I'd be hear arguments that this is an ordinary case or your typical guy who can't keep it in his pants--but for three things. He's a hypocrite, espousing all kinds of moral high ground while committing adultery with a girl who, after claiming she's twenty, asks Gosling's character how it feels to have, uh, slept with a teenager. Write that off as normal and excusable behavior if you want, but it isn't. (Or, if it is, I can't live in a world where it's normal without speaking up about it.) Then, Morris is a man who admits in a TV interview that he'd commit murder if someone killed--or was it raped--his wife, and he'd serve his time. How noble to claim he'd take the consequences for a capital crime. But he tries to weasel out of an illicit sexual encounter. Again, a hypocrite. Finally, he is seeking the most powerful position in the world and would likely get it if the movie continued, but he abuses power in the most callous way. The movie makes a great deal about taking responsibility for choices. Steve loses his job because he made a choice to listen to the enemy's proposal. According to Molly's account, after a lengthy conversation with Morris, he reached over and closed the door. He made a choice to seduce her. It's about hypocrisy and the misuse of powejr.
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