Dignity and Health

Constantin 2022-09-03 11:28:45

Everyone sees something different in a movie, and I see both.
The first half is nothing more than about dignity, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, while others are hell. Psychoanalysis says that people cannot escape relationships, relationships can soothe people's hearts, and relationships create hell for each other. This hell is dignity. Maybe I haven't learned yet, how to gain and maintain high self-esteem by myself without the approval of others. In the first half, Maggie gained dignity through boxing and was recognized by the world at the cost of her own health. A story can be just a metaphor. But in modern society, how many people are sacrificing their health for the sake of dignity? When you don't have health, I don't know how much dignity is worth. The hospital can be said to be the most dignified place, but also the most dignified place. When sick, high officials and commoners are treated the same. Except that your family background may allow you to get more thoughtful treatment and care from medical staff, there is really no difference in other aspects. They are all those organs and those lives.
For all kinds of efforts outside, if it is just for a nod, an appreciation, and an approval from others, and I carry my own life on my back, I think it is stupid. But I was brought up with such stupid values. So I got up and went to find another value that would nourish my heart. Self-esteem and health do not go against each other. People can be self-sufficient and healthy.

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  • Maggie Fitzgerald: I can't be like this, Frankie. Not after what I've done. I've seen the world. People chanted my name. Well, not my name, some damn name you gave me. They were chanting for me. I was in magazines. You think I ever dreamed that'd happen? I was born two pounds, one-and-a-half ounces. Daddy used to tell me I'd fight my way into this world, and I'd fight my way out. That's all I wanna do, Frankie. I just don't wanna fight you to do it. I got what I needed. I got it all. Don't let 'em keep taking it away from me. Don't let me lie here 'till I can't hear those people chanting no more.

  • Frankie Dunn: [Reads a script from a book in Gaelic]

    Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: What the hell kind of language is that?

    Frankie Dunn: What do you want?

    Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: I just thought you should know you got a fighter out there not talking to another manager.

    Frankie Dunn: Not talking to another manager?

    Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: And not just any manager. Mickey Mack.

    Frankie Dunn: You came in here to tell me Big Willie is not talking to Mickey Mack.

    Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Not a word. Neither one of him.

    Frankie Dunn: [Frustrated] I'm tryin' to read here.

    Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: Well, if you think that more important.