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Villa sports car golf. . .
May 2022-03-23 09:02:37
Is this film a questioning of the Wall Street-style modern economic model? Or a questioning of American living and consumption patterns? Maybe there are. The movie is only realistic, and it doesn't seem to be very deep. Although I also doubt the economic model that relies on playing some digital games without creating any real value, this movie is more just for me to understand. Consider the life of an American of a similar age. The annual salary is 100,000 yuan, which is enough for Ben Affleck to take out a loan to buy a 2-storey villa worth nearly one million. He drives a Porsche sports car to work, and goes to play golf after get off work. He can afford two children. A wife who does not work drives a Volvo V70. . People of my age who earn an annual salary of 10 to W in Shenzhen need a loan to buy a 50-square-meter apartment of nearly one million, which means that even a fast food has to consider whether to eat two meat or one meat, golf, two children , Porsche and Volvo, plus a wife who doesn't work? It's not a real-life movie, it's a science-fiction movie. It seems that it is also plundering, and some classes are more ruthless than the capitalists.
Extended Reading
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Gene McClary: We used to make something here. Back before we got lost in the paperwork. At one time, we had a frigate, right here, back there. Guided missile cruiser. Phil started out here, in hull assembly.
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Gene McClary: He was a skinny little bastard. Fearless. He'd hang upside down all day long in a bosun's chair, 70 feet off the shop floor welding an inside seam. I mean, Jesus. Two thousand men a shift, three shifts a day. Six thousand men earned an honest wage in that room. Feb their kids, bought homes. Made enough to send their kids to college. Buy a second car. Building something they could see. Not just figures on a balance sheet, but a ship. They could see, smell, touch. Those men knew their worth, knew who they were. One day, you're making fifty dollars, the next day, 5,000. And then, one day, five million. Start out with a crazy plan. Take insane risks. Barely make enough money to feed your family. Not a chance in hell you're going to succeed. And then, all of a sudden, you've got all these things. You get terrified of losing them. Stock options, corporate jets, vacation homes in the Bahamas. You know. Truth is, I like 500-dollar lunches and 5,000-dollar hotel suites. Now, everything I spent 30 years trying to build for myself and everybody else is... gone.
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Bobby Walker: I'm sorry, Maggie.
Maggie: For what?
Bobby Walker: For everything. For letting you down.
Maggie: You haven't let me down.
Bobby Walker: Yeah, I did.
Maggie: You were never here before. And now you are.