What is the difference between morality and ethics?

Garett 2021-12-09 08:01:33

Jim is a humanities and history teacher. In class, he asked students a question: What is the difference between morality and ethics?

He also asked his colleague Dave the same question. Dave messed with Tracy, who is a top student (and political ideal), and was forced to resign, then divorced, and finally went to the supermarket to check in.

The core of this play is the campus student union election. Jim doesn't like this student Tracy, she is too good and too ambitious, and she also made his colleague Dave lose his job.

In the end, Tracy won the election, one vote difference, but Jim secretly threw Tracy's two ballots into the trash can. In this way, PAUL won. The two classmates who helped count the votes at the beginning gave Tracy a gesture to watch the vote count secretly. It means you won. Tracy was elated. JIM also saw Tracy outside the door. That face made him hate. So JIM Started to decide to cheat and prevent Tracy from being elected.

People are not as good as the sky, but the uncle who cleans up the trash found these two votes (foreshadowing, at the beginning of the movie, JIM littered and threw the mushy trash out of the trash can, causing unsatisfied uncle), and at the same time refused to accept the plan. The students who voted, and of course Tracy and his mother, found the principal's office.

The principal said to JIM: You submit your resignation, and I accept your resignation.

Finally, JIM left Omaha and went to New York to work as a museum commentator. He also happened to meet Tracy once. JIM went to Washington for a meeting. He saw Tracy and Washington executives talking and laughing together, and then they got into the extended luxury car together, JIM Very angry, he smashed Coca-Cola at the luxury car, and the luxury car came to a halt, and JIM ran away in fright.

The irony and black humor of this film is of course needless to say. The director is just a narrative and has no special point of view, but it can trigger some thoughts:

1. DAVE and Tracy got together. At first, DAVE was more active. Maybe, Tracy just borrowed This is the uppermost position. But when Dave is crying like a child in the principal's office, does it mean that Dave is just the naivety of the brain? He is just a bargaining chip for Tracy to get a good resume and apply for a good university.

2. The question of voting. Those two students who helped count the votes were on Tracy's side. After the statistics were over, they secretly gestured to Tracy to report the results of the election. Was it completely fair before then? Will there be cheating too?

3. JIM hates Tracy, partly because his colleague DAVE was "injured" by Tracy and wanted to retaliate, and partly because ordinary people like JIM hate and jealous for aggressive people? The film speaks of JIM: In fact, you don't have to stand on other people's bodies. Tracy is ambitious and original sin, she actually tore off the poster.

Perhaps, this film reflects ordinary people's views on politics, and the director also blackened and satirized Tracy with this, but is it not the same irony for JIM?

What is the difference between morality and ethics? Doesn't JIM want to fuck Dave's wife too?

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Extended Reading
  • Maiya 2022-04-20 09:01:42

    4.5; A insidiously funny and darkly satirical high school comedy boasting Payne's tight, sharp, intelligent script and Witherspoon's outstanding performance, that succeeds in dismantling everything from high school culture, to election machinery, to overachieving complacency.

  • Billie 2022-04-20 09:01:42

    incomparable miss witherspoon

Election quotes

  • Dave Novotny: It know it seems crazy, but, Jim, what I'm trying to tell you is that Tracy and I are totally, totally... in love.

    Jim McAllister: [in disbelief] In love?

    Dave Novotny: Yeah. It's serious. She inspires me in ways that Linda never has. She even wants to read my novel.

    Jim McAllister: But you haven't written your novel.

    Dave Novotny: That's the whole point! I've got the whole thing right here, I just need to get it out there. And Tracy wants me to write it so she can read it. It's beautiful.

  • [Dave's affair with Tracy has been discovered]

    Dave Novotny: [tearfully] Tracy's mom, she doesn't understand.

    Walt Hendricks: No, I'd say she doesn't. The fact is I have never seen a mother so upset. All right, I know what Tracy told her mother, what her mother told me, I need to hear this from you, because I have a legal responsibility here. Let me ask you this... Did you cross the line with this girl?

    Dave Novotny: I... We... We're in love.

    [he sobs helplessly]