Gang members are called good guys in the movie, but everyone is not good guys. Human nature is good at first, and when we grow up, we will always envy the image of S2 and pretending to be compelling. The male protagonist’s road to gangsters has already begun when he was a parking boy. The specific social background created a special freedom of thought, or Paul's influence, but in the end it was his unwillingness to ordinary ambitions. If you don’t want to study, you’ll play truant, like james, and the bartender is 100 green back. The young dreams that he discovered and did after he became an adult are all compatible with each other. In the end of the film, Jim laughs at himself and his drunken life is gone forever. It can be said that he is self-willed and degenerate, but it is not the free flow in his bones.
We admire the desire for freedom, but often lose self-discipline in excessive freedom, and eventually become extra-legal fanatics, like the simple and neat three words in the opening title: good fellow
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