Reality is hard, fooling is the norm

Nels 2022-03-21 09:02:52

Very real world, the governor's son who was easily fooled, because he started with doubts in the beginning. And the principled Spike, who wanted to do things and could do things, died because of his love for women. Although he did not affect politics because of it, this made Adam angry and easily deceived. Only Jack, who understood and supported Spike from beginning to end, even though he was angry, could calmly understand and accept human nature. And Kate, one of the fundamental reasons why she went to Spike's bed is Jack's disappointment, because of love, and her self-righteousness when she was young. Jude Law was a standard handsome man when he was young, but it was not good and profound. It was better as a writer and this film, and he finally became himself. It's great that Kate can show the beauty and brilliance of her youth at an older age. Sean Penn's small town people are not fake, as well as the driver's attractiveness, and Hopkins, whose face and figure are deformed, are just the same. Charismatic old lady secretary, lieutenant governor, mother Jack, ... none of them are weak. The point is so real, politics, voters, when the good guys get everything right, but get stuck on that trivial thing. Still a politician who knows the rules of the game, a tumbler. Reality is very difficult, fooling is the norm, always asking good people to have no shortcomings, and only letting bad people prevail.

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All the King's Men quotes

  • Willie Stark: Time brings all things to light, I trust it so.

  • Jack Burden: The friend of your youth is the only friend you'll ever have. For he doesn't really see you. He sees in his mind a face which doesn't exist anymore, speaks a name... Spike, Bud, Red, Rusty... Jack... that belongs to that now nonexistent face. He's still the young idealist you used to be, still sees good and bad in black and white and men as sinners or saints but never both and feels superior in the knowledge that you no longer can distinguish the two. That's what drives you to it. To try to stick the knife in. There is a kind of snobbery in failure like the twist to the mouth of a drunk.