Rope

Leatha 2022-03-23 09:01:39

Pseudo-mirror/Class about murder privilege says: —Murder should be an art. As such, the privilege of committing it should be reserved for those few who are really superior individuals. And the victims-inferior beings whose lives are unimportant anyway . —May I ask who is to decide if a human being is inferior, and therefore a suitable victim for murder?

—The privileged few who commit it.

—And just who might they be?

—The few are those men of such intellectual and cultural superiority that they're above the traditional moral concepts. Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

—So you agree with Nietzsche and his theory of the superman.

—Yes, I do.

—So did Hitler. There must have been something deep inside you from the very start that let you do this thing, but there's always been something deep inside me that would never let me do it, and would never let me be a party to it now. We are each of us a separate human being, with the right to live and work and think as individuals, but with an obligation to the society we live in. By what right do you dare say that there's a superior few to which you belong? By what right did you dare decide that boy in there was inferior and therefore could be killed? Did you think you were God, Brandon? PS: Remember the most disgusting character in the history of personal viewing: Brandon Shaw.

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Rope quotes

  • Brandon: What are you doing?

    Rupert Cadell: It's not what I'm going to do, Brandon. It's what society is going to do. I don't know what that will be, but I can guess, and I can help. You're going to die, Brandon. Both of you. You are going to die.

    [opens a window and fires three shots]

  • Brandon: But why should I want to come back?

    Phillip: Yes, why?

    Brandon: For the pleasure of our company, or another drink?

    Rupert Cadell: That's a very good idea. May I have one for the road?