Apt Pupil

Dusty 2022-10-22 09:30:39

Selected from the second part of the different season of Stephen King, Xia’s
film is permeated with weird and powerful charm from beginning to end, attracting my

author’s ability to excavate the human nature to the extreme, making you have to believe that these characters are in real life. China is indeed real!
It is recommended to read the novel first

from a brilliant talent to a bloodthirsty butcher,
one old and one young. The relationship between the two is that the point of view is that the
author has to admire the author's ability to tap human nature again


(the famous British powerful old actor, "Lord of the Rings" "Gandalf" in "plays the commander of the Baz concentration camp, the Nazi demon, Gut Dushande. I guessed that he should be played when I was reading the novel, but I didn’t expect it to be. Although it was eleven years The previous film, but history is staggered and solidified. The male protagonist is very handsome and talented, but like river pheonix, he died of drugs very early) It

is still recommended to read novels first. Novels are more compact and suspenseful than movies, more bloody and violent. It's more real, and the plots of the novel and the movie are different, especially at the end. Because the things described in the novel are too extreme, especially at the end, the crazy desire and tyrannical side of human nature are like sunspots, and they will be inspired one day or under certain circumstances.
This is why I prefer novels

(the ending of the novel is that Todd used a shotgun to sieve his junior high school class teacher, and then took his father’s shotgun to the mountain and down the highway to shoot and slaughter the cars, and In the summer vacation before this, he had already murdered many innocent and poor homeless people and alcoholics. Just imagine how from a healthy, lively and smart American future leader to become a cold-blooded butcher, people shudder!)


by: Zhang Haoguo

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  • Isaac Weiskopf: When you were a boy, what did you do for fun?

    Dan Richler: Went to the movies. Why, what did you do?

    Isaac Weiskopf: I used to chase girls.

    [they laugh]

    Isaac Weiskopf: And now I chase old men.

  • [Todd knocks on Dussander's door]

    Kurt Dussander: Yes? What do you want?

    Todd Bowden: I...

    Kurt Dussander: If you're selling something, I'm not interested.

    Todd Bowden: I have your newspaper.

    [Dussander opens the door of his porch to take the newspaper]

    Todd Bowden: I'm not selling anything.

    Kurt Dussander: Then what do you want?

    Todd Bowden: If you could let me in for a minute, I just want to talk.

    Kurt Dussander: Talk? I don't have anything to say to you, boy. Good day to you.

    [he shuts the door and turns to go back inside]

    Todd Bowden: [as he speaks, Dussander stops and slowly turns round] Bergen-Belsen, January '43 to June '43. Auschwitz, June '43 to June '44. Then you went to Patin. After that you disappeared, but then in 1965 you were spotted in West Berlin.

    Kurt Dussander: Listen, boy... I don't have time for this game. Now get out of here before I call the police.

    Todd Bowden: Call them if you want. I'm sure they'd love to meet you.