Like getting a flashlight at the turntable, he said it wasn't luck, it was chance. In fact, this is everyone's fate
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we are all the mercy of chance
Xzavier 2022-10-30 23:56:22
The previous middle-class classics have been reduced, and the show of philosophy is still there. Although behind each scene, he seems to be able to see his complacent and genitals showing off, but the shooting is smooth. Thinking of Maugham's novels, the middle-class bitch who was moved by him, the middle-aged philosophical uncle who was moved by him, and the swinging medical aunt who was moved by him, each character is interpreting a person who was moved to tears by himself. situation.
Like getting a flashlight at the turntable, he said it wasn't luck, it was chance. In fact, this is everyone's fate
Like getting a flashlight at the turntable, he said it wasn't luck, it was chance. In fact, this is everyone's fate
Extended Reading
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[first lines]
Abe: [narrating] Kant said human reason is troubled by questions that it cannot dismiss, but also cannot answer. Okay, so, what are we talking about here? Morality? Choice? The randomness of life? Aesthetics? Murder?
Jill: I think Abe was crazy from the beginning. Was it from stress? Was it anger? Was he disgusted by what he saw as life's never-ending suffering? Or was he simply bored by the meaninglessness of day-to-day existence? He was so damn interesting. And different. And a good talker. And he could always cloud the issue with words.
Abe: Where to begin? You know, the existentialists feel nothing happens until you hit absolute rock bottom. Well, let's say that when I went to teach at Braylin College, emotionally, I was at Zabriskie Point. Of course, my reputation, or should I say a reputation, preceded me.
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Abe Lucas: Jill had been right in her appraisal of me. I was teetering on the brink of some kind of breakdown, unable to deal with my feelings of anger, frustration, futility. They say that drowning is a painless way to go.