I want to say everything, but I can't say anything

Lamar 2022-03-23 09:02:24

Another not-so-powerful movie, albeit with a strong cast.
The story is divided into three lines, a battlefield, an interview and a heart-to-heart talk. The professor worries about a student's future and hopes to change his mind and life through the example of two students he has taught. At this time, the two people standing on the edge of life and death on the battlefield were the students of the professor, and the content of the interview was the beginning of this small battle.
The three stories are interspersed with each other, and I wanted to use a special structure to tell the story, but it didn't work well. The whole article is three scenes alternately switched, and it becomes boring after two times. And the connection between the scenes is not smooth, you can only rely on a lot of dialogue to let you understand the connection of the stories that happened in the three scenes. As you can guess the process of switching, the conversation here comes to an end, and it must go to the next one.
At the same time, there are too many political opinions that this film wants to express. It criticizes all kinds of social and political issues, and in the end, what I want to express the most is not clear, and the sacrifice of the two soldiers is not at all. Shock me...

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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.