In the past two days, there has been a shooting incident in the United States. One or two guns fired multiple rifles from the hotel on the 32nd floor for no reason at the crowd in the square, killing 59 people and injuring 527 people. Immediately, the entire United States was in grief and sorrow, and there was an uproar. People are asking: what happened to America? After people gradually calmed down, they began to question the US gun control policy. At this time, I watched the movie "Ms. Sloan". It just so happens that the main clue of this movie is about gun ownership and gun control.
Before watching it, I browsed the comments about this movie on the website, and I said everything. It gives the impression that this movie is a very good-looking but very difficult movie to watch. So, I watched it twice. The first impression is that although the movie revolves around the gun ownership and gun control bill, its essence is not there. Gun control is just a pretext, an introduction to the movie. It's like the Yilin MLM case that happened in the past two years. Planting trees is for the purpose, and making money is the purpose. People as smart as Uncle Ge have been tricked into it.
The film tells that Sloan, a strong woman, works for a lobbying company, lobbying politicians for the interests of various clients, to achieve the purpose of influencing policies. She took on a case to lobby senators for a gun control bill. To this end, she devoted all her strength, used various means, and even betrayed the privacy of a colleague. In the end, she did not hesitate to take advantage of her own future and freedom, and finally defeated her opponent. (It's a bit of a spoiler, if you haven't seen the movie, please skip this paragraph).
Some friends say that this film is like "House of Cards", which is a power struggle film, and some friends say that it is like Japan's "Golden Eclipse", which is a commercial competition film. The purpose of power struggle is to gain power, and then to control the political situation and seek benefits. The purpose of business competition is to obtain the maximum profit, and there is not enough money to spend. Hong Kong translated this film into "Gun Crazy Empire", and Taiwan translated it into "Assault the Enemy Must Save", I don't think it's accurate. It's better to use the original name "Ms. Sloan". She didn't want to be a rich woman or Thatcher. She does things just to win, not for power and money.
The film actually describes such a typical woman: perseverance and composure, courage to challenge, scheming, regardless of reputation. In her dictionary, there is only winning but not losing. All we see are her persistent, maddening efforts, and from this we can also feel the foreshadowing of her personal tragedy. In my opinion, her thought process is as follows: Before taking over a matter, she first judges the justice of the matter, and doing the right thing is always her starting point and first. There were also politicians who entrusted her to lobby for gun ownership, but she categorically refused. As long as she does what she thinks is right, she will go all out without hesitation, even if her employer offers her a price of "0". Secondly, she took over a right thing and did it. She did it for her own reputation. This "reputation" is not the reputation and status we usually understand, but the "reputation" that demonstrates the strongman's attitude and dueling style. The third is to do for the cause, but never to accommodate the cause.
Next is the means of doing things. As she herself said: "The point of lobbying is to gain insight into the opportunities, predict the opponent's moves, and then design countermeasures. The winner is always one step ahead of the opponent, and when the opponent flips his trump card, he will show the trump card." She has never been influenced by traditional morality. In her private life, she abused drugs and attracted male prostitutes; in her work, she hurt friends, organized illegal surveillance, and lied a lot. And all she did was to maintain her energy and use all kinds of legitimate and illegitimate tricks to defeat her opponent. Privately, she also doubted her actions. She confessed to the friends and colleagues she had hurt and said, "Esme, I don't know where the line is." Esme replied, "When you don't respect people, you It has crossed the line."
For Sloan and all those who want to do great things, morality has never been a hindrance to them, nor have they ever wanted to be a "good person." She saw too much depravity, too much hypocrisy. She used despicable means to deal with traitors, and used shamelessness to expose even greater shamelessness. All of this, is moral decay or ideological sublimation? In any case, ordinary people like me are not qualified to judge yet.
Give some background information. Sloan and Jane talked about Socrates many times. Socrates was a famous thinker, philosopher and orator in ancient Greece . Naturally, it is also a role model for employees in lobbying companies. His life stories and achievements are all recorded by his disciples. That's why it is said that those books were not written by Socrates himself. He did not allow the slightest blasphemy of the most sacred beliefs, so he chose death resolutely. This experience will have a big impact on Ms. Sloan.
Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The full text is this: "A regulated force is necessary to ensure the security of a free state, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is inviolable." Baidu said this: The first group of European immigrants who took the "Mayflower" to the North American continent depended on weapons to take root in this land. Surrounded by beasts and Indian natives, weapons became everyone A tool for peace of mind. Since then, thirteen states in North America have gradually formed. Because there is no standing government army, each state relies on the militia for self-defense, and the state government has gradually intervened in the management of weapons. Some state governments even punish residents who do not have weapons. With the start of the Revolutionary War , the influence of the militia further expanded, and it was these armed civilians who fought against the British army for 8 years and successfully won the Revolutionary War. After the founding of the United States, when the " Bill of Rights " of the US Constitution of 1789 was introduced by members of Congress, the right to "keep and bear arms" was naturally written into it, and it was ratified and officially entered into force in 1791. In order to limit the strong government and prevent the government's power from expanding and infringing on the rights of citizens, it is also an important inner spirit of this bill to give citizens a weapon of resistance.
Today, the status quo of the United States is very different from the early days of the founding of the country. Do these provisions in the constitution need to be revised? As Ms. Sloan said, "Nothing is beyond doubt, including the Constitution." To be honest, I have a deep admiration for what Ms. Sloan said here.
Ms. Sloan has always been unsmiling, never showing her inner world to others. There is only one person, that male prostitute Fud. Ford, risking perjury, protected Sloan at a critical moment. Sloan stared at him with affectionate eyes as Ford stepped down from the courtroom. Obviously, in Sloan's mind, Ford was much nobler than the politicians and businessmen Sloan had known.
Ms. Sloan is played by Jessica Chastain. Won the Golden Lion Award for Best Actress (Nominated). She has played women with different personalities before. She also received seven movies in one year, and can be called a female model worker. She played Sloan, very well, especially in the subtleties, with smiles, frowns, and every move, it's so good!
At the end of the film, Ms. Sloan walked out of the prison and was walking when her eyes suddenly brightened, and she seemed to see the person who was picking her up. Who is this person? Maybe Ford, maybe Esme, maybe her boss, Schmidt, maybe her entire team, maybe... not one of them. The movie stops here and ends.
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