Everyone is not an island

Wendy 2022-03-25 09:01:10

This film seems to be discussing the educational problems of American society, but in fact, apart from describing the students and their parents as demons, it does not provide any substantive answers. Suicide, Henry left to continue his substitute career, it can be said that there is little light in sight. Therefore, it is better to simply view it as a redemption experiment. The focus of the camera is not only on the unrepentant students, but also on the bullied teachers in the school, including Henry himself, who is immersed in the shadow of childhood, just as he In those film-style flashbacks and monologues, everyone has their own pain, and at the heart of this film's pain are souls who are ignored and long for attention. However, aside from the depressing and depressing atmosphere created by the director's editing and photography, it is still inaccurate to say that the movie is black in the end. Although Henry's efforts at school ended in failure, his rescue of the young prostitute Erica was at least a success. The students couldn't be redeemed because Henry himself was in the quagmire, and Erica was saved because they were ill and could keep each other warm.

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  • Henry Barthes: How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you?

    Henry Barthes: Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false.

    Henry Barthes: Examples of this in everyday life: "Oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I need to be thin, famous, fashionable." Our young men today are being told that women are whores, bitches, things to be screwed, beaten, shit on, and shamed. This is a marketing holocaust. Twenty-four hours a day for the rest of our lives, the powers that be are hard at work dumbing us to death.

    Henry Barthes: So to defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own belief systems. We all need skills to defend, to preserve our own minds.

  • Henry Barthes: [agitated at assisted living nurse] Let me be very clear here, you stop neglecting his needs, or I will start fucking with yours! I will have you fired! Then it's going to be your family! Your children are gonna be at risk! You got it?