good and evil

Miles 2022-03-21 09:01:28

At the beginning of the film, John Travolta's remarks said the end-the villain wins, indeed this is the bottom line that most movies dare not touch, and it reminds me of the rare ending in the chaos. But obviously the director did not dare to do so thoroughly. So the victorious villain becomes the hero who saves America. In fact, I'm tired of watching the big reunion, and it's good to have a little darkness occasionally.
On the other hand, the film discusses the great good and the small evil. As one of Travolta's lines says, "If the price of eradicating all disease was killing one kind little girl, would you do it? Or ten, or a thousand?" Too often, we're faced with a similar choice , When the heat may not be so grand, but, who is innocent? What is the dividing line between good and evil? What is the bottom line that we really can't touch?
Maybe there is no difference between right and wrong, but for each of us, we must have our own principles and our own standards, and the so-called social norms are just the embodiment of the principles and standards of the majority, or the power class. But we cannot deny the will and meaning of the few who exist. The ancient Chinese adage, don't take good for small and don't take evil for small, but sometimes, it is so difficult to measure the magnitude of good and evil.
We must learn to make our own choices in the face of good and evil.

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Swordfish quotes

  • Axl Torvalds: He exists in a world beyond your world. What we only fantasize, he does. He lives a life where nothing is beyond him. But you know what? It's all a facade. For all his charm and charisma, his wealth, his expensive toys... he's a driven, unflinching, calculating machine. He takes what he wants, when he wants... and disappears.

  • Stanley: How can you justify all this?

    Gabriel: You're not looking at the big picture Stan. Here's a scenario. You have the power to cure all the world's diseases but the price for this is that you must kill a single innocent child, could you kill that child Stanley?

    Stanley: No.

    Gabriel: You disappoint me, it's the greatest good.

    Stanley: Well how about 10 innocents?

    Gabriel: Now you're gettin' it, how about a hundred - how about a THOUSAND? Not to save the world but to preserve our way of life.

    Stanley: No man has the right to make that decision; you're no different from any other terrorist.

    Gabriel: No, you're wrong Stanley. Thousands die every day for no reason at all, where's your bleeding heart for them? You give your twenty dollars to Greenpeace every year thinking you're changing the world? What countries will harbor terrorists when they realize the consequences of what I'll do? Did you know that I can buy nuclear warheads in Minsk for forty million each? Hell, I'd buy half a dozen and even get a discount!