6 November

“One of the great divisions of existence is that between people who absorb the learning that lies in books, and those who take nothing on trust, and have to find out the hard way through life’s lessons for themselves.” (Nicolas Rothwell.) Mamet’s idea for this movie reminds me of this quote, where the bookish guy is the most able to survive the extreme situation, because he learned and thinks. We love to hate the scholarly, but they create civilisation. Most of the Western civilisation we enjoy for example we owe to generations of scholarly monks.