Judging from the brick-sized radio held by the Cowboy in the film, the story told by the film took place in the early 1960s. At that time, the United States was trapped in the quagmire of the Vietnam War, and all kinds of decadent thoughts and genres among the young people in society were flooded. The Cowherd in the film is a member of this trend. Fortunately, after hitting walls and bumping his nose and eyes blue, he rethinked himself, and was influenced by the lame pauper who was too poor but did not lose his self-esteem, and finally woke up. When he took the long-distance bus with the seriously ill pauper to his hometown of Florida, he decided that he would find a job there and never go back to New York to do a cowboy. But the bus hadn't reached the terminal, and the pauper died in the arms of the cowboy. Cowherd held the deceased, afraid of disturbing other passengers, so he dared not cry, tears could only flow into his belly. The story in the film is sad enough. From this sad story, the film raises two social problems, namely, the problem of unhealthy teenagers and the problem of homelessness. That cowboy is such a bad young man. Although he will go on the right track in the future, what if he didn't meet the pauper and met the bad guy? The pauper was still disabled and could only curl up in an abandoned dilapidated apartment that was about to be demolished. He was actually homeless. She is kind-hearted and self-esteem. When she is critically ill, she just wants to return to her hometown. Of course, it is impossible for the film to propose any "good prescriptions" for these social problems, but it is enough to arouse people's deep thinking and call out the conscience of society. According to some sources, Dustin Hoffman asked the director to meet in order to get the role of pauper. At that time, he dressed as a beggar and went to the appointment, but the director did not recognize him. In order to make the performance appear more realistic when filming, the shoes were actually filled with pebbles. In doing this, Hoffman, in addition to his love of film art, thinks that he values this role very much, knowing that this role has social significance that cannot be underestimated.
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