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Part of the truth doesn't mean it's the truth
Rosario 2022-04-19 09:01:58
What people call the truth may just be the side that is deliberately presented to you. The film seems a bit messy, but when you see the end, you can't help but feel a little bit stuck. Students who are willing to do anything for you, see it for the first time, and feel that Berlin is apologetic for deliberately wronging the professor. When they see this signature at the end, they suddenly realize that anything, of course, includes promoting his ideas. And Dusty, at first, I couldn't figure out why he didn't stop Bessie. If he wanted to wake up with blood, why would he bring the video to Bessie. As for the bad stalking, it was even more ridiculous. At the end of the line, I realized that Dusty did it on purpose. He deliberately exposed it to Bessie and asked her to check. By the way, Bessie's car broke down and Dusty must have something to do with it. In the film, it seems that the incompetent lawyer, the dog-blooded stalker, the gentle-looking professor, the wise and deadly terrifying woman with blood cancer, everything we see is what the organization allows us to see. How sad that it is necessary to present the facts to Bessie, perhaps out of respect for her journalist status and her persistence and bravery for the truth. Or maybe it's for Bessie's key to freedom
Extended Reading
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Constance Harraway: Stop that!
David Gale: What?
Constance Harraway: Active listening, I hate active listeners. I always feel like they're to busy *pretending* to be listening to hear what I'm saying.
David Gale: I can listen and actively listen at the same time. I'm good at that.
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David Gale: Fantasies have to be unrealistic because the moment, the second that you get what you seek, you don't, you can't want it anymore. In order to continue to exist, desire must have its objects perpetually absent. It's not the "it" that you want, it's the fantasy of "it." So, desire supports crazy fantasies. This is what Pascal means when he says that we are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness. Or why we say the hunt is sweeter than the kill. Or be careful what you wish for. Not because you'll get it, but because you're doomed not to want it once you do. So the lesson of Lacan is, living by your wants will never make you happy. What it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals and not to measure your life by what you've attained in terms of your desires but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice. Because in the end, the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives is by valuing the lives of others.