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Great moral dilemmas in TV/film + What would you have done?
Posted on 1/21/15 at 11:43 pm
Posted on 1/21/15 at 11:43 pm
Spoilers below!
Gone Baby Gone
Easily the toughest moral question any film has ever presented to me. Do you return the child to their shitty parent, or let them stay in the better family that sort of kidnapped them and let the mother go on thinking that their child is dead?
I would have turned in Freeman's character. Amy Ryan played a bad mother, but not an evil one or total lost cause.
The Wire
McNulty tampering with crime scenes (turning natural deaths into murders) to put more pressure on a legit evil murderer. I would have supported him in this case, but it's a very slippery slope. It certainly couldn't be a widespread practice since it will eventually lead to innocents getting framed by police, but Marlo needed to be in prison.
How would you side? Any other good ones?
Gone Baby Gone
Easily the toughest moral question any film has ever presented to me. Do you return the child to their shitty parent, or let them stay in the better family that sort of kidnapped them and let the mother go on thinking that their child is dead?
I would have turned in Freeman's character. Amy Ryan played a bad mother, but not an evil one or total lost cause.
The Wire
McNulty tampering with crime scenes (turning natural deaths into murders) to put more pressure on a legit evil murderer. I would have supported him in this case, but it's a very slippery slope. It certainly couldn't be a widespread practice since it will eventually lead to innocents getting framed by police, but Marlo needed to be in prison.
How would you side? Any other good ones?
This post was edited on 1/21/15 at 11:44 pm
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Posted on 1/21/15 at 11:51 pm to THRILLHO
Another:
Breaking Bad
This one had a quite a few, but my favorite was Walt watching Jesse's hot arse girlfriend overdose. Pretend that you're you and not a soon to be ruthless drug kingpin. Would you save the girl knowing that, to stay out of prison, you will have to give up all material wealth to her? Or do you do nothing to save a kind of bad person, consumed by addiction, and protect yourself?
I let her die.
Breaking Bad
This one had a quite a few, but my favorite was Walt watching Jesse's hot arse girlfriend overdose. Pretend that you're you and not a soon to be ruthless drug kingpin. Would you save the girl knowing that, to stay out of prison, you will have to give up all material wealth to her? Or do you do nothing to save a kind of bad person, consumed by addiction, and protect yourself?
I let her die.
Posted on 1/22/15 at 12:01 am to THRILLHO
The Godfather II
What do you do with Fredo?
Eta:
I exile him to Tampa or Sicily
What do you do with Fredo?
Eta:
I exile him to Tampa or Sicily
This post was edited on 1/22/15 at 12:08 am
Posted on 1/22/15 at 8:01 am to THRILLHO
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I would have turned in Freeman's character. Amy Ryan played a bad mother, but not an evil one or total lost cause.
Tough call. I think, based on that last scene where Kenzie/Affleck agrees to sit with the child while Amy Ryan goes out to party was pretty telling. But still, I don't know.
Posted on 1/22/15 at 8:29 am to THRILLHO
I hate hate movies where people milk mistaken identities.
Oh and secrets that arent a big deal blow up until the big reveal, which is all driving the plot.
Oh and secrets that arent a big deal blow up until the big reveal, which is all driving the plot.
Posted on 1/22/15 at 9:07 am to THRILLHO
McNulty was definitely in the wrong in season 5 of the Wire. It's part of his character. He has flaws. He fricks up.
Posted on 1/22/15 at 11:29 am to THRILLHO
Breaking Bad
I'd let her die, but I prob wouldn't stick around to watch.
Godfather II
Fredo dies. I would no longer view him as a brother if he tried to take me out. If he did it once, he could do it again.
I'd let her die, but I prob wouldn't stick around to watch.
Godfather II
Fredo dies. I would no longer view him as a brother if he tried to take me out. If he did it once, he could do it again.
Posted on 1/22/15 at 11:41 am to THRILLHO
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I would have turned in Freeman's character. Amy Ryan played a bad mother, but not an evil one or total lost cause.
