What is the difference between morality and ethics?

Garett 2021-12-09 08:01:33

Jim is a humanities and history teacher. In class, he asked students a question: What is the difference between morality and ethics?

He also asked his colleague Dave the same question. Dave messed with Tracy, who is a top student (and political ideal), and was forced to resign, then divorced, and finally went to the supermarket to check in.

The core of this play is the campus student union election. Jim doesn't like this student Tracy, she is too good and too ambitious, and she also made his colleague Dave lose his job.

In the end, Tracy won the election, one vote difference, but Jim secretly threw Tracy's two ballots into the trash can. In this way, PAUL won. The two classmates who helped count the votes at the beginning gave Tracy a gesture to watch the vote count secretly. It means you won. Tracy was elated. JIM also saw Tracy outside the door. That face made him hate. So JIM Started to decide to cheat and prevent Tracy from being elected.

People are not as good as the sky, but the uncle who cleans up the trash found these two votes (foreshadowing, at the beginning of the movie, JIM littered and threw the mushy trash out of the trash can, causing unsatisfied uncle), and at the same time refused to accept the plan. The students who voted, and of course Tracy and his mother, found the principal's office.

The principal said to JIM: You submit your resignation, and I accept your resignation.

Finally, JIM left Omaha and went to New York to work as a museum commentator. He also happened to meet Tracy once. JIM went to Washington for a meeting. He saw Tracy and Washington executives talking and laughing together, and then they got into the extended luxury car together, JIM Very angry, he smashed Coca-Cola at the luxury car, and the luxury car came to a halt, and JIM ran away in fright.

The irony and black humor of this film is of course needless to say. The director is just a narrative and has no special point of view, but it can trigger some thoughts:

1. DAVE and Tracy got together. At first, DAVE was more active. Maybe, Tracy just borrowed This is the uppermost position. But when Dave is crying like a child in the principal's office, does it mean that Dave is just the naivety of the brain? He is just a bargaining chip for Tracy to get a good resume and apply for a good university.

2. The question of voting. Those two students who helped count the votes were on Tracy's side. After the statistics were over, they secretly gestured to Tracy to report the results of the election. Was it completely fair before then? Will there be cheating too?

3. JIM hates Tracy, partly because his colleague DAVE was "injured" by Tracy and wanted to retaliate, and partly because ordinary people like JIM hate and jealous for aggressive people? The film speaks of JIM: In fact, you don't have to stand on other people's bodies. Tracy is ambitious and original sin, she actually tore off the poster.

Perhaps, this film reflects ordinary people's views on politics, and the director also blackened and satirized Tracy with this, but is it not the same irony for JIM?

What is the difference between morality and ethics? Doesn't JIM want to fuck Dave's wife too?

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Extended Reading
  • Alfreda 2022-04-20 09:01:42

    Kind of dark humor. I like the monologues of each character, and the few shots on Reese's face are too effective, although I can't bear to choose the ugliest moment... But she does such a good job. A utilitarian little girl who will do anything to achieve her goals is just right~

  • Godfrey 2022-04-23 07:02:10

    Four and a half stars! ! Sharp point of view, ironic ending, I didn't give five stars because none of the characters I liked except tammy! ! Tammy is the girl in freaks and geeks who blows a tuba, she looks so cute, I like it

Election quotes

  • Tracy Flick: [narrating] When I think back on my relationship with Mr. Novotny, what I miss most is our talks.

  • Jim McAllister: [narrating] You might ask if I ever saw Tracy Flick again. Well, I did, just once. I was down in Washington for a museum educators conference, and I stayed an extra day to do some sightseeing. After an inspiring morning on the Mall, I was on my way to the Holocaust Museum, when...

    [across the street he spots Tracy chatting with a congressman, who she seems to be working for. As she gets into a stretch limousine with him, it freeze-frames on her with a smug expression on her face]

    Jim McAllister: I'll never know if she saw me. Probably not. But in that moment, all the bad memories, all the things I'd ever wanted to say to her, it all came flooding back. My first impulse was to run over there, pound on her window and demand that she admit she tore down those posters, and lied and cheated her way into winning that election. But instead, I just stood there. And I suddenly realised I wasn't angry at her anymore, I just felt sorry for her. I mean, when I think about my new life and all the exciting things I'm doing, and then I think about what her life must be like... Probably still getting up at 5 in the morning to pursue her pathetic little dreams. It just makes me sad. I mean, where is she really trying to get to anyway? And what is she doing in that limo? Who the fuck does she think she is?

    [he throws his drink at the limo, it splatters on the rear window. The limo screeches to a halt and a man gets out and shouts at him as he runs away]