Why does Justine lie?
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ScorpionTDC — 9 years ago(April 26, 2016 10:13 AM)
I'm sure saving some trees will make it up to the other people the cannibals eat, torture, and slaughter
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bdhrentertainment — 10 years ago(December 31, 2015 04:44 PM)
I posted this comment on another thread, but here it is for you:
That's the culture of the village. They aren't evil per se. That's the only thing they've ever known. They're a product of their environment. The villagers killed the activists b/c they felt threatened by them thinking they were part of the corporation that was bulldozing their environment and trying to kill them. Remember the scene at the beginning w/ the teacher explaining female circumcision and the teacher explains that's a part of another culture and that it's seen as acceptable there. Same logic.
The main character couldn't forgive that guy and left him, because he simply exploited the villagers to gain fame. He knew that they would get killed and that they would lose their homes, but choose to do so, so that he could get more popular and his organization would as well in the process.
Remember the guy's girlfriend asks the main character if she's doing this for the right reasons and she responds yes. The boyfriend (or the guy left in the cage) wasn't. On top of that, he consciously offered up one of the fellow members as a sacrifice to the tribe.
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ScorpionTDC — 9 years ago(April 26, 2016 10:14 AM)
That's the culture of the village. They aren't evil per se. That's the only thing they've ever known.
Oh good. I was worried Nazis were evil, but now you've assured me since that's their culture I should respect it and they aren't evil.
Anyways, seeing as the natives didn't mutilate and eat each other, it's pretty safe to say that they actually do know killing people is frowned upon. This isn't that complex of an issue
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jbaker1-2 — 3 years ago(February 24, 2023 02:58 PM)
And another charter member of the Dunning-Kruger Club is heard from…
There are 8.2 billion people in the world. 8.19 billion of them have never heard of and don't give a fuck about Charlie Kirk. Get over it. -
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ilk005 — 10 years ago(January 09, 2016 04:01 PM)
would you kill all wild animals in amazon because they can eat a human? this is their natural life. if a tiger hunt a human nobody call it a killer. she noticed that and let them live there. this is nature rule.
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darren-oconnor — 10 years ago(February 21, 2016 11:15 PM)
Oh, so you mean the people of this native tribe are just a bunch of wild animals, totally driven by instinct and incapable of rational thought like, say, a jaguar or a python?
In other words,
they're
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skeetchtvs — 9 years ago(August 08, 2016 05:49 AM)
That's not even close to the same thing.
Human's are supposed to know better and be more evolved. Also it's not like they killed these guys in their sleep, they all had horrifying deaths. Especially the first guy. He had his eyes, tongue & everything until he eventually died. If I saw that, there's no way I would have lied when I got back. -
Becks81 — 9 years ago(October 14, 2016 11:21 AM)
Some people say that she did it to save the boy, but wouldnt he get killed for helping her in the first place anyway? i certainly wouldnt put it past them to kill a boy, seeing what they were capable of.
The tribe should be killed, even if it was their "nature" to kill and they were just "animals"; with that logic, its justifiable to kill them, because of Darwinist "survival of the fittest" - we have the guns, we take your land. After all, the tribe didnt think twice about using weapons against the prisoners.
And to say the others would have died for nothing if she gave up the tribe? If I was killed by cannibals I thought was worth protecting, I would definately want Justine to rat them out and get the wiped of the surface of the earth. -
jbaker1-2 — 3 years ago(February 24, 2023 03:01 PM)
would you kill all wild animals in amazon because they can eat a human? this is their natural life. if a tiger hunt a human nobody call it a killer. she noticed that and let them live there. this is nature rule.
You can't reason with a right-winger. They barely understand "sit", "fetch" and "who's a good boy", let alone anything more complex.
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Synetech — 10 years ago(January 25, 2016 11:07 PM)
It seems that everybody else who responded either did not know why she lied or completely forgot the scene where Alejandro told them the truth. That scene was there specifically to pave the way for the twist ending.
Alejandro explained that they were not in fact saving the village at all, that they were there simply to make a public spectacle to delay one company from razing the village long enough to allow a competing company to beat them to it. The reason that he went along with it, knowing full-well that it was futile was not to save that village, but as a photoshoot as he said, to raise awareness and gain fame for the group so that they could make a difference with other causes for which they actually stand a chance.
She lied because she realized that if she told the truth, people would be less upset about a village of primitive, barbaric savages being wiped out, and things would go back to normal (and the group would probably even get ridiculed and discredited for trying to save them). However, if she made them out to be gentle recluses who saved her, then there would be a lot more outrage over the incident, and the group could continue to fight for other causes more effectively.
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nuttallr — 10 years ago(January 26, 2016 08:31 AM)
It's really simple actually. There's 3 reasons why she lies. In no particular order.
- The boy saves her life, she owes him.
- By lying she saves that section of the Amazon which is what the rest of the group gave their lives for.
- If she tells the truth that also includes telling the truth about leaving that guy behind, making her look bad and possibly facing legal action from his family.
Why is this so difficult to understand?
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ScorpionTDC — 9 years ago(April 25, 2016 09:05 AM)
- If she tells the truth that also includes telling the truth about leaving that guy behind, making her look bad and possibly facing legal action from his family.
I tried to rescue him but cannibals attacked me and I needed to save myself.
Oops, legal problems gone.
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- If she tells the truth that also includes telling the truth about leaving that guy behind, making her look bad and possibly facing legal action from his family.