Defender? no Fraudster? yes

Aliza 2022-04-18 17:34:53

After watching this film, I only have one question, why do so many people call the male protagonists "defenders"? It's obviously a group of "fraudsters" who deliberately used conspiracies to mislead the government.

Obviously, they are a group of fraudsters who use unscrupulous means for the purpose of "abolishing the death penalty". In order to do something they think is "meaningful", they directly gamble their terminally ill body to do something they think is "great". But ignore the facts. The fact is what the opposing party said. He has no example of wrongly convicting a case. As a result, the male protagonist and the others will use their own lives to "cheating" at his words. In order to "win", do whatever it takes.

How could such a group of people become "guardians"? Obviously a bunch of fraudsters, okay? You must know that "helping others to commit suicide" is also a crime, but the movie just ignores such an important fact, and keeps exaggerating how great they are, desperate for the "ideal" (after all, it is a terminally ill body, There is also a life of decadence and trough, it is hard to say whether it is reckless or not)

If this is a movie that satirizes "abolitionists will do anything to achieve their goals", then I will give a 5-star praise. However, the whole film conveys the tone of "the death penalty should be abolished", completely ignoring logic and As a matter of fact, that's why people don't want it and don't want it.

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The Life of David Gale quotes

  • Constance Harraway: Stop that!

    David Gale: What?

    Constance Harraway: Active listening, I hate active listeners. I always feel like they're to busy *pretending* to be listening to hear what I'm saying.

    David Gale: I can listen and actively listen at the same time. I'm good at that.

  • David Gale: Fantasies have to be unrealistic because the moment, the second that you get what you seek, you don't, you can't want it anymore. In order to continue to exist, desire must have its objects perpetually absent. It's not the "it" that you want, it's the fantasy of "it." So, desire supports crazy fantasies. This is what Pascal means when he says that we are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness. Or why we say the hunt is sweeter than the kill. Or be careful what you wish for. Not because you'll get it, but because you're doomed not to want it once you do. So the lesson of Lacan is, living by your wants will never make you happy. What it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals and not to measure your life by what you've attained in terms of your desires but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice. Because in the end, the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives is by valuing the lives of others.