【Sometimes I think I am the child of Devil. I let the Devil in. Now I can't get him out. I tried, burning him out, or cutting him out. He said "No no." Why should he? He don't want to be homeless.]
Writer Alexander is the foreman of a maintenance care center During the protest, he met the homeless Stuart, and decided to write an autobiography for him to let more people know about the life of homeless people. Stuart proposes that Alexander use flashbacks to write about his life, what made him so violent and so angry.
At the beginning of the film, a flashback was actually used, so that the audience quickly learned that the man named Stuart had passed away. There are also pictures of Stuart's childhood in the middle. When the audience learns the final truth, they can only marvel at how much foreshadowing those pictures contain.
In a sequential way, when Stuart was nine years old, his brother and his brother's companions began to sexually abuse him for three years and he decided to leave the house and go to a juvenile detention center, but the guardians of the juvenile detention center also sexually abused him. sexual abuse. And in childhood, it was his stepfather who exposed him to violence and taught him that violence can make a person 50 times stronger. From then on, the anger in his heart made him embark on the road of crime and slowly became out of control.
When the film is nearing the end, when Stuart tells Alexander the whole truth, the audience finally understands why he wants to hurt others and hurt himself. He just wanted to expel that demon in his heart, and he thought that violence could solve the problem. But in the end, he still hurt himself. Alexander asked him which thing in his life he wanted to change, and Stuart said, Why am I want to change one thing? It's very easy to blame, isn't it? If he really wanted to say which thing, Stuart chose The day I discover violence, the day my stepfather made him realize it.
It was this society that let him know that if he didn't become violent, he would be bullied forever. So he complained about the system, thinking it was the system's fault. But for middle-class people like Alexander, what he sees is the system helping Stuart out of medical bills.
If you want to continue to explore whose fault homeless is, that may not be the point of the film. This true story just wants us to know and care more about this group of helpless people who are on the fringes of society. Like Stuart's grandma said, He deserves a book.
They deserve more than this.
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