Talk about this love without talking about competition

Amiya 2022-08-20 23:11:27

The cruelty of law school will be meaningless to some people. This competition is pre-filtered. It is very good to see the sentence: When writing PS, you must think clearly, otherwise you will not be able to survive the admission.

In the middle of the film, Hart and the professor's daughter are arguing by the frozen lake. The girl says that a law student like Hart is too sane. Hart said, okay, then I will show you irrationality! I want to walk on the ice! After all, walking into the lake is just a thin ice surface. Hart shouted again: I can still walk upside down! But within a few seconds, the ice surface creaked and cracked. Hart asked the girl to throw the coat at him and crawled to the shore not far away. As soon as I received a corner of the jacket, the ice surface also sank. Sure enough, both of them fell in.

Look, this is the love of law students: if you say that I am too rational, then I will immediately do the most irrational thing for you right now! It's not necessary, but it must be pissed off, romantic enough.

The girl's daddy issue is quite serious. She doesn't like or understand the things that people like male protagonists care most about, but she chooses French students time and time again. The conversation in the father's study also seemed naive to the girl. From this point of view, Kevin's partner is better.

Falling in love with someone is an impulsive irrationality, but this impulse cannot be a guarantee of happiness. Disagreement with the other's pursuit and lifestyle can make getting along hard. At the end of the film, the female protagonist handed the male protagonist an envelope containing the transcript, and she also received a divorce certificate that she had been waiting for. Their respective worries have come to an end, and they are not separated from each other. But apart from that moment in the glacier, I didn't see much true love.

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The Paper Chase quotes

  • [last lines]

    Susan Fields: Here's your mail.

    [hands Hart an envelope marked "GRADES ENCLOSED"]

    Susan Fields: I just got a letter from my father, something very interesting. My divorce is final. A piece of paper, and I'm free.

    [pauses]

    Susan Fields: Aren't you going to open your grades?

  • Susan Fields: They finally got you, Hart, they sucked all that Midwestern charm right out of you. Look, he's got you scared to death. You're going to pass, because you're the kind the law school wants. You'll get your little diploma. Your piece of paper that's no different than this

    [toilet paper roll]

    Susan Fields: and you can stick it in your silver box with all the other paper in your life. Your birth certificate, driver's license, marriage license, your stock certificates, and your will... I wish you would flunk, there might be some hope for you.