I dont see how you can say that. She brought her child on a cocaine run. She was clearly a piece of shite throughout the movie. Easily the RIGHT thing to do in that situation is put the child in a better home and give her some hope of not growing into a white trash piece of shite on here own and having 5 kids.
Posted on 1/22/15 at 11:51 am to THRILLHO
quote:
Gone Baby Gone
Easily the toughest moral question any film has ever presented to me. Do you return the child to their shitty parent, or let them stay in the better family that sort of kidnapped them and let the mother go on thinking that their child is dead?
Acting in the best interest of the child is correct here. Leave it with the better parents.
Posted on 1/22/15 at 12:56 pm to THRILLHO
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Easily the toughest moral question any film has ever presented to me
Tougher than the one Sophie had to make in Sophie's choice?
Posted on 1/22/15 at 1:37 pm to THRILLHO
The Mist
At the end when the family is sitting in the car. As the father would you have shot your entire family or wait with them until the monsters came?
The Mist
After the father has shot his entire family and the army arrives. Do you kill yourself or live with the fact that you could have waited another 5 minutes and your family would be alive?
At the end when the family is sitting in the car. As the father would you have shot your entire family or wait with them until the monsters came?
The Mist
After the father has shot his entire family and the army arrives. Do you kill yourself or live with the fact that you could have waited another 5 minutes and your family would be alive?
Posted on 1/22/15 at 2:16 pm to THRILLHO
quote:
McNulty tampering with crime scenes (turning natural deaths into murders) to put more pressure on a legit evil murderer. I would have supported him in this case, but it's a very slippery slope. It certainly couldn't be a widespread practice since it will eventually lead to innocents getting framed by police, but Marlo needed to be in prison.
If you're going to do that, why not just catch him and execute him? I mean, what's the difference? Once you go outside the law, you become a sovereign of one - in for a penny, in for a pound.
Posted on 1/22/15 at 2:33 pm to THRILLHO
Out Cold
As Rick Rambis do you let John Majors build his dream resort and you get promoted to manager of the mountain and get more $ and have hot chicks come in for vacation like Aspen or do you sabotage everything so you and your rif raf buddies can continue to drink and get high all day?
Rick Rambis made the right choice.
As Rick Rambis do you let John Majors build his dream resort and you get promoted to manager of the mountain and get more $ and have hot chicks come in for vacation like Aspen or do you sabotage everything so you and your rif raf buddies can continue to drink and get high all day?
Rick Rambis made the right choice.
Posted on 1/22/15 at 2:48 pm to THRILLHO
I would have turned Morgan Freeman in, especially after I busted my arse, and risked death of my wife and myself to get the girl back to her mother.
MAYBE if Freeman would have let me in on the situation right off the bat, I would've turned a blind eye. But at the point, he had compromised his safety, and his wife's safety, and if he had have ignored it, he would have compromised his honor.
Mcnulty gave too much of a shite in an environment where shits are not given. What he did was just pretty foolish.
MAYBE if Freeman would have let me in on the situation right off the bat, I would've turned a blind eye. But at the point, he had compromised his safety, and his wife's safety, and if he had have ignored it, he would have compromised his honor.
Mcnulty gave too much of a shite in an environment where shits are not given. What he did was just pretty foolish.
Posted on 1/22/15 at 5:02 pm to THRILLHO
Star Wars A New Hope
If you were Han Solo would you have shot Greedo first?
If you were Han Solo would you have shot Greedo first?
Posted on 1/22/15 at 7:23 pm to THRILLHO
Pulp Fiction
After being held hostage by the sick rapist Zed and Co. and narrowly escaping, as Butch do you return to exact revenge on your captors and free your new enemy or do you GTFO and return to the motel to give Fabienne oral pleasure?
I know my answer.
After being held hostage by the sick rapist Zed and Co. and narrowly escaping, as Butch do you return to exact revenge on your captors and free your new enemy or do you GTFO and return to the motel to give Fabienne oral pleasure?
I know my answer.
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