Leo Masliah - Tabla de salvación versuri traducere în engleză

Salvation table

When I feel that the moral is unstable, that the ethics are critically threatened, I resort to a very powerful salvation table. It's something that always let me overcome.
 
I'll tell you in what consists: Harrison Ford.
 
But not the Harrison Ford of the first era, the one who appeared in hippies stuff or student revolts stuff. I have nothing against that of course, we all been through that era. But I'm neither talking about that Harrison Ford of Indiana Jones. I don't criticize it either, it's fine but as entertainment, not as a role model. I'm neither talking about the already old Harrison Ford who appears in movies of cowboys fighting against aliens, there he went to hell. I'm talking about the adult, mature Harrison Ford, who is solid in his certainty.
 
Like for example in 'Clear and Present Danger' where he's a CIA agent and another agent wants to involve him in secret operations that walk over the constitution and democracy, and wants to justify himself saying that he sees everything in black and white. And Harrison Ford answers him that it's not about black and white, it's about 'right and wrong' like he says.
 
He already did that role in 'Patriot Games' and there he was fighting against terrorism. But well, some might think that he was doing it to keep his income or to protect his family which was being threatened by the terrorists. But no, it wasn't only for that. And he shows it in 'Clear and Present Danger' because there the bad guys were part of the very government. That means that his values were beyond protecting a public employment. Even if his superiors request him, he can't commit a crime.
 
Like in 'The Fugitive' where he has to scape because they accused him of a crime he didn't commit. Because he is incapable of commiting a crime. It's incredible that the other characters during the whole length of the movie don't understand that he didn't do it. He was innocent.
 
Like in 'Presumed Innocent'. Someone had killed his lover and... well, I won't say that it's ok that he had a lover, but I won't get in to judge him either, right? Without knowing the problems that could be in the intimacy of his marriage, Maybe what he did was a mistake, maybe having a lover wasn't the best solution.
 
All right. He's not perfect, he's a human being that can be wrong, but he's not a murderer even if at a certain moment the suspicions fall on him. I don't agree with that part of the script of the movie.
 
Of course. It's based on a novel by Scott Turow, and maybe when Scott Turow wrote it he didn't know that Harrison Ford was going to be on the film adaptation. But when he accepted the role, they should have changed that part. Anyway, you know something? I'm glad they didn't do it. Because that way they gave Harrison Ford the chance of proving that he didn't do it.
 
Like in that other movie 'Regarding Henry'. There he was a lawyer who never had time to be with his family, and he also had a lover. But in a certain moment he has an accident and loses his memory. And there you find out that all those things weren't part of his escence, they were acquired things, they were part of the alienation of the contemporary man. Because when he loses the memory, he recovers his original pureness, he becomes the Rousseau's noble savage.
 
And then is when he's recovering himself, he's rebuilding himself, he buys a puppy, he becomes a family man, like in 'Air Force One'. There he is the president but he doesn't neglect his family. Because it's not incompatible a job of such high responsability with the dedication to the home, the monitoring of the children. When I say monitoring I'm not talking about espionage, I'm talking about getting interested about what they do, to be there to advice them when they need it.
 
And in that movie he goes way beyond that, right? Becasue he saves them, he faces the terrorists who kidnapped the plane. He's a hero. Because he doesn't need the CIA, he doesn't need the National Security Agency. He himself is the one who takes back the control of the presidential plane. The safety of his family cannot rely on third parties.
 
Like in 'Frantic' where his wife dissapears and he's the one who has to go out searching for her. It's not enough with reporting to the police. It's a thriller, but be careful, it's a Roman Polanski movie, it's higher art. And Roman Polanski is not an idiot. He didn't pick Chuck Norris for that role. He didn't pick Jean Claude Van Damme. He picked Harrison Ford.
 
And I in my modest scale, I do the same. When I feel that I'm going to drown in the generalized crisis of values that surround us, I choose Harrison Ford and that way I recover the direction.
 

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