The Life of David Gale - living for ideals

Allen 2022-04-20 09:01:43

When I finally found a video to prove that Constance committed suicide rather than homicide, I felt that the title of the film was obviously wrong and should be called The Life of Constance.
But in the end, I realized that the title of the film is not wrong, DAVID GALE, a person who lives in a fierce confrontation between ideals and reality, a person who struggles between the two roles of an ordinary person with a sense of social responsibility and his father. Even if he died for the cause in his heart, he never forgot to let his son understand what his death meant.

The front of the film has always been warm. Although he tried to catch the eye, he didn't have a good grasp of the "degree". Fortunately, with the sudden appearance of the videotape, he pulled his eye back properly, waiting for the reversal of the plot.

I'm not very fond of Kevin Spacey, but his blurred eyes do have a special attraction to people, just like David Gale played by him. Kate Winslet's last two crying scenes really showed her increasingly mature acting skills. A reporter who was looking for the truth had a hard time accepting the truth but was shocked by her firm belief in the truth. The reaction was vividly displayed.

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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.