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Drive Driver [after slapping Blanche and holding her down]: Now, you just got a little boy’s father killed. And you almost got us killed. And now you’re lying to me. So how about this? From now on, every word out of your mouth is the truth. Or I’m going to hurt you. I certainly believed him. Driver...

If you choose to interact with thugs be prepared for them [eventually] to seep into the parts of your life reserved for those who are not thugs. But then her husband is in prison. And he is getting out in a week. This is one of those films where “atmosphere” is all pervasive. It’s brimming with the ...

Death “The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.” G.K. Chesterton And how comforting is that! “The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.” Courtney Love Tell that to Kurt? “Crap. It's all crap. Li...

A Few Good Men Dawson: We joined the Marines because we wanted to live our lives by a certain code, and we found it in the Corps. Now you’re asking us to sign a piece of paper that says we have no honor. You’re asking us to say we’re not Marines. If a court decides that what we did was wrong, then ...

The Self and Self-Knowledge Richard Baron inspects different ideas of the self. A book review of an anthology on the self and self-knowledge. Self-Knowledge Moving on to our knowledge of ourselves, there are several possibilities. One is that we work out our beliefs, desires and sensations by observ...

Nicolas de Chamfort When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that you know and they don't. Uh, tell me about it? Don't you know that we must always have a place where we never go but where we think we'd be happy if we did? Miners Mills... There i...

Yet another film about the United States military in which the focus is on something that has almost nothing whatsoever to do with its actual [primary] function in the world. Code Red? That is the crime here?! That’s like focusing on the break-in at the Watergate complex and completely ignoring the ...

How do I refute nihilism? from the Quora site. TheGrapeThief This [above] is where nihilists reveal how little they understand about philosophy apart from their own. In the nihilist’s mind, not only is someone who refuses to question their own beliefs foolish, but so is anyone who questions them and...

The Jazz Butcher
The Best Way
https://youtu.be/ZL2MTmQMN2o?si=6QZyr7JoNxz89b-L

The corporate lawyer will do anything and everything to bolster the bottom line of whatever particular company he or she represents. And if that means destroying the lives of others – or just reaming them inside out it – it can be rationalized easily enough: the law’s the law. This is the part liber...

This film transports us back to the dark ages for women enduring the trauma of an unwanted pregnancy. The age of the back room [or the back alley] abortions. In England. And not as an exchange of polemics [abstractions] either. This is how such things actually did unfold. On both sides of the track....

Monsieur Hire Alice: It’s nice to be watched. I enjoy it. But only because it’s you. I couldn’t with someone else. With you it’s different. I can see you’re sweet. Hire: How can you say that? You don’t know me. Alice [walking over to the bed]: Sit by me. We can talk more comfortably. Don’t you want...

Madness “ THIS IS MADNESS, ” TOM HISSED. "You said that already,” I whispered. “And yet, here we are, still doing it. So, if you don’t mind: This is madness.” Kevin Sands Cue the fish man? Here I mean. :wink: “A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, the...

Described as a misanthrope he is actually more than just that. The scene in the bowling alley for example. But he is definitely aberrant when engaging the opposite sex. He creates this fantasy in his head [re The Collector] and then fortuitously [voyeuristically] bumps into a beautiful incarnation a...

God “No matter what the cause, God is only as willing as you are.” Steve Maraboli Tell that to the Jews in Nazi Germany? In other words, it is never, ever God's fault? “I had a standing agreement with god. I'd agree to believe in him, barely, so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.” Richelle Mead...