Infernal Affairs and The Departed

• subjectivity - implies you create the world ..., Irrational 
• objectivity implies the world is created for you in it (Nationalism or realism) 
• Violence - (pathetic grizzly and horrifying) Irony ... order enlightenment 
• Black and white, good and bad... 
• objectivity - gravitas seriousness, heaviness, woriness, a movies acadamy award 
• objectivity: Importance of character 
• character driven material - realism, naturalism not stylized melodrama 
• ( homosexual ... sexual abuse implications... importance) 
• This is a real world- who am I , in it. The individual is empowered 
• subjectivity - the universe destiny - the karmic wheel is way more empowered than you puny human ego 
• This is a real world - who am I in it. The individual empowered self 
• Christian vs Confucian or Buddhist 
• what do we learn about America?