Coinstein is a night guard and life is boring. At the beginning of the film, his lonely figure walks through a long unmanned underground passage, riding an unmanned escalator that goes to the black hole from the top, and patrols the unmanned commercial area. When handing over a shift, the phrase "business as usual" is a portrayal of his life. Both the supervisor and colleagues hate him. He has been there for three years and has not made friends. Everyone hopes that he can leave. They mocked him for being a sissy, loathed him, and rejected him. Both strangers and colleagues despise him.
He is indeed different.
He is different from his rough colleagues. His hair is always neatly combed, his beardless face is clean, and his clothes are ironed flat. He rented a basement, the simple basement was tidy and cozy by him, and it became a real room for people. He always looked at this strange world with a touch of sadness and a pair of bewildered eyes.
We sometimes meet such people in our lives. They are left in a place that does not belong to them by fate, they are incompatible with the environment, and with the people around them. It seems that destiny is specifically against them, and they are unable to get rid of this situation. They couldn't go anywhere, so they were trapped there, completely at a loss. It's like a waste with no vitality.
God gave them delicate emotions, kind nature, and at the same time gave them a weak personality and ordinary intelligence. They can feel the pain in life, but they can't express it, nowhere to express it. They can only be trapped in the misty abyss and there is no way to escape.
In the middle of the night, three sturdy-looking homeless men were walking and talking, talking about Maxim George, Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy, Chekov, Pushkin, and Gogol. These people are all geniuses. They are great writers and musicians. Although they are also incompatible with the world and even commit suicide, they are not ordinary by nature, and their incompatibility is a symbol of high style. It seems that these three people were specially sent by God to remind Coinstein’s messengers, telling him that ordinary people should live ordinary people’s lives steadily, not living in endless fantasy, and doing things within their power based on reality. . Coinstein timidly hid in the dark, watching the three tramps go further and further, and seemed even more at a loss.
Coinstein is a kind person. He sympathizes with a dog tied to the side of the road with no water to drink. After being targeted by a female liar thinking that he has gained love, he has increased his courage and dared to ask the wicked for the dog. However, after all, counseling is counseling, and he was beaten with a bruised nose and swollen face. Coinstein is destined to be a loser forever. Sometimes kindness is a kind of weakness, or kindness is an excuse for the weak to cover up weakness. Kindness, innocence, weakness, and sentimentality are all liar's favorite traits, and the liar's sensitive nose can best pursue these flavors.
In fact, even an ordinary person with an ordinary IQ is not so easy to be deceived. As long as he has the general reality check ability, he can distinguish the tricks of a liar. But Coinstein is a fool who lives in fantasy. Maybe he has never experienced victory. He has been despised all his life. This kind of situation is unbearable. So in order to survive, he is himself. Encourage, fantasize about being able to rise above others and become an extraordinary successful person in the near future, in order to balance this unbearable inferiority complex. After being spurned and scorned, he went to the female stall owner of the small food stall and said, I must work hard to start a big company, do you believe it, as long as I need it, my colleagues will follow me. The female stall owner is the only one who treats him equally and is willing to be friends with him, but Coinstein may be aware of her sympathy and unwilling to accept it, perhaps because he has learned a habit of stubbornly living in contempt. But he did not have the courage to bear the kindness. Anyway, Coinstein was unwilling to accept the female stall owner’s kindness, and always refused to accept the warmth from the female stall owner, and even tore up the letter from the female stall owner when he was in jail. Up. He seems to need to maintain a tall image in front of the female stall owner. And feel ashamed of this need.
Maybe Coinstein couldn’t think of any value in his own use. He was unguarded when he poured his true feelings on female scammers. The female scammer used his identity as a night guard to steal the password of the jewelry store, prescribed drugs to him, and stole it with her accomplices. Priceless jewelry. Coinstein pleaded guilty to all the crimes, and after the police released his female liar without evidence and again hid the stolen goods and framed him inside the house, he still insisted that he did it. I would rather go to jail to protect the female liar. You can't think of a person who desperately wants to live in humiliation, how crazy methods will be used to destroy himself, to prove that he is still useful, and to gain a sense of superiority. Maybe he is too nostalgic for this short-term love, although it is false, the comfort is real. He can't face this reality, he would rather live in fantasy.
How strong the low self-esteem is, there is much anticipation for turning over. Coinsstein seems to be fulfilling the Haikou he praised the female stall owner. He went to study company law, and then went to the bank to ask for a loan to start a company. The bank manager ridiculed him as a secondary school student with no longevity and credibility. What kind of loan should he take? He said he pledged himself. The result, of course, was a humiliation and being driven out of the bank gate as a lunatic. After being watched by a liar, he ran to the female stall owner and told the stallholder that he was in love and had a girlfriend. The female stall owner was sad, and Coinstein should know that the female stall owner was interesting to him, maybe he couldn't help but wanted to hurt this woman, just like others hurt him.
Coinstein, who was released from prison, lived in a welfare institution. When faced with the female stall owner who came to see him, he pointed to the clinical homeless man and said that this person is very powerful, and the two of them are going to join forces to do a big business. A little bit of his dignity is based on lies. Coinstein, who was released from prison, worked as a dishwasher in a restaurant. Unfortunately, he met the liar and her accomplices in the restaurant. They used the money he got in jail for food and pleasure. Coinstein looked at the dodging eyes of the female liar, and for the first time he had a sense of value. However, Coinstein didn't know that in the eyes of the tiger, whether you are a kind sheep, a beautiful sheep, or a wise sheep, you are just a sheep. The tiger's greatest compassion for the sheep is to eat his last piece of meat with the bones, and then lick his lips to admire the deliciousness. In this encounter, the liar reported that Coinstein was a thief, causing him to lose his job. Coinstein finally rushed into the crown and took a knife and rushed towards the liar... People who had never won, it was difficult to reverse the defeat. Coinstein was beaten to death by the liar, lying on the ground unable to move. Facing the female stall owner who came to rescue him this time, Coinstein shook her hand.
The twilight light means that there is no light, and after a brief light, it plunges into a deep dark night. Where is the light of Coinstein? Maybe it's death and rebirth.
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