美国禁欲

So now it's time for me to speak.
What is there for me to say? When I finish, you'll sentence me for my crime.
So let me ask you now:
What is a crime? What is a punishment?
It seems to vary from time to time and place to place.
What's legal today is suddenly illegal tomorrow.
What's illegal is suddenly legal because everybody's doing it.
You can't put everybody in jail.
I'm not saying this is right or wrong.
I'm just saying that's the way it is.
I've spent 3 and half years of my life in your prison.
I think I've paid for my error.
If it's your decision today to sentence me to more years ...
My lawyer ... that's a good one.
He says, ''Be cool, Billy.''
''Be good. I'II get you a pardon, an amnesty, an appeal.''
This has been going on now for 3 and half years.
I've been playing it cool. I've been good.
Now I'm damn tired of being good.
You said I had 53 days left.

★★★（四星为满分）
据说，真正的比利·海斯于1970年被土耳其逮捕，因试图将大麻走私出境的指控而入狱。他有罪。他最初被判了3至5年的监禁，但后来土耳其当局决定以更严重的罪名对他进行审判。新的判决几乎是终身监禁。这位入狱的年轻大学生要到中年晚期才会被释放，如果有可能的话。
海斯越狱了，越过边境逃到了希腊，写了本关于他经历的畅销书。两年后，电影《午夜快车》上映了，改编自他的书，由布拉德·戴维斯饰演自恋、以自我为中心的海斯

Intense and mind-boggling. A seemingly deserving punishment from a stupid mistake turned out to be violating humanity. Humans weren't treated equally as humans sometimes. Sometimes they're benefits and sometimes they're cannon fodders, or just flickering head counts for the accountants. Why is it so simple for people to lose mercy yet so hard to retain justice and good ethics?
The monologue stuck in me is this:

午夜快车：Roger Ebert的影评翻译
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