It was for the actor Andrew. In the struggle years, the brightness and hope he once represented were part of the light.
So seeing his silent, sensitive, and gloomy performance in the movie, it seems to see the border of darkness.
The question goes straight to the heart: Is it worth reclaiming his life after a cruel juvenile offender is rehabilitated?
The bright side is shown in the movie: a sensitive and inferior youth, kind, just, sincere, brave, loyal... ready for a new life, but always tortured by conscience.
Maybe we will all have enough empathy to be willing to give him a chance to be human, not to mention that his crime is only in a supporting role. He just lacked love, he just met a partner with a bad nature who was willing to take action for him.
After all, he was only a child.
From the perspective of Boy A, the film depicts the process of rebuilding his life after his release from prison. In fact, if you think about it, you can know how much oppression such a shy and slightly sensitive boy will suffer in prison.
Because concealment is also close to deception, so in the face of love and friendship, it is so shattered in the end.
So does he really deserve to suffer the ending in the story? Is the world too cold, the media is too noisy, and are people too defensive?
All doubts are because such a criminal is also a victim.
But there is also a dark side: offenders after parole repeat offenses repeatedly, because their nature does not change, they endanger others again. Moreover, the family members of the victims of the previous case have not yet recovered from their injuries. Can they helplessly see that the enemy has not received the punishment they deserve?
Can our children, our lovely children, tolerate the wanton acts of lawbreakers?
Can we allow our friends around us to be murderers?
Can we let people who don't respect other people's lives work in their own companies?
Maybe Terry is wrong, people can't completely throw away the past, and people live for the past.
The whole movie is dimly lit, with secrets that Jack can't tell. Finally, when we came to the port by the sea, there was light. At that moment, the whole world knew his secret, and he didn't need to hide it in the slightest. In a way, at that moment, he was free.
Perhaps brutal truth is also a relief.
The loneliness of the whole film is similar to that of "Manchester by the Sea", the same theme of redemption, the same cutting technique intertwined with reality and memory, the same unsolvable reality, and a heavy atmosphere. The difference is that the male protagonist of "The Sea" has completely lost hope, while the boy a once had "fantasies".
But I always believe that between light and darkness, everything is still there.
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