Movie: The Last Supper

Movie: The Last Supper

The Last Supper, by Dan Rosen, supposedly dares to take on deep subjects

in a vein of sarcastic humor. But, what it says is that liberals, because of

their belief, have the right to pass death sentences on opponents. The story was

amusing at times and there was some comedy in the film, but it didn't really go

anywhere. The most famous actor in the film was Mark Harmon, and they showed

him for about one minute, before he got killed.

The movie takes place in Ames, Iowa. The film is about five liberal

graduate students living together, (three males and two females) that enjoy

inviting different guest over every Sunday for dinner. The students indulge

their sense of superiority by inviting those that they regard as being less

enlightened. They enjoy having different types of discussions dealing with all

different types of topics. Their first guest that we see, ends up being a

trucker who gives one of the five students a lift home because his car broke

down. They invite the trucker in to eat, because they had an extra seat at the

table and their originally invited guest could not make it for dinner. The

trucker ends up being an anti-Semite and he is also an ex-marine. Immediately

after the trucker sits down at the table to eat he starts pointing out to the

five students that he hates Jews and that they always try to bargain down

anything that they buy. All five of the students are stunned by the remarks

that the trucker is making, especially one of the students that is Jewish. They

all get into a heated argument and the trucker goes out of control; in addition,

he grabs the Jewish student and puts a knife to his throat. They are all

shocked by this and they immediately attempt to calm the trucker down. He

releases the Jewish student and then breaks an arm of another student who was

trying to free the Jewish student. The Jewish student picks up a butcher's

knife and stabs the trucker in the back, which eventually kills the trucker. At

this point the movie picks up a little. They all begin to contemplate about

what to do with the body. They decide on burying the body in the back yard.

They said it would cause a lot of problems if they contacted the police. They

all agreed at this time that killing the trucker was only good for society.

After they had buried the trucker they all sat down and the...

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...dents drink and they all die.

Nicola Machiavelli had a very interesting theory about his belief in

having power, "By any means necessary." That is exactly what these liberal

students did in order for them to have happiness. I think that in society most

of us try to follow the Machiavellian theory on trying to do anything and

everything possible in order for ourselves to survive. Machiavelli hoped that,

"by helping the Prince rule more effectively, he might help Italy achieve the

greatness he hoped for." Machiavelli believed that he didn't need to be

appointed leader to run things in Italy back then. These student are the same,

they believed that through killing off these few people that they thought were a

danger to society, that it was going to make a difference in our government.

Maybe it's a good thing that Machiavelli wasn't the actual leader of Italy,

because if these five liberal students were leaders of this country we would

have nothing but chaos. I think that this film probably would have made more

money as a b ook and not a film.

Sources Cited

Nicola Machiavelli information was located on the Internet at

http://rhf.bradley.edu/~liberty/mach.html.