All A Mass

Marques 2022-04-23 07:02:26

Throughout the film, I was looking forward to some kind of miracle that would save people from this quagmire of life. However, no, everyone is faced with a mess, and they are too busy to talk about saving others. In fact, what struck me the most was the middle part. When the principal and a teacher went home, the principal's indifference to his family and the indifference of the teacher's family to him.

This has taught me a lot. I can't guarantee that I will never face this messy life, but I hope that when facing a life like a quagmire, I will lose my patience when I am disturbed by various problems. When you can, don't forget not to be indifferent to your family. Home is really the last warm harbor.

In this quagmire of life, we all yearn for redemption, but perhaps the only one who can redeem us is ourselves.

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  • Henry Barthes: How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you?

    Henry Barthes: Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false.

    Henry Barthes: Examples of this in everyday life: "Oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I need to be thin, famous, fashionable." Our young men today are being told that women are whores, bitches, things to be screwed, beaten, shit on, and shamed. This is a marketing holocaust. Twenty-four hours a day for the rest of our lives, the powers that be are hard at work dumbing us to death.

    Henry Barthes: So to defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own belief systems. We all need skills to defend, to preserve our own minds.

  • Henry Barthes: [agitated at assisted living nurse] Let me be very clear here, you stop neglecting his needs, or I will start fucking with yours! I will have you fired! Then it's going to be your family! Your children are gonna be at risk! You got it?