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Charm City Slicker (57-35)@sprawlhater.bsky.social |
Of course you could make a story about how totalitarianism punishes the most intelligent members of a society and makes people fear admitting mistakes, leading to collective ruin. but that's a different movie, and would have nothing really to do directly with Guinness making a stand about the rules
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Dan
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it’s perfect that he resists over the supposed principle of his officers having to do manual labor but then once he wins the battle of wills and is put in charge of the project he ends up asking his officers to do the manual labor after all
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Charm City Slicker (57-35)
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And of course the point is that the enlisted men don't want to build the bridge because it's abetting the enemy, it's the officer corps that becomes obsessed with doing the job properly regardless of what the job actually is. Rule of law might get better acute results but in pursuit of what?
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Simon Birenbaum
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That's Chernobyl.
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