What Frank Says

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These are some quotes by Frank Murdoch, the main character of God Bless America. A black comedy movie that exposed about popular culture in America.  The TV and society show shallow mind and idiocy according to Frank and Roxy. Both of them turn their adventure into killing spree. They kill annoying and stupid people they meet. If this movie has the Indonesian version, it would be in three hours duration and it's gonna be super massive! Imagine how lame and stupid our televisions are. So, here we go, Frank, you may speak now!

[On the air] My name is Frank. That’s not important. The important question is: who are you? America has become a cruel and vicious place. We reward the shallowest, the dumbest, the meanest and the loudest. We no longer have any common sense of decency. No sense of shame. There is no right and wrong. The worst qualities in people are looked up to and celebrated. Lying and spreading fear is fine as long as you make money doing it. We’ve become a nation of slogan-saying, bile-spewing hatemongers. We’ve lost our kindness. We’ve lost our soul. What have we become? We take the weakest in our society, we hold them up to be ridiculed, laughed at for our sport and entertainment. Laughed at to the point, where they would literally rather kill themselves than live with us anymore

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It's not nice to laugh at someone who's not all there. It's the same type of freak-show distraction that comes along every time a mighty empire starts collapsing. "American Superstarz" is the new colosseum and I won't participate in watching a show where the weak are torn apart every week for our entertainment. I'm done, really, everything is so "cool" now. I just want it all to stop. I mean, nobody talks about anything anymore. They just regurgitate everything they see on TV, or hear on the radio or watch on the web. When was the last time you had a real conversation with someone without somebody texting or looking at a screen or a monitor over your head? You know, a conversation about something that wasn't celebrities, gossip, sports, or pop politics. You know, something important, something personal

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I mean, why have a civilization anymore if we no longer are interested in being civilized?

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That's one of the problems of your generation. You can't enjoy anything unless it was recorded. You were there. You lived it. Isn't that enough of an experience? I mean, next time you want to remember something, instead of taking out your cell phone, why don't you take a picture of it with your brain camera? I mean, when I was your age, nobody tweeted, yet we managed to have experiences. You know, a phone was attached to a wall back at the house. It didn't have a camera

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