No movie review: Stuart's death conveys a sense of desperation: he doesn't feel like he can get rid of the demon in his head - the one he's brought in since he fought back his bullies with violence; he's filled his life with bad things And felt ashamed and feared their continuation; not having good family, listening, or trusting around him had been tormenting him along the way. Well, he chose to terminate through death. Health has been exhausted, life is running out. So, save yourself some pain. Leaving aside for a moment whether death is really what people think it is, and everything goes back to zero. Suppose so. Is there a better possibility for Stuart to go on living? He said that "there are many people who had similar experiences with me when they were young, and they are living well now, but I'm not that strong." Is it so heavy that life cannot continue at all? How does life go on until he has finished telling the life he wants to tell? Alcohol, inertia, survival instinct, caring people, companions...why can't we continue after the talk? With the help of Alexander, perhaps for the first time, I could see my past clearly, taste the inner harmony brought by good deeds in participating in a good protest, and meet Alexander as a friend and experience a good place to live... Thus caught in a war with himself and the past. Also, a muscle-wasting body doesn't last long.
Imagine when Stuart took a moment's notice from his war with himself. Also accept the fact that you will not live long because of the pain. Ask yourself: I didn't participate in the protests, I didn't make friends with Alexander so I didn't see myself so clearly, I didn't realize that "not all middle classes are bastards", I didn't meet the rescue of the two sentenced people, just took those things off Is a life or a life more worth living with those things?
Stuart has a short time to live now due to his deteriorating health. Even if there is still a lot of pain to suffer, but with a much better chance of creating happiness than ever before, would you be willing to go on with your life?
A more exaggerated and simplified statement: a person has lived 70% of his life, in which there is 99.5% pain and 0.5% happiness. Now there is still 30%: if you live according to the habits of life, you will be 90% painful and 10% happy. But there is an opportunity to increase happiness to 45% with no upper limit to happiness, and the remaining 55% can only be pain but no lower limit anyway. Is it still worth living?
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