Post by mikef6 on Apr 18, 2017 1:56:47 GMT
Sidney Carton spectacularly redeems his life as a wastrel and alcoholic in “A Tale of Two Cities.”
Not a classic and a mediocre movie but Antoine Fuqua’s “The Replacement Killers” (1998) has a memorable scene near the end when the two title characters, career criminals Meg (Mira Sorvino) and John (Chow Yun-Fat) have to decide whether to go to the rescue of the young son of the detective who has hounded them all the way through or take the money and make a getaway. I couldn’t find the exact quote anywhere but Meg says something like this to John: “If we do this for him, then then maybe our lives, lived as we have, will finally have some meaning. We can live with a clear conscience.” And they ride off to the rescue.
Maybe a few more later when I have time to think about it.
Not a classic and a mediocre movie but Antoine Fuqua’s “The Replacement Killers” (1998) has a memorable scene near the end when the two title characters, career criminals Meg (Mira Sorvino) and John (Chow Yun-Fat) have to decide whether to go to the rescue of the young son of the detective who has hounded them all the way through or take the money and make a getaway. I couldn’t find the exact quote anywhere but Meg says something like this to John: “If we do this for him, then then maybe our lives, lived as we have, will finally have some meaning. We can live with a clear conscience.” And they ride off to the rescue.
Maybe a few more later when I have time to think about it.