This is a good story, a good movie.
Stuart is undoubtedly the center of the story. When you first meet him, you will find this person weird, even a bit annoying, just as Alexander felt when he first met him. He is a homeless tramp, and his words are chaotic and hoarse, and it will make you wonder if he is simply playing up his own misery, because the "black smoke" sounds very abstract and unreal.
Someone listened carefully.
There are two points in the film that touched me a lot. The first one was that Stuart asked Alexander why he was so interested in homeless people. Alexander replied that if he was only interested in homeless people, he wouldn’t be so always. Mangled with him, he regarded Stuart as a friend.
The second is that before Stuart went to attend his sister's wedding, Alexander asked him if you could change one thing, what would you like to change. Stuart didn't answer at first. He felt that this would make people push all the responsibility to one thing. Later, at Alexander's insistence, Stuart replied that it was the day when he knew the power of violence.
After this, the story will be truly presented. The tragedies that people thought were fake and used to attract attention are actually true, even though they sound very untrue.
After experiencing all this, Stuart's heart was filled with hatred, fear, and confusion, but he did not push all the responsibility to those who hurt him. He is more likely to be puzzled by how he embarked on such a path, making himself so miserable.
He could have said openly that all this was not his responsibility. It was other people and society that made him like this, but he did not. When he recalled the past, Stuart blamed him for being exposed to violence. And choose to use violence to solve everything.
His heart shrank from the trembling little boy when he was 11 years old. He was afraid and painful, but he didn’t want to use violence to solve it. He was still full of all human things. He was not just a kind or a painful person. Tuyat is complicated, as complicated as what he has experienced.
And all this is not what Stuart himself wants. Maybe what he wants is for someone to listen to him carefully, to have a friend, and to have a simple and normal life.
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