After watching this video, I believe that everyone is a little sad and sighed. Then look at the title A Perfect World, how ironic this is, the film is full of irony from the title. Philip lives carefully under the supervision of his mother, but he is trusted and respected when he is kidnapped by a ferocious fugitive. He feels happy and free; the governor "changes his face" to take pictures in front of the media when comforting Philip's mother; smiles brightly in friendly shops The waiter, the motivation for their smiles is the $20 bonus; the fugitive is a hero in the film, and the cops chasing him are a wretched and incompetent image.
The protagonist Butch is a person with psychological problems. When they escaped from prison, Butch insisted on stealing a Ford car, which should be some kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Butch also has an "Oedipus plot", he lived with his mother since he was a child, he killed a man because the man was going to hurt his mother, and when he was at the black farm worker Mike's house, Mike showed a kind of tyranny The image of the tyrant father, which caused Butch's gaffe, he bordered on madness. The little boy Philip has no father to accompany him since he was a child, only his mother takes care of them. This mother is a bit domineering and restricts their behavior. Philip is afraid and dissatisfied with his mother's actions, and there is an "Elektra plot" in his heart. During the escape he and Butch developed a delicate father-son relationship, and he regarded Butch as his father, so when Butch had an affair with the female restaurant owner, he disrupted it.
What I don't understand is why Butch has such deep feelings for Philip. I think this is where the movie is a bit rash, because Philip was in the same situation as him when he was a child, and he helped Philip at the same time as his own redemption?
Butch killed Terry, the second person he killed, the first because he wanted to hurt his mother, and Terry because he wanted to hurt Philip. In Butch's heart, Philip's status has been as important as his mother's. After being shot and wounded by Philip, Butch could no longer escape. What awaited him was prison or even capital punishment, but Butch was not angry, but endured the pain to find Philip, just wanting to explain and reconcile with Philip.
Butch is a man of conscience, he commits crimes because he thinks those actions don't touch his bottom line, Philip stole the ghost costume, and Butch told him that stealing is wrong, but sometimes it's okay. Especially if you depend on stealing to survive. A criminal like Butch was created by Sheriff Red Garnett, who was influenced by Garnett to influence the judge for stealing a car when he was a child and sentenced him to a juvenile prison. It's an unfair sentence, but Garnett believes he did it for Butch's sake. "There, he learned how to be a criminal."
There is a social problem involved here. Are all criminals wicked and without conscience? Criminals are people too, they have humanity, but what makes them criminals?
Butch acted as a father along the way, he cared for Philip, and most importantly, gave him respect and liberated his nature. He knew what Philip needed most because he had been through it. Butch is undoubtedly a good father, he let Philip get what he longed for, butch has never forgotten his father, it can be said that it is a strange love. His purpose of escape is also to go to Alaska. When Butch wanted to give that postcard to Philip, it marked him as Philip's father.
Philip is fortunate to have such a father, and at the same time his misfortune lies in witnessing the death of his "father", and what kind of trauma it has left on his heart, the "just" side never wants to understand. They rescued the hostages, killed the criminals, and knew nothing else, they lived in what they thought was a perfect world.
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