Listening and speaking

Roselyn 2022-04-20 09:02:01

When did we stop actually communicating face-to-face, listening and speaking in our native language with a real human being. The most impressive part of the movie, or the one that grabbed me, was the part where Frank went to the office and had a conversation with a colleague. What are the topics we share, TV, Internet, radio and speech from others, and the content that constitutes these topics is speech from other TV, Internet, radio and others. Our seemingly liberal life is actually an authoritarian world of thought. I'm almost forgetting when was the last time a productive conversation happened, when we had Google and wikis, questioning and answering were almost a luxury. In fact, this so-called liberalism has indeed successfully eroded human thinking ability, and it has become more and more difficult to find someone who can independently explore the philosophy of mind and body.
If we go back to the current social picture of the United States laid out in the film, we see these depraved, ugly and disgusting, pretentious, despicable plots, their root is not the proliferation of liberalism, and it is not free transition at all. Unfortunately, there is absolutely no freedom at all here. Human beings are born free, it is the freedom of thought, and only the freedom of thought. All our conduct, including speech, is at any given time subject to tighter or looser constraints—from morality to law.
Where did this rude America come from? She is not from anywhere, she is always here. Pride, jealousy, rage, laziness, greed, gluttony, lust, etc., have never disappeared or weakened since the beginning of human beings. The floods and beasts we think of today are still overturning the rivers and seas a thousand years ago.

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  • Frank: [On the air] My name is Frank. That's not important. The important question is: who are you? America has become a cruel and vicious place. We reward the shallowest, the dumbest, the meanest and the loudest. We no longer have any common sense of decency. No sense of shame. There is no right and wrong. The worst qualities in people are looked up to and celebrated. Lying and spreading fear is fine as long as you make money doing it. We've become a nation of slogan-saying, bile-spewing hatemongers. We've lost our kindness. We've lost our soul. What have we become? We take the weakest in our society, we hold them up to be ridiculed, laughed at for our sport and entertainment. Laughed at to the point, where they would literally rather kill themselves than live with us anymore.

  • Office Worker: So what about you Frank? Did you see that freak on "American Superstars" last night?

    Frank: What?

    Office Worker: Last night; that freak on "American Superstarz."

    Frank: No... I mean yes, I saw that accidentally. I don't watch "American Superstarz"

    Office Worker: You don't watch it, but you saw him. What are you too good for the show?

    Frank: Yeah, I'm too good for a karaoke contest that makes stars out of people with no talent.

    Office Worker: *Laugh You can't say that dude, some of those kids have real talent.

    Frank: No they don't. They have good pitch... they're relatively clean, they're non-threatening to little girls and old ladies, they have the ability to stand in line with a stadium full of other desperate and confused people, but I assure you they are talent-free.

    Office Worker: Yeah, well I bet 32 million people would disagree with you bro, because that's how many people called-in to vote last year on the finale.

    Frank: I wish I was a super-genius inventor and could come up with a way to make a telephone into an explosive device that was triggered by the "American Superstarz" voting number. The battery could explode and leave a mark on the face, so I could know who to avoid talking to before they even talked. And I could look and say, "Hm, no you're gonna be saying anything that's going to add any value to my life."

    Office Worker: Yeah, but it's funny. I mean you gotta admit that. Steven Clark, that's funny shit Frank...

    Frank: It's not nice to laugh at someone who's not all there. It's the same type of freak-show distraction that comes along every time a mighty empire starts collapsing. "American Superstarz" is the new colosseum and I won't participate in watching a show where the weak are torn apart every week for our entertainment. I'm done, really, everything is so "cool" now. I just want it all to stop. I mean, nobody talks about anything anymore. They just regurgitate everything they see on TV, or hear on the radio or watch on the web. When was the last time you had a real conversation with someone without somebody texting or looking at a screen or a monitor over your head? You know, a conversation about something that wasn't celebrities, gossip, sports, or pop politics. You know, something important, something personal.