影片中破败荒凉的工厂，停滞的社会发展、一群为生存而失去自我的人们，这都是体制转型、历史发展选择的结果

领操实在就是楷模式教育的具体显现：选择一个最驯服体系体例的同类树为楷模：越接近则越准确，反之则被鉴定为毛病的、应当批评的。

另外一处成心思的片断，是在早晨的纽约，开宝贵跑车逾越哈德逊河回公司的路上，一个华尔街老兵教育新人的话："If you really want to do this with your life you have to believe that youre necessary. And you are. People want to live like this in their cars and their big fucking houses that they cant even pay for? Then youre necessary. The only reason they all get to continue living like kings is because weve got our fingers on the scales in their favor. I take my hand off and the whole world gets really fucking fair really fucking quickly and nobody actually wants that. They say they do but they dont. They want what we have to give them, but they also want to play innocent and pretend they have no idea where it came from. Thats more hypocrisy than Im willing to swallow. Fuck them. Fuck normal people."短短几句话，绝不传教，刹时让这部片子和inside job之流的文艺青年说教片高低立现。

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