The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson
Distrust the system and avoid law; keep fighting for reform dissent
In the discussion (2)
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- Distrusting the justice system and avoiding a legal career compete with the more optimistic lesson to keep fighting.
- Reform is defended as necessary because the system improves through people who uphold its virtues; Arthur’s expulsion is tragic, and the film is treated as the beginning of an argument rather than a reason to surrender.