2. There is no normal family or a normal life in the whole film. All adult male characters are in a state of violence, and all female characters are in a state of being hurt, and almost every time they appear, they have expressions of helplessness and tears. The only exception is the assistant at the garbage dump. The others are in extreme situations. People live by selling their meager possessions and are destroyed by alcohol, drugs and debts. Several families wrote about the overall appearance of the British bottom.
3. Arbor is set as a character who is inherently sick and violent. Apart from his illness, his desire for destruction itself is determined by his birth class. For the absolute proletarian, destroying other people's lives and property is the only "get", which can confirm the sense of existence and build up pathological self-esteem.
4. Arbor's friend Swift is a follower character, a little kind and gentle himself. If Arbor’s violence and self-destructive tendencies still have some pathological factors, then Swift is even more tragically a typical ruined by poverty. He may return to school, but in the end he chose to follow Aber under the background of the rejection of the school system, his own exile, and the lack of family education.
5. The society in the film is systematically collapsing. Family parenting, peer education, social discipline, school system, government relief, etc., everything is invalid. The police only appeared twice, once to the Arbor's house for routine inquiries, and once to collect the body. This community and the people in the community are abandoned, both economically and culturally.
6. The horse is the most important symbol of this film. It was beaten by humans, ran without knowing its end, took on the role of coolies, and died silently. In a sense, the horse is a metaphor for the group of human beings in the lower society. Never be able to control his own destiny, with a sad expression drooping down.
7. The boss of the garbage dump may seem vicious, but in fact he eventually became the only one who has the responsibility among all people. He took all the guilt and gave Aber the future and hope. But in such a world, Arbor's future is almost doomed.
8. An established social stratification can flow and change, but that only exists in individual cases. Because of a person's intelligence, luck, hard work, and some external factors, the upper class of society moves downwards or the lower class moves upwards. But looking at it as a whole, the bottom layer will always be the bottom layer, and the top layer will always be the top layer. This is cruel but true. The inequality that people are born with has caused huge differences in knowledge, intelligence, speech and manners, appearance, education, and so on. The bottom people have almost lost any possibility of a comeback.
9. Swift's death was not the worst result, although cruel and extreme. But to a certain extent, the living will face a more hopeless situation. Whether Arbor, his brother or all other low-level creatures, they will linger and enter the next cycle, deriving a creature that is still at the bottom.
10. In this sense, the society and order that everyone builds together is the real "selfish giant."
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