Comments | biggerolive: Would you do it?

biggerolive

Would you do it?

Aug 15, 2005 00:04

I took the sexiest nap today! I haven’t napped for several months because I never work in the morning so I really don’t get up for a while. But yeah, I worked early today and went climbing and then I came home and napped and it was awesome. I felt so refreshed and warm (it was rainy and foggy and generally chilly today), and then I went and won ( Read more... )

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mostuncertain August 15 2005, 07:01:14 UTC

I think everyone would take the money. This is dealt with in a more interesting way in Bergman's 1968 film Shame. At issue is that the boss comes to the husband for the proposal, effectively asking him to pimp out his wife. A similar situation happens in Godard's Contempt. The morality of both husbands & wives tend to fail in these movies I think in a slightly different way than they would in real life ( ... )

biggerolive August 18 2005, 00:22:22 UTC

you bring up a great point in that it probably wouldn't take much money to get people to cheat anyway. but that's an assumption that's hard to prove because, as you said, the situation is purely hypothetical. and i guess i'm thinking about people who are genuinely in love, not people who would cheat for free.

i feel incredibly naive.

mostuncertain August 18 2005, 01:39:08 UTC

From what you had said, I had no idea you were talking about people in love. In that case the question seems to be, could a million dollars effectively make someone fall out of love. It, & any number of other circumstances could & do make this happen regularly.

There are very few movies about happily married couples which do not have some twist like this. I believe people like thinking about it, that it is titlating to think about being corrupted & that is why it makes for such a popular form of meditation.

I think most people have a different price tag. For some people it isn't money, in which case their mind will emmediately go to what their price tag is. "I wouldn't do it for a million, but if it was Jude Law, fuck yes I'd be all over it!" Or some process to that effect.

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biggerolive August 18 2005, 00:35:05 UTC

are you talking about prostitution in the first sentence?

I guess my beef is how principles are lost when money is offered, which ties into what you said about a large sum of money being the big incentive that it is given our society and economic system.

thanks for yr thoughts, i feel like we've just started peeling back the paper on this one.

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biggerolive August 18 2005, 00:36:25 UTC

what a steal!