Actually it has always existed

Emmitt 2021-12-30 17:17:10

The whole film seems to have been unfolding around black and white. In the end, when the problem lies with the mayor who wanders between black and white, I didn't realize that what the film wanted to say was actually gray.
Gray is a color that is easily overlooked, but it really exists in all levels of society. Thinking back now, don't most of our movies also show the gray that exists in different parts of life. The newborn calf, the deputy mayor, and those of us who have just graduated from school, all of us have only black and white eyes, only good people and bad people, classify people in this world, classify ourselves, but always fail, always have some People, you can't tell what's bad, but you just can't be classified as a good person. Now I finally understand that even if it is not recognized, it still exists. Not in the form of rules, or habit, or in any written or unwritten form, but it exists in this way and affects you and me in society.
Gray is a necessity. Humans are still very ignorant. You can't ask for billions of years to open up the world, we will understand everything at once, we know everything, we will deal with everything, and we have established rules for everything. The meaning of gray is that you still have room for improvement, there are still holes to drill, and there are places where the sun is not fully shining.
For young people, the first thing is to see gray and recognize gray. This is not easy. In fact, we must be good at walking in gray. Because it really exists, and it does not depend on the will of the individual. Accept it. This is a kind of self-protection. Again, whether to turn gray into white, or let it continue to gray, or the last choice is to turn gray into black, this is related to personal values ​​and ambitions.

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  • Camryn 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    The ending is too ideal, the soundtrack... It seems a bit like an old Hong Kong gangster film. Old and young handsome guys are all handsome, um, three and a half stars

  • Mina 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    The good actor played by Pacino is too ugly, but also has a melon face and a cherry mouth without that aura, which is always weaker than the mayor does not like

City Hall quotes

  • Mayor John Pappas: Enough about me, enough about me. What are you going to do tonight, after I'm gone?

    Kevin Calhoun: Me?

    Mayor John Pappas: Yeah.

    Kevin Calhoun: I don't know, I hadn't thought about it.

    Mayor John Pappas: Well, you're going to get yourself a good meal. You're going to pass up that double cheeseburger from Roy Rogers, wherever it is you go; you're going go to Dominic's, and you're going to get takeout. On me. Get a decent meal there. But before you go to Dominic's, I want you to go to Macy's and get a chair. With legs, and arms. That apartment of yours looks like something that belongs in a homeless file. Oh, then it's off to Crate and Barrel for a knife, a fork, a spoon... oh, and a glass, while you're at it.

    Kevin Calhoun: Then I'll have to get a dishwasher.

    Mayor John Pappas: You don't have to wash them, just throw 'em out after you finish eating. It's on me. Get a life!

    Kevin Calhoun: I've got yours; it's quite enough.

  • [Kevin suggests distancing themselves from a man in trouble]

    Mayor John Pappas: "Distance"! Distance is something you do to your enemies. It's a thing of the nineties, to make friends extinct. Distance... is the absence of menschkeit!

    Kevin Calhoun: Translate that for me.

    Mayor John Pappas: You don't know what menschkeit means?

    Kevin Calhoun: No, I don't.

    Mayor John Pappas: Menschkeit, you know... something between men... it's about honor, and character... untranslatable. That's why it's Yiddish.

    Kevin Calhoun: I didn't know you'd taken up the language.

    Mayor John Pappas: Abe laid it on me.