| | Ross,
I remember Broadcast News... There was the intellectual and thoughtful wanna-be anchor who wouldn't be put on camera, because of his lack of lantern jaw and aryan good looks. Yet, once he was actually put on camera, he sweat like Jabba the Hut or something.
Very good movie.
And I like the point you made about people getting what they deserve. You know, I think that there are two sorts of people in the world: those who are constantly anticipating outcomes, and those who have to have consequences literally blow up directly in their faces, in order to understand what consequences will arise.
And of course, there are benefits and drawbacks to both. The first type of person may oftentimes be precognitively, spookily correct about what's to come, BUT ruin their health and quality of life in the meantime by imagining awful consequences that may not actually come, due to an incomplete knowledge of contributing factors.
The second type of person may enjoy a life of spontaneous freedom before the bubble bursts, but when it does... oh buddy. Of course, they then perish like lemmings, and proclaim "There was no way to know; it's God's will".
Oh well. Whatcha gonna do.
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