Film (audio in Russian, subtitles in English)
Another movie (audio in English, no subtitles)
The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost
Hit the Road, Jack, by Ray Charles
This is the story of an untrustworthy bandit, "Shark" Dodson.
He and two mates more, John Big Dog and Bob Tidball, robbed a train. In the fray of the attack, John Big Dog was shot dead by one of the train employees. The other two bandits ran away with a big booty of thirty thousand dollars, and happier they were because now they were only two to divide the amount: there wasn’t a third in the party.
They got to the place where they had left their horses
and set John Big Dog’s horse free. Then they mount and went away as fast as they could. But during
their flight, Bob Tidball’s horse broke its leg, and they had to kill the brute. So now
they were two robbers, their booty and only a horse; in consequence, their
escape was a bit more difficult, but not impossible. However, Shark Dodson
decided that two people were too many people for a horse, and got rid of Bob
Tidball murdering him in cold blood to secure his flight and to keep all the money for him only, even though Bob had been a staunch friend
of his.
Some years later, we find Dodson turned on a very respectable rich man with his
own company. He had also friends, the best one of them, Williams, with a big number of shares in Dodson’s
company. But all of a sudden, there was a financial crisis, and Williams was on the point
of losing all his money. He went to Dodson to ask for help, and Dodson…
QUESTIONS
Do you think everyone gets what he deserves in this
world? Do you have any example (real or fictional)?
Do you think it’s possible to go up in society and
become very rich following strictly legal and ethical ways?
Think about case of betrayal you know and tell us
about it, as if it were a story (about love, politics, money…) Do you know any case
in which treachery could be justified?
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