All the God's Men

Izaiah 2022-03-21 09:02:52

Lies, terrible lies.
You thought you found and escaped and fought back successfully, only to find yourself still in it when it was too late.
Or is it better to not know it from the beginning, or to endure it at all?
In short, better than dead.


I don't know why I am moved by such a movie. As usual, I don't feel that way about such a political movie. But maybe that's why Lao Ann, Xiao Qiu, Bad Xi and Kai Wen will play. Because this movie is really unusual.
Aside from the political intrigue, I think it's a bit of philosophical thinking. The whole story is JACK's brainstorming. His choices, his doubts, his past... Everything was tangled in a net against the backdrop of a political situation, trapping everyone. ...I want to call them weak. Not because of its own strength or anything else. is a weakness. In fact, all of us are weak. Both have the side that is most easily knocked down. If only you know or someone who has no desire for you knows, it doesn't make any sense, except that the human heart is something you can never see through. From a scientific point of view, you can never read the human brain.
Everyone else's weaknesses are obvious. But what about jack? I think it's his eyes, he believes too much in what he sees and is too attached to it. He sacrificed too much for this, and even if he finally understood, it would be useless. This is probably the greatest sadness. You know what to do, but you can't.
There is no right or wrong in life, there are only countless choices. A phrase commonly used by Westerners turns out to be really deeply implanted in blood vessels. Or gray matter?

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  • Layne 2022-03-16 09:01:06

    "What you don't know won't hurt you" The lineup is gorgeous, and Jude Law acted very charmingly. In the political world, there is no such thing as black and white. Everyone is just a pawn of others. Some static shots are so beautiful that I like them.

  • Chaz 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    Power is like a drug, it can devour anyone, no matter how good their intentions or their rhetoric, from ancient times to today, without exception. Sean Penn is already a god, is there anything he can't play?

All the King's Men quotes

  • Jack Burden: To find something, anything, a great truth or a lost pair of glasses, you must first believe there would be some advantage in finding it. I found something a long time ago, and have held on to it for grim death ever since. I owe my success in life to it; it put me where I am today. This principle: what you don't know, won't hurt you. They called it idealism in a book I read.

  • Jack Burden: [to Anne, explaining what happened to his marriage] A lot of tangled bedclothes and unspoken loathing, then spoken loathing and no tangled bedclothes.