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人生の意義を測る唯一の方法は他人の人生を価値あるものとすることっていう話。
観た事ない作品だと思っていたけど、観ている内に漠然と最後のオチだけ思い出し、昔に鑑賞済みだったんだろうな、と。
そのせいで、驚きはなかったけど、相変わらず善人にも悪人にも見えるケヴィン・スペイシーも良いし、ケイト・ウィンスレットは華やかだし、ローラ・リニーの演技も良かった。
あと、何気に病院でケヴィン・スペイシーにローラ・リニーが白血病だと伝える医者役の俳優も良かった。
David Gale: 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. 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.
