that long shot

Miles 2022-04-19 09:01:58


David Gore was talking about Socrates on the street after drinking too much. It was a long shot of more than a minute. Roughly counted, there were nearly 100 extras, some of which needed to interact with the "alcoholic", which was not difficult. small.

I also heard it for the first time - Socrates was ugly, Plato was fat, Aristotle was of poor taste.

The way he commented on the old man was that he was always excited after drinking too much, just like he was at the party before his reputation was ruined; it also showed that he was really a profound intellectual who knew some cold surroundings that ordinary people didn't know.

The quality of the lines in this monologue is very good, the camera and scheduling are naturally outrageous, and Kevinspacey's acting skills are even more superb.

I love watching David compete with the thirty bucks, roaring at a plump couple: thirty bucks!!! - the other party's reaction is also very appropriate, the woman suddenly hides to the side with a look of panic, and squeezes the male partner out of the painting .
He seemed even more excited than when he was teaching at the university, waving his arms for emphasis, walking like dancing steps, not forgetting the rigor of being a lecturer in the past, correcting his singular and plural.
But in the end, he was still leaning on the street lamp in confusion, sighing inexplicably - this doesn't make sense at all.

Socrates proposed to the jury a 30-silver fine instead of the death penalty, and the judges were furious, and more people voted to sentence him to death than to vote him guilty.

Even those who thought he was innocent thought he deserved to die. Why is this happening.

Although the purpose of justice is to pursue justice, its means are still inseparable from human effort. The judges of the jury are also human, and it is difficult to guarantee absolute rationality if they are human, and it is impossible for human beings to be objective and fair and live up to the truth. Isn't there a saying that fact and truth are often the opposite?

The death penalty is the final sentence of a life. However, it was the judiciary who made this judgment, and it was also the people who made mistakes in the name of judiciary.
Whether or not to abolish the death penalty is a choice that would rather be punished or not.

Don't want a life to be artificially put into an irreversible situation, if there is no example of a wrong so far, then we will make one - David Gore, female colleagues, cowboy hats sacrificed for this ideal .

Why is there such a long shot, probably to imply David's ending. Like Socrates, he chose to be a martyr even though "it doesn't make sense at all."

Telling a story with a countdown of four days, but telling the whole life of a person whose life is longer than four days. interesting.

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The Life of David Gale quotes

  • 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.

  • 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.