Many parts of this play are hilarious. For example, Stewart drove from Cambridge to London for a full five and a half hours; he asked Alexander in the car what was on his hand, and replied with a nonchalant look "It's a lice"; In Si’s apartment, he put the fried pork slices on the bread, squeezed a lot of tomato sauce, and vigorously pressed another slice of bread on it with his hands; the paper Alexander put on him after spending the night at his house I scratched his eyes and mouth, and scratched him with a cotton swab. Another example is the expression of Alexander when he saw a lice on his hand; after receiving the fork that Si used his mouth to bite, he wiped his clothes and pants on his body. When the meat was put on his mouth, he looked, smelled and licked, but still didn’t dare to eat it. ; After letting Si enter the house for the first time, when he was making tea upstairs, he thought that Si would take the items in the house, rushed downstairs, and kept looking at whether there was anything missing in the house, etc. Looking at many of the previous parts, I have always thought that this is a light comedy, just reflecting the different life and habits of homeless people and middle-class people and so on.
However, when the movie has been moving forward and Stewart's life story has been rewinding, many things from the past have surfaced. What made Stewart wandering on the street, taking drugs, robbery, violent mania, hurting his wife (ex-wife?) and almost killing the neighbor? Was he violent at the beginning, was he mentally sick, or? After reading it, we will understand that it was because of his xing abuse by his elder brother when he was a child, all kinds of abuse he suffered in the children’s home, his classmates beating him violently, and his stepfather forced him to treat those classmates who had no good intentions. When he solved it by himself, he discovered the power of violence...All this changed the original innocent and happy Stewart, but what happened so early, what could he change when he was young? As he himself said, it is not as easy to change himself.
Stewart was finally hit by a train. Was it an accident or suicide? I personally prefer that is a life choice: suicide. He was ashamed and humiliated for the period when he went crazy and beat his wife; he was always immersed in drugs and violence, and he hoped to get rid of them and get free (he said later when he was wearing a suit and preparing to attend his sister’s wedding. He said he wanted to burn them out or cut them off); he was powerless to deal with muscular dystrophy and various sequelae after taking drugs and drugs. Isn't suicide the best way to escape? Perhaps the happiest time in those months was the time with Alexander. During his funeral, other homeless people sang and drank around the cemetery like a carnival. Don’t you think he went to a happier place?
In fact, we don't pay much attention to people like Stewart who we can usually call social rubbish and scum. I always feel that taking drugs and taking drugs is self-inflicted, and it is also appropriate to go to jail with a serious tendency to violence. But after watching Rewind Life, I still have many new feelings and ideas. Everyone’s future is deeply imprinted with his childhood. Perhaps some people are asking for it on their own. But like Stewart, it’s not because he was willing to hope to go to the later stage, but he was pitiful. The sad experience slowly pushed him into the abyss step by step invisibly. He had struggled before but failed to get out of it but fell deeper and deeper, ruining his life and body. In the play, Alexander often talks about Stewart, why is there any dissatisfaction with this government system? Provided him with a free apartment, installed him with a pacemaker worth 5,000 pounds for free (it was absolutely impossible for the heavenly dynasty, especially for a drug addict). In the end, he was charged with murder and other charges. None of them are established. Are there any complaints about this indeed? ? But looking at it conversely, everyone lives in a specific society, a specific period, and a specific system, and Stewart's experience was not produced in such a society or system. You can say that he is a special case, but in fact, are there a minority of children who were abused, bullied, or indoctrinated with violent thoughts in their childhood?
So this is indeed a classic work that reflects social issues. Although it is only talking about such small people, it is still thought-provoking. Don't feel that Stewart is hateful and shameful, watching his flashback of life, sympathizes and heartaches his experience. Because he never intended to hurt others, or do things that hurt others and benefit himself, many times he just couldn't control himself. When I heard Stewart's voice broadcast through the tape at the end, the slightly trembling voice told the past encounters, and I, like Alexander, shed light on my face. It's just that Stewart's life can no longer be repeated!
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