There is no god but money

Wyatt 2022-03-24 09:01:45

A rather tense film. Within 24 hours, from layoffs, to the discovery of shit, followed by layers of reports, urgent consultations, to dumping shit, and finally ending with sam burying the dog. All the way to suppress tension, no one can breathe. Sam buried his only emotional sustenance, and also buried the bottom line of being a human being.
In the face of interests, people are like ghosts and gods, morality is dead, and God is helpless. When disaster strikes, the important thing is not how fast you can run, the important thing is that you must run faster than others. I would rather be against the world than to teach the world to be against me. Cao Cao's words seem universal.
Selfish humanity is like a surging flood with the power to destroy everything, including the perpetrators themselves. Where is the bank? Sam's hesitation and inner struggle remind people that no matter how dark they are, there will always be more or less a little bit of moral light flashing. Although this vague little moral light eventually went out.
God is never the first to strike. When the disaster comes, destroying the sky and destroying the earth, God will take action slowly. If there is no law, the world will fully apply the law of the jungle. Without God, the world would be flooded. Selfishness and greed will sweep away all game participants.
Is there any hope for improvement? have. Making films is itself a form of reflection and defiance. But the people in the play said, "The ratio of winners and losers will never change." The meaning of this sentence is: at any time, in the eyes of a fixed proportion of people---there is no God except money.

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  • John Tuld: So you think we might have put a few people out of business today. That its all for naught. You've been doing that everyday for almost forty years Sam. And if this is all for naught then so is everything out there. Its just money; its made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat. It's not wrong. And it's certainly no different today than its ever been. 1637, 1797, 1819, 37, 57, 84, 1901, 07, 29, 1937, 1974, 1987-Jesus, didn't that fuck up me up good-92, 97, 2000 and whatever we want to call this. It's all just the same thing over and over; we can't help ourselves. And you and I can't control it, or stop it, or even slow it. Or even ever-so-slightly alter it. We just react. And we make a lot money if we get it right. And we get left by the side of the side of the road if we get it wrong. And there have always been and there always will be the same percentage of winners and losers. Happy foxes and sad sacks. Fat cats and starving dogs in this world. Yeah, there may be more of us today than there's ever been. But the percentages-they stay exactly the same.

  • Will Emerson: Jesus, Seth. Listen, if you really wanna do this with your life you have to believe you're necessary and you are. People wanna live like this in their cars and big fuckin' houses they can't even pay for, then you're necessary. The only reason that they all get to continue living like kings is cause we got our fingers on the scales in their favor. I take my hand off and then the whole world gets really fuckin' fair really fuckin' quickly and nobody actually wants that. They say they do but they don't. They want what we have to give them but they also wanna, you know, play innocent and pretend they have no idea where it came from. Well, thats more hypocrisy than I'm willing to swallow, so fuck em. Fuck normal people. You know, the funny thing is, tomorrow if all of this goes tits up they're gonna crucify us for being too reckless but if we're wrong, and everything gets back on track? Well then, the same people are gonna laugh till they piss their pants cause we're gonna all look like the biggest pussies God ever let through the door.

    Seth Bregman: Do you think we're gonna be wrong?

    Will Emerson: [long pause] No, they're all fucked.

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