Scene between brothers, Jack (Shia Le Boeuf) and Forrest Bondurant (Tom Hardy).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzfEIHNUFmA

Forrest: So you want to get into this racket. But I see you sitting there, looking like somebody’s punching bag. So I ask you……What do you intend to do now?
Jack: What do I intend to-do?
Forrest: Yeah. You. You expect somebody else to handle it?
Jack: No.
Forrest: Howard, maybe?
Jack: That ain’t what I meant.
Forrrest: What did you mean?
Jack (mumbles): I don’t need no help.
Forrest: I’m sorry?
Jack: I don’t need no help.
Forrest: Oh, you don’t? Here it is. As long as you are my brother, you will never let this happen again, do you understand?
Jack: I get it.
Forrest: I don’t think you do.
Jack: What if I can’t? I mean, I ain’t… I’m not built like you and Howard. I ain’t never been like you.
Forrest: It’s all right. Listen, Jack…It is not the violence that sets a man apart. It is the distance that he is prepared to go. Jack, look at me. We’re survivors. We control the fear. And without the fear, we are all as good as dead. Do you understand? Do you?




> On Feb 23, 2015, at 2:11 PM, Noel Maersk <veox@???> wrote:
>
> There hasn't been mail to this list for a while now, makes me wonder if
> it's just me, or there's something wrong on the other end.
>
> I thought of sending something relevant, just to see if it goes through,
> but nothing really came to mind.
>
> Only thing perhaps is a recent talk with a few friends on the nature of
> authority, their argument being that power hierarchies is what made
> humanity safer. That people in general don't want to assume
> responsibility, and so passively follow a leader.
>
> They weren't concise on why, but among the reasons were ignorance,
> indifference, lack of aspiration, and the like. Thinking about it now,
> it strikes me how they didn't mention fear.
>
> It makes me feel sad - I think now they were talking not about "people
> in general", but themselves, perhaps unknowingly, perhaps in a detached
> fashion.
>
> It's also hard to argue about these things with other westerners. We
> think too much that everybody is like us, and even those who like to
> travel tend to praise what they've known for ages, once they're settled
> back in.
>
> The "nature of authority" and similar phrases are, of course, oxymorons
> I use here for lack of words and memory to reproduce the discussion
> verbatim.
>
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