Some thoughts on the lion entering the sheep's mouth

Marianna 2022-03-25 09:01:11

Finally finished watching the long-delayed "Lion in the Sheep's Mouth". I heard that the reviews were average, so I went to make up for it with a playful mood to see Garfield and Tom. I didn't expect that the plot could actually be watched. In fact, this is a mouth cannon movie. Two of the three main scenes are in dialogue, politicians and reporters, professors and students, and the rest are two American soldiers who are used as cannon fodder to die.

I personally think that although the film is relatively small in nature, some of the lines are still quite incisive. The tit-for-tat conversation between politicians and journalists is more like a game. A person who wants to climb up with a single heart, is not willing to become a political propaganda prop; a professor and a student are a process of persuading each other, too smart children see through the rules of the game in this world and lose their striving and enterprising spirit , the division commander hopes to bring him back on the right path to make a difference and regain his sense of mission; and the two American soldiers? They are immigrants and blacks with embarrassed status and eager to integrate into American society, so they went to join the army. To a politician, they are cannon fodder and a stepping stone to his success; to a professor, they are his students, although they participated in this A fearless battle, but also made his own efforts to win his own bright future.

Living in such a hypocritical and lie-filled world, how should we deal with ourselves?

The professor said:

"Rome is burning
but the problem isn't the people who started it,
they're hopeless, it
's our problem, all of us, the people
who don't do anything to waste their time, the people
who want to take the chance, and
I'll tell you there's a lot of them right now. Fighting day after day to make things better"

As long as you live in this world, no one can get away with it.

At the end of the movie, the soldiers in Afghanistan died in vain because of their superior intelligence; the reporter, who was disgusted by the hypocrisy of the politicians, saw the rows of tombstones through the glass window of the taxi on the way back. Success is ten thousand bones withered” is the truth whenever and wherever; and the students at this time should have a direction in their hearts as to which way they should take in the future.

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Extended Reading

Lions for Lambs quotes

  • Todd Hayes: Who never says anything even though he never stops talking.

  • Professor Stephen Malley: The decisions you make now, bud, can't be changed but with years and years of hard work to redo it... And in those years you become something different. Everybody does as the time passes. You get married, you get into debt... But you're never gonna be the same person you are right now. And promise and potential... It's very fickle, and it just might not be there anymore.

    Todd Hayes: Are you assuming I already made a decision? And also that I'll live to regret it?

    Professor Stephen Malley: All I'm saying is that you're an adult now... And the tough thing about adulthood is that it starts before you even know it starts, when you're already a dozen decisions into it. But what you need to know, Todd, no Lifeguard is watching anymore. You're on your own. You're your own man, and the decisions you make now are yours and yours alone from here until the end.