Basically

Alysson 2022-01-12 08:01:05

Basically, the people who watched this film came for Oscar.

I only scored two points.

Basically, I have a relatively cold personality. I can't be a banker like his father, but I don't believe in the class harmony theory promoted here. In the education we received when we were young, capitalists wanted to eat people, and the proletariat wanted to be eaten by people. This contradiction is inherently irreconcilable, but the bourgeoisie will find ways to put a tender veil on this cannibalism system. Call this sugar-coated cannonball in our days. Basically speaking, this kind of contradiction is irreconcilable, and the ultimate solution can only be solved by the proletarian revolution after it completely overthrows the bourgeois power.

Basically, the first half of the above discussion is not a problem. Although I admit that a considerable part of my education since childhood is nonsense, this part of my education is still very good, and it truly exposes the operation of this society. Some of the mechanisms of, so we have the ability to see through the illusion of the enemy from an early age.

But-please note that this is very important. I did not say that I think there must be a revolution. On the contrary, democratic countries have a very key factor called the legal system, so there is a restraining mechanism for capitalists' natural cannibalistic nature. With taxes, benefits, and the legal system, money is naturally a halter. The film was shot in 1938. The Second World War has not yet started. The whole world does not know how to deal with the economic crisis. It is still unknown whether it will be based on the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. Hollywood is like a headless fly. I don't know that only Keynesianism can save the United States, so I put my hope on the harmonica-style theory of class harmony, which makes this film a great discount to us who have experienced the socialist revolution.

In fact, I like Stewart’s other films very much, such as Mr. Smith’s coming to Washington, It’s a wonderful life, they are all good. It is recommended that colleagues who have not watched the other two films go to watch.

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  • Tony Kirby: [in the car on the way to the opera] I was just thinking about that family of yours. Living with them must be like living in a world of Walt Disney. Everybody does just as he pleases, doesn't he?

    Alice Sycamore: Yes. Grandpa started it. He just suddenly left business one day. He started up in the elevator and turned around and came right down again and never went back. He could've been a rich man, but said he wasn't having any fun.

    Tony Kirby: Oh that's wonderful.

    Alice Sycamore: Then he started collecting stamps, because that's what he liked best. You know, he gets paid just to appraise collections. He's an expert.

    Tony Kirby: That's marvelous.

    Alice Sycamore: And my dad; he, he makes fireworks because, well, because he never grew up I guess. And mother, do you know why mother writes plays?

    Tony Kirby: Well, she probably likes literature and good books and...

    Alice Sycamore: [chuckles] Huh, nope. Because eight years ago a typewriter was delivered to the house by mistake.

    Tony Kirby: Oh, no, but eh... If it'd been a plow, she'd have taken up farming, huh?

    Alice Sycamore: I'm sure of it, if she'd liked it.

    [they smile and chuckle as the scene fades out]

  • Tony Kirby: I remember in college another guy and I had an idea to... mind if I talk about myself?

    Alice Sycamore: [smiles] If you don't, I will.

    Tony Kirby: Well, this other guy and I had this idea.

    [picks up a blade of grass and observes it while talking]

    Tony Kirby: We, we wanted to find out what made the grass grow green.

    [Alice smirks]

    Tony Kirby: Well that sounds silly and everything, but it's the biggest research problem in the world today, and I'll tell you why: because, there's a tiny little engine in the green of this grass and in the green of the trees that has the mysterious gift of being able to take energy from the rays of the sun and store it up. You see that that's how the heat and power in coal and oil and wood is stored up. Well, we thought if, if we could find the secret of all those millions of little engines in this green stuff, we could, we could make big ones! And then we could take all the power we could ever need right from the sun's rays. You see?

    Alice Sycamore: Well that's wonderful, I never knew that.

    Tony Kirby: Yeah, yeah. We worked on it and we worked and... day and night; we got so excited about it we forgot to sleep. If, if we'd make just one little discovery, well we'd just walk on air for days.

    Alice Sycamore: And, then what?

    Tony Kirby: [starts to look disheartened] Well, then we left school... now he's selling automobiles, and I'm in some strange thing called banking. I saw him a couple weeks ago. Poor guy - Bob Smith's his name - got all excited again and wanted to talk about anything else.

    Alice Sycamore: And?

    Tony Kirby: Well, he's married; wife just had a baby. He didn't think it was fair to gamble with the future. Anyway, that's his excuse for lack of courage.

    [acknowledges Alice's forlorn expression]

    Tony Kirby: Yeah, it's sad. And what's my excuse, huh? Well, the Kirby's have been bankers for nine-thousand years, or something. That line just can't be broken, and that's been pounded into my head until I've had softening of the brain.

    [tosses down the blade of grass]

    Tony Kirby: That's my excuse.

    Alice Sycamore: Tony that's kind of silly, you're pretty young to... besides I resent what you said about your brain - I think it's beautiful.

    Tony Kirby: You do, huh?

    Alice Sycamore: Mmhmm.