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CompanyFirstSergeant

(1,558 posts)
11. Moscow on the Hudson.
Thu May 19, 2016, 09:01 AM
May 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_on_the_Hudson

The Robin Williams movie where he is a defector from the USSR who comes to live in Manhattan.

Excellent movie.

Best scene is later on, where he is used to living in the US, but there is something about his old life he actually misses.

Turns out, it is misery that he misses. Excellent soliloquy where he describes how sometimes misery was the only thing he had,

Fear. There is a segment of modern American society who spends their entire lives managing fear.

Various sources of fear, various levels, various intensities, various reactions, but the fear is always there.

For these people, the only true, definitive source of 'non fear' is a uniformed officer. A cop. Carrying a gun.

When the cop leaves, fear returns.

Armed civilians ruin that paradigm. It's like Robin WIlliams' character in the supermarket in Manhattan with products all around.
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