who care?!

Erling 2022-03-22 09:02:10

A well-structured film that is easy to understand. As mentioned in the introduction, three clues and three stories cross each other: the dialogue between reporters and politicians, students and teachers, and interspersed with ordinary war scenes.
The war scene of course serves two main dialogues, where the audience listens to lengthy professional dialogues (didactics) while trying to put themselves in the shoes of the two student soldiers' choices and their fate... The director is funny enough, when the audience confuses those dialogues When I was drowsy, I could always take the time to switch the camera to the battle scene, and let the roar of helicopters, gunshots, and explosions drive away my drowsiness, and so on and so forth... After dozens of minutes, the final result was revealed: two shots were fired. A student soldier died at the gunpoint of the Taliban. At this point, the conversation had long ceased. The female reporter was sitting in the car with a look of pain and helplessness, and white tombstones flashed outside the car. Breaking reports of military action... The
student asks: "Don't you want to know my options?" This is the final suspense of the film.
But who care?!

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Lions for Lambs quotes

  • Todd Hayes: Who never says anything even though he never stops talking.

  • Professor Stephen Malley: The decisions you make now, bud, can't be changed but with years and years of hard work to redo it... And in those years you become something different. Everybody does as the time passes. You get married, you get into debt... But you're never gonna be the same person you are right now. And promise and potential... It's very fickle, and it just might not be there anymore.

    Todd Hayes: Are you assuming I already made a decision? And also that I'll live to regret it?

    Professor Stephen Malley: All I'm saying is that you're an adult now... And the tough thing about adulthood is that it starts before you even know it starts, when you're already a dozen decisions into it. But what you need to know, Todd, no Lifeguard is watching anymore. You're on your own. You're your own man, and the decisions you make now are yours and yours alone from here until the end.