What's important is promising something to the people not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.
I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And...
You are forever alone.
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class age gender culture.