice play to achieve his lifelong pursuit. The whole movie is the history of David Gore's pursuit, so it is called the life of David Gore. In fact, the director needs to live transparently in order to derive a transparent and logical story line and the character line of the characters. China is too repressed, and the directors are talented, but because they are deeply immersed in their own world morality, they are not clear about the rationale. Therefore, Chinese films are either three or four. They are either too obscure to swallow, or too naive for kindergarten classes. . I noticed one detail. American movies are always full of all kinds of extremely life-like details and lines. There is a kind of precision that seems to be impossible to say such lines if another actor is changed. How it was written without knowing the actors, I don't know, but it's really impressive. This is not a movie, this is reality. When such details of life appear, they are faced with all kinds of mirror movements. , montage and other artificially arranged traces, I no longer feel deceived, I seem to know that these are secondary, this story happened, the director knows so many details, this story must be true, these artificially arranged traces are all Just for the sake of recreating the way the story is, don't mind them. In this way, I was thoroughly persuaded, so I was immersed, and I felt emotional. In the end, the "last minute rescue" was not reproduced, which made me a little uncomfortable.

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  • Constance Harraway: Stop that!

    David Gale: What?

    Constance Harraway: Active listening, I hate active listeners. I always feel like they're to busy *pretending* to be listening to hear what I'm saying.

    David Gale: I can listen and actively listen at the same time. I'm good at that.

  • David Gale: Fantasies have to be unrealistic because the moment, the second that you get what you seek, you don't, you can't want it anymore. In order to continue to exist, desire must have its objects perpetually absent. It's not the "it" that you want, it's the fantasy of "it." So, desire supports crazy fantasies. This is what Pascal means when he says that we are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness. Or why we say the hunt is sweeter than the kill. Or be careful what you wish for. Not because you'll get it, but because you're doomed not to want it once you do. So the lesson of Lacan is, living by your wants will never make you happy. What it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals and not to measure your life by what you've attained in terms of your desires but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice. Because in the end, the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives is by valuing the lives of others.