At the beginning, he was sitting at the poker table, although he was still a young boy. As soon as you appear on the field, it is a duel, and the bet is life.
Even though Barry hasn't been a dealer for the most part in his life, he's keen to smell the opportunity and take a gamble. Disguised to escape, double spy, seduce the noble lady, he seems to have become a dealer, and can start to be unrestrained. But there are winners and losers in gambling, even if it is a thousand, it will be won for a while, but not forever.
In the face of Bullington's duel, he actually had no choice: Killing Bullington would not do him any good, on the contrary, his wife would leave him, and the upper class would abandon him even more without hesitation. The shot to the ground was both righteous and desperate.
After all his life, he just wanted to play the cards in his hand better, and for what reason, it seems that only when he was a father did he see the real meaning. When the child dies, the need is only to survive decently.
The narration of the film is calm and restrained, the rhythm is unhurried like a chronicle, and each frame is meticulously carved like a scroll painting, making people feel like they are in the 18th century, but they don’t feel like they are in another era. The realism of this film made me feel an inexplicable fear of the future.
View more about Barry Lyndon reviews
