The torn America makes people despair again and again

Bo 2022-04-23 07:01:01

Now rewatching the film again, combined with what is happening in the United States at the moment, makes people sigh. Racism is the most primitive and stubborn narrow-mindedness of human beings. It often hovers in human society like a ghost. Whenever the economy and society declines, it will ravage the crowd like a plague. When social contradictions become increasingly acute, people will transfer the contradictions to a certain ethnic group that opposes them, let anger go to their heads, and even kill each other in serious cases.

In fact, the essence of the problem is not in other ethnic groups or social injustice, but in our own hearts. We should ask ourselves: Have I ever tried to make my life better? Instead of passing the buck to a pre-set imaginary enemy. As Danny said in his report: Hate is a burden, life is short, don't get angry, it's not worth it at all, let's see the nature of human beings in a better light.

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  • [On Derek's change in prison]

    Danny Vinyard: I'm sorry, Derek. I'm sorry that happened to you.

    Derek Vinyard: I'm not. I'm lucky. I feel lucky because it's wrong, Danny. It's wrong and it was eating me up, it was going to kill me. And I kept asking myself all the time, how did I buy into this shit? It was because I was pissed off, and nothing I ever did ever took that feeling away. I killed two guys, Danny, I killed them. And it didn't make me feel any different. It just got me more lost and I'm tired of being pissed off, Danny. I'm just tired of it.

  • Danny Vinyard: [referring to Dr. Sweeney] He's one of those proud to be nigger people, I hate those guys.

    Cameron: Now wait a minute Danny, he's not proud. No, he's a manipulative, self-righteous Uncle Tom who's trying to make you feel guilty about writing about Adolf Hitler. Yeah, when some nigger or some spick writes about Martin Luther King or fucking Caesar commie Chavez, he gets a pat on the head. You can see the hypocrisy in that, can't you?