I admit I was eagerly watching this hoping somebody else would explain it because he just was not communicating very well! I haven't watched it in a while, but the line that I remember really sticking with me is he said something like he needed to know when he was doing better...or just something about doing better. I wondered...does he mean doing better than something else? Or just "doing better" in a general sense? So confusing?
I think the first part was clear, that it was hard for him killing this person that was, to him, a real, innocent person who deserved to live and was probably bringing something good into the world. But maybe he himself after that had a hard time saying what he needed to make himself okay with that. He was definitely trying to work it out as he talked.
I feel like a central conflict of being Philip, which is different than Elizabeth, is that he seems to see the cause as trying to help the little guy but how many little guys are getting hurt here? But he's maybe not sure what that would feel like. You'd think the apartheid struggle would have been better for him, but then the guy had to go and necklace someone.
Anyway, it sure sets him apart from silver-tongued Ronald Reagan making an incredibly calculated speech perfectly tailored to manipulate his specific audience.
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Date: 2015-06-09 06:50 pm (UTC)I think the first part was clear, that it was hard for him killing this person that was, to him, a real, innocent person who deserved to live and was probably bringing something good into the world. But maybe he himself after that had a hard time saying what he needed to make himself okay with that. He was definitely trying to work it out as he talked.
I feel like a central conflict of being Philip, which is different than Elizabeth, is that he seems to see the cause as trying to help the little guy but how many little guys are getting hurt here? But he's maybe not sure what that would feel like. You'd think the apartheid struggle would have been better for him, but then the guy had to go and necklace someone.
Anyway, it sure sets him apart from silver-tongued Ronald Reagan making an incredibly calculated speech perfectly tailored to manipulate his specific audience.