"Maybe things have changed."
"What's changed?"
"You mean since this morning?"
"No, I mean since whenever."

Corporate interests have never (and will never) not come at the expense of our own, and here Mann richly dramatizes the crushing pressures, lasting damages, and sheer difficulty inherent to resisting them. Are we running out of heroes or are they being systematically broken down? Is there even anything left for them to save? God Crowe, God Pacino, God Plummer.