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Sacrifice the ego to complete the larger ego?
Makenna 2022-03-22 09:01:25
One of the highlights of this movie is that within 5 minutes of the beginning of the movie, it can stimulate people's male hormones and adrenaline, and make people's blood flow! However, the overly intense and unusual beginning makes the middle narrative part long and uninteresting. In fact, the dialogue at the beginning of the movie shows that the movie will not go the usual way, not only in the next few minutes, but also in the end. The villain portrayed in the movie finally escaped the legal net, and has always implemented his own belief: for the interests of the majority, it can be achieved at the expense of the few. That's actually a question the film wants to ask people. Similar to the topic that has been discussed: five children are playing on the rails, a train is about to come and hit them, then you have the track changer, which can be used to change the train's route, but if you Choose to change the train running track and a child playing on the other side of the track will not be spared. What are your options? The movie gives an answer, as Fate Zero Kiritsugu does. But what Kiritsugu did in Fate ended up in tragedy to some extent.
Extended Reading
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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.
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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!