The struggle full of pain is because there is still love for this world.

Jeanne 2022-12-06 06:30:15

He has HATE tattooed on his left hand and LOVE tattooed on his right. It is precisely because I love and hate this world that I have been unable to reconcile with these messes.

"Why are you my friend?"

"Because you're funny, smart, and easy to get along with."

I'm glad that this film is produced in the UK, neither the American style of the usual moral judgment nor the long and sour European perspective. It neither focuses on depicting personal pain nor highlights companionship and love and friendship. It's all the more lovely because of its objective simplicity.

Stuart, a bum, maniac, bad deed, muscular dystrophy, addict, violent, alcoholic, leads a controversial and unpleasant life. Alexander, a middle-class working part-time homeless home, wants to be a writer, and after meeting Stuart, the "problem middle-aged", the two become friends and he decides to write a book for him.

Stuart is always slurring, muttering, and fucking, walking like a slow zombie, and cooking in a rather informal but masterful way. When he wasn't sick, he used to have an innocent hesitant, focused look on his face that was not annoying and didn't separate him from other vicious criminals and hooligans.

When the credits came out, the two of them were eating "Convict Curry" together in Stuart's relief house and laughing together while watching TV, like someone who has been staring at the sun for a long time and closed his eyes You can also see the afterimage of the sun. I'm thinking, it seems that people who are slumped after going through pain or trauma are always the ones who had the greatest fantasies and expectations of the world before that. He madly scolded the system as if it was only hostile to the world, but in fact he was just angry with himself. And his guilt was even more than anger. He regrets that he chose violence instead of making those responsible for his wrongs pay in the right way. When he said this, he hesitated like a child who did something wrong.

He should be very happy to meet Alexander. He never dictates his life, doesn't judge, blame or try to change him. He just spends a lot of time by his side, listening to him, occasionally asking questions, and singing Babybird's "You're Gorgeous" together in the 50 mph car. How rare, such a relationship, I will take you to enjoy the ordinary life of the middle class on a farm that you have never been to, and you can finally lie down after the struggle and pain you have explained to me about your life story: dust to dust, dust to dust Return to the earth, gain peace, and release.

Stuart, you know what. The book that wrote you was secretly placed in the middle of the best-selling bookcase of The Da Vinci Code by Alexander. The you on the cover still looks carefree and extremely cute. you will like it, right? We all thought you'd love it.

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Stuart: A Life Backwards quotes

  • Alexander Masters: If you had to change one thing about your life, what would it be?

    Stuart Shorter: Well, how much is one thing?

  • Stuart Shorter: My name is Psycho but you can call me Stuart if you want.