"He said 'I think that New York is the new model for the new concentration camp, where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves and the inmates are the guards and they have this pride in this thing they've built? They've built their own prison! And so, they exist in a state of schizophrenia where they are both guards and prisoners and, as a result, they no longer have -- having been lobotomized -- the capacity to leave the prison they've made or to even see it as a prison.' And then he went into his pocket and he took out a seed for a tree and he said 'This is a pine tree'. He put it in my hand and he said 'Escape before it's too late'."
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Comedy-drama films1980s American filmsFilms set in New York CityPhilosophy filmsFilms directed by Louis Malle
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