Pulled this off another forum!
"I saw a really good movie the other day entitled Passer By. It was a very thought-provoking drama that dealt with something that we rarely see in movies - a study into the apparent weakness and indifference displayed throughout by the leading male character.
At the start of the movie there's an interesting dilemma presented. Joe Keyes, played by James Nesbitt, is a fortyish radiographer of average height and build who is travelling home from work late one night on a train. The only other person in his carriage is an attractive thirtyish woman.
The train stops at a station and a pair of young white men in their twenties, both well-dressed, and both of average height and build get onto the train. One of them in particular is quite drunk and is rather loud and talkative. At first he's rather jovial, exchanging barbs with both Joe and the lady. He brags about how fast he can send text messages on his mobile phone and offers to demonstrate this to the lady.
However, she reads it as a ploy by him to get her mobile number and doesn't play along. The banter continues in a reasonably pleasant manner with the intoxicated young man seemingly trying to hit on the young woman. But she isn't overly impressed with him and soon he starts becoming more aggressive in his words. His friend also becomes less friendly towards the woman.
Joe says "come on, fellas", in an attempt to smooth over the worsening atmosphere in the train, but the drunken young man verbally snaps at Joe. Just then it's Joe's train stop and as he prepares to get off the train, the drunken young man moves onto the seat next to the woman and his friend also moves in closer to her.
The woman sees that Joe is about to get off the train and looks over anxiously at him and says "please". She fears for her safety and doesn't want Joe to get off the train. But Joe is tired and wants to get home and he doesn't seem to believe the two young men might be a serious threat to the woman and that they're probably just being a bit drunk and boisterous. He tells the lady to just press the emergiency help button if she needs to and he steps off the train.
What do you honestly think you would have done if you were in Joe's situation? Would you have been more assertive in protecting the woman? Would you have been prepared to physically take on two drunken young thugs in the closed confines of a train carriage? What if they were armed? Would you have risked your own person to save a strange woman from potentially being attacked?
Would you have stayed on the train with the woman when she asked? Or would you have suggested that she get off the train at the station with you? Or would you have done what Joe did? Would you have done something else? Have your say."
SN'
"I saw a really good movie the other day entitled Passer By. It was a very thought-provoking drama that dealt with something that we rarely see in movies - a study into the apparent weakness and indifference displayed throughout by the leading male character.
At the start of the movie there's an interesting dilemma presented. Joe Keyes, played by James Nesbitt, is a fortyish radiographer of average height and build who is travelling home from work late one night on a train. The only other person in his carriage is an attractive thirtyish woman.
The train stops at a station and a pair of young white men in their twenties, both well-dressed, and both of average height and build get onto the train. One of them in particular is quite drunk and is rather loud and talkative. At first he's rather jovial, exchanging barbs with both Joe and the lady. He brags about how fast he can send text messages on his mobile phone and offers to demonstrate this to the lady.
However, she reads it as a ploy by him to get her mobile number and doesn't play along. The banter continues in a reasonably pleasant manner with the intoxicated young man seemingly trying to hit on the young woman. But she isn't overly impressed with him and soon he starts becoming more aggressive in his words. His friend also becomes less friendly towards the woman.
Joe says "come on, fellas", in an attempt to smooth over the worsening atmosphere in the train, but the drunken young man verbally snaps at Joe. Just then it's Joe's train stop and as he prepares to get off the train, the drunken young man moves onto the seat next to the woman and his friend also moves in closer to her.
The woman sees that Joe is about to get off the train and looks over anxiously at him and says "please". She fears for her safety and doesn't want Joe to get off the train. But Joe is tired and wants to get home and he doesn't seem to believe the two young men might be a serious threat to the woman and that they're probably just being a bit drunk and boisterous. He tells the lady to just press the emergiency help button if she needs to and he steps off the train.
What do you honestly think you would have done if you were in Joe's situation? Would you have been more assertive in protecting the woman? Would you have been prepared to physically take on two drunken young thugs in the closed confines of a train carriage? What if they were armed? Would you have risked your own person to save a strange woman from potentially being attacked?
Would you have stayed on the train with the woman when she asked? Or would you have suggested that she get off the train at the station with you? Or would you have done what Joe did? Would you have done something else? Have your say."
SN'
