Never rat on your friends

Omari 2022-04-22 07:01:03

I was very excited after watching this movie. I read the last paragraph of the generous statement over and over again. This line completely expresses my heart. Since elementary school, I have hated people who make small reports with classmates, and I hate those people even more. Teachers who use the cadres on duty or the three good students as bait to instigate students to make snitches. When I was in junior high school, I accidentally discovered that a classmate's notebook was densely remembering records of classmates talking in class, classmates fighting with classmates, etc. I was furious at the time, and immediately raised the notebook and shouted, " Come and see how he wrote down all our bad things and prepared to show them to the teacher", but the indifference of the classmates surprised me, and even the person whose name was written down behaved indifferently. The classmate who remembered the name retorted, "I can't help it, the teacher asked me to remember it." Since then I have become accustomed to such things and have lost the motivation to be angry. Fortunately, I have been disliked by teachers since I was a child, let alone a class cadre. As long as the parent-teacher meeting is over and I don't scold my father, I will be lucky. Therefore, I have never experienced such a dilemma, but I really have such a choice. Before I watched "Smell the Fragrance and Know a Woman", I really didn't have the confidence to say NO to the teacher. In that line, the thing that shocked me the most was the sentence, "In the war, some people's arms were twisted and their legs were blown off. Those are not as scary as ugly souls, and souls cannot have prosthetic limbs." I think this is what I do. Have been looking for and always wanted to say to those who have betrayed their classmates for over a decade. Since then, when I come to a crossroads in my life, I think I already know how to make my own choices. ———————————————————————————————————— The wonderful dialogue of the whole school public trial: Trask: Mr. Simms, you are a cover-up artist and you are a liar. Frank: But not a snitch! Trask: Excuse me? Frank: No, I don't think I will. Trask: Mr. Slade. Frank: This is such a crock of shit ! Trask: Please watch your language, Mr. Slade; you are in the Baird School, not a barracks.

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  • Sophie 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    The martyrs are in their old age and are full of heart

  • Kristofer 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    You will see a different PACINO.

Scent of a Woman quotes

  • [Headmaster Trask drives into the Baird School driveway in his brand-new Jaguar. He gets out, to hear a voice on a loudspeaker]

    Jimmy Jameson: [on loudspeaker, but unidentified] Mister Trask is our fearless leader.

    [students hear this and gather, looking on at Trask]

    Jimmy Jameson: A man of learning, a voracious reader. He can recite "The Iliad" in ancient Greek, while fishing for trout in a rippling creek.

    Trent Potter: [Trask grins slightly, trying to figure out where the voice is coming from] Endowed with wisdom, of judgement sound, nevertheless about him, the questions abound.

    [We now see the same three Baird guys who set up this prank the night before; Harry opens the valve to an oxygen tank connected to a large balloon on a lamppost as Trent passes the microphone to him]

    Harry Havemeyer: How does Mister Trask make such wonderful deals? Why did the trustees buy him Jaguar wheels? He wasn't conniving, he wasn't crass... he merely puckered his lips... and kissed their ass!

    [balloon spins around to reveal a cartoon bearing the words being spoken; the students laugh and mock Trask]

    Harry Havemeyer: [Trask pulls out his car keys and opens the Jaguar door, then jumps up to try to pop the balloon with the key. He misses on the first try. On the second try, he succeeds, and a flood of white paint splashes down onto him and all over the car. The students applaud loudly and shout obscenities at him as this catastrophe concludes with Trask kicking the car door closed and attempting to dry his face with handkerchief]

  • Lt. Col. Frank Slade: [Lt. Col. Frank Slade is speaking in defense of Charlie Simms at meeting at the Baird School] Now I have come to the cross-roads in my life. I always knew what the right path was. Without exception, I knew, but I never took it. You know why? It was too damn hard. Now here's Charlie. He's come to the cross-roads. He has chosen a path. It's the right path. It's a path made of principle that leads to character. Let him continue on his journey.