The Birth of Tragedy - Mad City

Kelvin 2022-02-03 08:09:21


Some things, after being forgotten by most people, are occasionally brought up again. At this time, people will sigh: This is not the case, what happened at that time? If you go back to the situation at that time, the parties and bystanders can fully describe their motives, thinking processes, and judgments at that time. It sounds like everyone's statements are reasonable and reasonable. There is no evil person. Acting on your own terms, perhaps with a little bit of selfishness, however, things can turn out to be very different from everyone's expectations.

stupid. Forrest Gump's mother said: stupid is stupid behavior. This is true. In the face of stupid people, we can sympathize, love, and despise, but there is nothing we can do. Most of the time they are cute, sometimes pitiful, but when they are hateful, they are extremely hateful. This hate may come from our hopeless sympathy and fragile self-esteem. Watching them go wrong step by step, being bullied, can't bear it; but when trying to help them, it is inevitable that they cannot be understood or even misunderstood. Stupid people constitute the original source of much of the comedy or tragedy in this world.

careerist. Ambitioners are often not liked by others. Some of their inner desires are so strong that they can ignore morality and morality, and they are desperate to realize their own desires, even if they hurt others. Ambitioners are the directors of this world, directing all things to develop in a good or bad direction. They fill the public's audiovisuals, concoct or guide public opinions, and blind the public's eyes. Let the majority of the crowd be very excited to think that they have participated in the expression as the master while being constantly toyed with. Such as elections around the world, such as news in any country. However, careerists are absolutely indispensable. They are very small in number but very active. Millions of years ago, while squinting and basking in the sun, an ambitious monkey full of bananas and leaves caught a glimpse of pigs and sheep roaming beside him, and muttered: Sooner or later, Lao Tzu will lock you all up and eat. Maybe this is the power source of evolution, which finally gave us the life we ​​have now, putting pigs in pigsties, sheep in sheepfolds, and then spending money that would never be earned in a lifetime, buying in the most crowded places A reinforced concrete cage to lock yourself in.

The vast number of ordinary people, like you and me, of all kinds, but not very different, are the main body of the world and the silent majority. In fact, most of them are not really silent, they are just tempted and led to repeat some concocted discourses and viewpoints. They are the source of the power that keeps everything going, they are the public opinion. Everyone is kind, but the force that gathers together is terrifying. No matter what, as long as it is paid attention to by these broad masses of people, it will be over.

Once things start, they don't end so easily, and they are no longer controlled by people's wishes. With the knowledge of the outside world, more people who have nothing to do with themselves began to indulge their right to speak, and said those seemingly fair and powerful views that had nothing to do with themselves. These so-called views of the public merged into a kind of violence , pushing things into an even more uncontrollable situation. And struggling in the meantime, innocent and helpless, only the parties themselves. The tragedy of the city begins with the strong desire in people's hearts and inappropriate methods, and is driven by the violence of public opinion guided by careerists. It ends with the tragic end of the parties involved, leaving a story that I don't know how to bring up.

Sam is a stupid, clueless, simple-minded man who works as a security guard at a museum. However, in order to save expenses, he was laid off, and the family's life lost support. Sam came to the museum with a gun and some dynamite, and he just wanted to talk, get his job back, or even take a pay cut. He thought that with the gun, the arrogant female curator who never listened to him could listen to him carefully. Sam has always been a stupid and annoying person, without opinion, easily irritated, but he is not a villain himself. However, the misfired shot hit another security guard, Sam's friend, Cliff.

Max is an ambitious TV reporter who was once a journalist before being transferred from this small town to New York after being sent down to get the big news. When the incident happened, he happened to come to the museum for an interview, in the men's bathroom. Max immediately contacted the TV station to broadcast the hostage incident live. In the museum, there are Sam, Max, the curator, a teacher and a group of children.

The police surrounded the museum. Sam obviously didn't know how to deal with the situation. Max kept giving Sam advice. His intention was not to help Sam. The location, the TV station naturally cooperated very well and launched an exclusive live broadcast. The stupid Sam obeyed, negotiated with the police according to Max's instructions, accepted Max's interviews, and followed Max's arranged lines to win the sympathy of public opinion. Everything seems to be going well. Max's interview has attracted the attention of people all over the country. He secretly feels that winning back the position of anchor is not far away. Sam's clumsy and honest confession has also attracted sympathy from many people. It was complicated by the intervention of another anchor, Max's competitor. Seeing stinky meat, all the flies will come to fight for a piece of the pie. To fight against Max, he will appear as the spokesperson of the law and justice, and win the public opinion to his side. At this point, the situation has changed, and it has become a struggle between two reporters competing for the anchor, to win the support of public opinion for their own capital, no one really cares about the children who are hostages and who just want to get their jobs back and have already Regretful Sam.

In the tug-of-war between the two of them to gain public opinion, facing enormous pressure and the possibility of prison, Sam was scratching his head and scratching his head. His mind was obviously unable to withstand such a rapid change, and his stupid brain couldn't think of a way to deal with it. , became manic, and at this time, the two reporters were engaged in business negotiations. They both thought that they could control the situation, control the outcome, and judge whether Sam was guilty or not, as if they regarded themselves as gods. Finally, when Max realized that the situation was out of control and persuaded Sam to surrender, Sam, who felt teased, showed the crushing stubbornness of a fool and refused Max's prompt, although it was Max who really wanted to help with some guilt Sam has it. In front of the cunning news interface, Sam was played around in circles and could no longer say those inflammatory words that won him widespread sympathy, and public opinion continued to decline.

The wounded Cliff finally dies, Sam collapses, he frees all the hostages and detonates a bomb to kill himself. Max, who walked out alone, has gone through all this, facing the crazy reporters, the crazy crowd, all these people with ulterior motives who don't care about themselves, none of them really care about the parties, the hostages, and just want to achieve themselves through this. interests or as a boring pastime, including himself just now. Facing this crazy city and the world, he shouted: We killed him.

Dustin. Hoffman and John. Yield Tower, the rivalry of the two acting schools, is convincing.

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  • Josue 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    for john﹠the theme of media

  • Bartholome 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    A process in which a good citizen is forced into a volcano by a snowballed reporter who is eager to hype. The media's role in guiding and brainwashing ignorant people is much stronger than any poisonous system. But for Jingjian, when will the propaganda department of Zhan Wuzhe make changes and get rid of the current situation of being fooled by the media and detained by the stigma of suppressing speech.

Mad City quotes

  • [Sam finally decide's to let the hostages go]

    Kevin Hollander: [on megaphone] Sam Baily! You have 5 minutes to let the hostages go!

    Sam Baily: Damn. I wanted it to be my idea.

  • Sam: Don't negotiate my emotions!