Half a cigarette for Spike

Kimberly 2022-04-20 09:01:42

The dim bar, flickering lights, the smell of alcohol and tobacco lingering in the air, people with dusty faces with decadent eyes, leather shoes hitting the floor and making a tapping sound, the environment is noisy. The man named Spike took his last puff, half of the cigarette left, but he threw the cigarette butt away and hurried away, I opened my mouth and suddenly wanted to call his name, but I found that I couldn't make a sound, as if I was being suddenly The unplugged electrical appliances froze in place.
Spike left so suddenly and suddenly, before our nerves could react, he had already waved GoodbyeGoodbye, that man was still so handsome when he died. Bishas's sword pierced into his chest, his gun pressed against Bishas' neck, and the air condensed instantly. At this moment, both of them laughed. The smiles were so strange. But that smile gradually faded in the darkness, until the line of sight was pitch black. Betrayal and counterattack, at this time, have deteriorated, everything in the past is quickly intertwined, and the blues music symbol quietly remembers, GoodbyeGoodbye, the dragging voice makes people unable to feel sad.
If you want to talk, you can only be silent in the end, tearing off the disguise of the dull and noisy life, when everything shows the truth, in fact, this is still a story about the past.
Many years ago, Spike and Julia met in the cemetery, and they met in the cemetery alive. After many years, they met again, and they both fell under the gun. At the end, the camera slowly rose, and we saw a blue sky. I don't know what Spike's final expression was, maybe he would still say in a lazy voice, "It's over, it's over at last, and fell asleep like this, feeling a little comfortable, with a smile on the corner of his mouth at that time.
I don't know why Julia didn't leave with Spike that year, and when they met again, Julia said, I should have killed you in the first place. Spike was silent, the tenderness and cruelty of the past tore the seal to reveal the brutal truth. It is rumored that Spike's right eye can see through a person's past, but what can happen even if he sees it, the past is in the past after all, and it cannot be changed. In the end, it's just self-deception, only joy and pain, temporarily sealed in the right eye.
Spike buries the past and wanders the universe until he meets Fay. I could never tell what kind of relationship he had with Fei. They were used to intrigue and quarrels, but they always stood up for each other at critical moments. Either the hero saves the beauty or the beauty saves the hero, when Spike left Bebop, Fay stood in front of Spike and hoped that he would not leave. At that time, Spike said the longest and last paragraph since they met. talk. In the past, now, alive and dead, there are people in this world who voluntarily take the road of death. When survival cannot provide evidence of living, the roadside is already full of blood-stained flowers.
Spike left in search of a reason to live. There are no clichés like "live well for the people you love". Spike went to the dead place resolutely, and Fei fired three shots in his back. Then leaned against the door and cried repressedly. Tears can't save Spike. In the end, we don't know what position Fei holds in his heart. Perhaps, everything in the universe is just a piece of dust in his eyes.
There is no emotional entanglement that is constantly being rationalized and chaotic, only the ambiguousness and cruelty of Spike and Fei. After all, "Cowboy Bebop" is not a second-rate romance drama. In the end, it is still a story about the past.
Fei remembered her past, the fountain with the lion's body and the fish tail, the bright blue sky, the shadows of the teachers laughing and laughing in the classroom, and reappearing in Fei's memory, Fei returned to the earth, running and watching in the busy memories. in ruins. Fei looked at the remnants of the setting sun, and suddenly shouted, "I have a place of my own," and then fell into sadness in the swamp of past memories.
In fact, what if the past is found, the past is the past after all, and all that remains is emptiness and loneliness, and only impetuousness and hustle and bustle can fill the void in my heart. Ed and Aihua left in the sunset, Jet was inexplicably wiping the railing, helpless for everything that happened, and Fei could only use her own crying to cover up her sadness.
Spike has been floating in the universe for so many years, nothing more than to forget his past, but in the end he still cannot escape the word fate. Women, friends, guns, eyes, roses, knives, to the final fragmentation, the pendulum of time, stop, continue, stop, continue, forever telling countless stories.
Spike just left, perhaps only death is the best ending, at least not to be entangled by the past. I remember in EVA, Katsuragi Misato once said that only those who have a strong will to live can survive, and for those who have forgotten life and death, death is the best ending.
People always die. In the anime, the law of the protagonist's immortality has long been overturned, but when I looked directly at Spike's death, I couldn't help but feel depressed. Depressed, it is also the feeling you should have watching "Cowboy Bebop".
In the end, the cigarette drew a beautiful arc in the air and fell to the ground, extinguishing instantly.

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Cowboy Bebop quotes

  • Jet Black: Betrayal may come easily to women, but men live by iron-clad codes of honor.

    Faye Valentine: You really believe that?

    Jet Black: I'm trying to, real hard.

  • Spike Spiegel: [muffled by bandages] You sing off-key.

    [Faye gets mad, then decks Spike offscreen]

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