There are so many choices in people's life, and the moment we make up our minds, they have changed our life. The movie keeps rewatching moments like if Monty would have washed his hands a few months ago, if he had betrayed his accomplices, if he had pulled the trigger on his betrayal.
It's something he didn't do.
If Monty hadn't gone down the drug road, if he hadn't met his girlfriend, if he hadn't rescued the dog.
This is what he did.
Monty spent the last twenty-four hours constantly reflecting on the choices he had made. He said he shouldn't be greedy about making another money, but he also said that saving his dog was the best thing he'd ever done in his life. Each of us will reflect like this, thinking about what if if if; but the pressure before going to prison has forced him to face his entire life so far: wrong, starting from a certain insignificant deviation, and where he goes from now on. Every step is going astray, is leading to such an ending.
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Saw such a word today: "Hiraeth". The explanation for it is: "Nostalgia for a home that cannot be returned or that did not exist."
Hiraeth.
This is both nostalgia for the "home" that cannot be returned, and nostalgia for the past that cannot be returned.
In this life, once we make the first choice, there is no turning back.
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“This life came so close to never happen.”
To love life. This kind of life almost doesn't exist anymore.
Such a life could hardly exist.
There are thousands of cause and effect behind the accident, and the world is entangled in it, no one can see it clearly, and no one can escape. The past that did not happen will not happen, and the future that did not happen will not happen. Monty wouldn't run away, his education, the people he met, his character, his ideas, his thoughts, all determined that he wouldn't run away. The "so close" my father imagined was actually a distance of tens of thousands of miles.
They knew that, and they knew it well when they were driving straight to the finish line.
Twenty-four hours have passed, and the twenty-fifth hour has arrived. You have to keep going, you can't go back.
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Another: One of my favorite places in the film.
The people Monty saw on the way to the prison at the end, the people he had cursed and hated, were smiling at him back then. So just before he stepped into another life, all his past was reconciled to him; they were reconciled.
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