Actually it has always existed

Emmitt 2021-12-30 17:17:10

The whole film seems to have been unfolding around black and white. In the end, when the problem lies with the mayor who wanders between black and white, I didn't realize that what the film wanted to say was actually gray.
Gray is a color that is easily overlooked, but it really exists in all levels of society. Thinking back now, don't most of our movies also show the gray that exists in different parts of life. The newborn calf, the deputy mayor, and those of us who have just graduated from school, all of us have only black and white eyes, only good people and bad people, classify people in this world, classify ourselves, but always fail, always have some People, you can't tell what's bad, but you just can't be classified as a good person. Now I finally understand that even if it is not recognized, it still exists. Not in the form of rules, or habit, or in any written or unwritten form, but it exists in this way and affects you and me in society.
Gray is a necessity. Humans are still very ignorant. You can't ask for billions of years to open up the world, we will understand everything at once, we know everything, we will deal with everything, and we have established rules for everything. The meaning of gray is that you still have room for improvement, there are still holes to drill, and there are places where the sun is not fully shining.
For young people, the first thing is to see gray and recognize gray. This is not easy. In fact, we must be good at walking in gray. Because it really exists, and it does not depend on the will of the individual. Accept it. This is a kind of self-protection. Again, whether to turn gray into white, or let it continue to gray, or the last choice is to turn gray into black, this is related to personal values ​​and ambitions.

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City Hall quotes

  • Mayor John Pappas: Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment. There are no cold answers, are there? There's no simple yes or no. A man's life is not the bricks, it's the mortar, pappy, it's the stuff that lays between, the stuff... the stuff you can't see. I've known Walter my whole life. God, the man is - he's a decent man, he's a good man.

    Kevin Calhoun: This is tough stuff. This is body bag stuff. You tell me, if there's some other way.

    Mayor John Pappas: There isn't. The die's been cast; it was cast a long time ago. Go easy: give him a blindfold and have mercy. Walter Stern was a tough man, but he was fair. We give back the same, no?

  • [heading into a press conference]

    Kevin Calhoun: You look good.

    Mayor John Pappas: Of course - I'm the mayor.

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