"STARTLING & INVENTIVE...This is not a movie that lets go of you easily."

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A. O. Scott

#Letting Go Quotes

“We should not be comfortable or content in a society where the only way to remain free of surveillance and repression is if we make ourselves as unthreatning, passive, and compliant as possible.”
“I have a funny process : it’s called procrastination.”
“Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.”
“It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.”
“The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary.”
“I had my two front teeth knocked out by a sixth grader in first grade.”
“We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.”
“Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of the legal system, combined with the universal adoption of zealotry as the marching orders of practioners and prosecutors, transforms the moral mission of the legal system from one of truth-seeking, storytelling, and justice, to one of fabrication, distortion, and manipulation in pursuit of victory. These victories, however, make us all losers.”

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