NOTES on The life of David Gale

[at the University of Austin.]

David:
Come on. Think.
I want you to reach back into those minds and tell me, tell us all...
What is it that you fantasize about?
World peace?I thought so.
Do you fantasize about international fame?
Do you fantasize about winning a Pulitzer Prize?

Or a Nobel Peace Prize?
An MTV Music Award?
Do you fantasize about meeting some genius hunk, ostensibly bad but secretly simmering with noble passion and willing to sleep on the wet spot?

a student:
 I'll take two! I'll take two!
 What was that?

David:
Kimberly will take two.
You get Lacan's point.
Fantasies have to be unrealistic，
because the moment， the second，
that you get what you seek.
you don't，you can't want it anymore.

In order to continue to exist desire must have its objects perpetually absent.
It's not the "it" that you want.
It's the fantasy of"it."
So, desire supports crazy fantasies.

This is what Pascal means when he says that we are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness.
It came today.
Or why we say，the hunt is sweeter than the kill.
Or be careful what you wish for, not because you'll get it，but because you're doomed not to want it once you do.

So the lesson of Lacan is, living by your wants will never make you happy.
What it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals and not to measure your life by what you've attained in terms of your desires，but those small moments of integrity, compassion，rationality, even self-sacrifice.
Because in the end, the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives is by valuing the lives of others.


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结尾让我们知道
全部都是设计好的
并且
他把采访酬劳寄给了妻子
当然也包括儿子
还有明信片--说明没有强奸
律师和他们也是一伙的

为什么要牵扯那个女记者出来呢
让她从怀疑到相信再到全面否定
还原真相救人生命的希望
再到了解自杀背后故事的痛苦

没她，自然没有人将故事道出
从电影情节叙述的角度
需要她

只是，电影里的故事本身而言
david为什么要找她呢


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有人给了好听的名字 殉道者
对象指向他们的idea or ideal
献身 狂热的理性 ？

我觉得
本质上和在某时某地某些人砍下自己的小指头
没有本质的区别
用极端的方式 去唤起公众的关注

只是，这里似乎更有种染着鲜血的浪漫的感觉

只是，于我而言，血色的冲击给我刺激更大

也许我是俗人，所以不能够去崇拜他们
只能怀着 敬畏
也不能真正的理解，我是指真正的感同身受的理解

也许我怀着点俗气的想法
有更多的方法更好的方法更平和的方法
去坚守自己的信仰 去追寻更好的世界

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我们是否有能够以维护他人权益或社会利益的命运
去决定别人生命的终结
？

可不可能出错是一回事

对生命的开始与结束又是另一码事了

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这是部好电影