"See the smoke trembling under the roof as if with fright? Yet when it gets out in the air, it has the whole sky to swirl about in. But it doesn't know that, so it huddles and trembles in the soot under the roof. It's the same with people. They quiver like a leaf in the storm, afraid of what they know and what they don't know."
—Beggar, The Virgin Spring
Freedom isn't known, it is felt; and what we feel is defined by the lies that we're fed. As soon as the pandemic ends, you will cherish your "freedom" from the office you called "prison" two years ago. That is what happens when a rat escapes a cage to enter a bigger cage. My point is that if the facility is in the middle of a desert you could let the humanzees roam freely and unsupervised, and yet, they would always choose to come back because they would convince themselves that there is nothing in the world for them. How can you feel trapped when you cannot see the restraints?
Joker: "It's the schemers who put you where you are. You were a schemer. You had plans. And, uh, look where that got you."
((Harvey tries to attack the Joker, who restrains his hand by force))
Joker: I just did what I do best. I took your little plan and I turned it on itself. Look what I did to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets?"
((Harvey tries to attack the Joker, who restrains his hand by force))
Joker: I just did what I do best. I took your little plan and I turned it on itself. Look what I did to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets?"
—The Joker to Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
What is this? Just data, a series of numbers put into a Gameboy cartridge? Just the imagination of a Japanese man made tangible? It looks like lemonade to me. And it tastes like real lemonade should! Is it no less real than the lemonade waiting back home in my kitchen? Perhaps I should stay here. The lemonade is just as sweet.
—Dan Fawcett on being Trapped in TV Land, Pokémon: Storm Clouds
