Ideal, Reality and Fate

Crawford 2022-01-27 08:01:03

A road, the left is reality, the right is ideal. We are used to wandering on the left side of the road and finding our way on the right side of the road. However, whether it is to settle down on the left or to venture out in the direction indicated on the right, people are the people in the story after all.
Is this story fate? According to the saying in the movie, fate has nothing to do with a person, fate only has to do with others, it is the expectations and beliefs of others for that person. However, the world is its own after all. What others do to oneself is fundamentally no good to oneself. People always have to carry their own cross and walk on the highway leading to the long night.
Lango's final "awakening", according to the so-called fate, became a legend, but instead it was a compromise to fate. The arrangement of the plot probably also wants to highlight the point of view that "people are people in the story".
I think the so-called story, not fate. People are people in stories, and stories are stories of people.
I don't have much to say about the story. I just hope that one day, I can throw away the so-called stories and the people who wrote them.

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Rango quotes

  • Maybelle: [annoyed] You've got a lot of nerve coming back here, lawman. What is it that you want?

    Rango: [dead serious] Yer pappy and them boys are gonna hang for something they didn't do.

    [pause]

    Rango: But I've got a plan...

  • Rango: [taken aback] Golden guardians... Alabaster chariot... The Spirit of the West!

    [to Spirit]

    Rango: Ahem... excuse me... Mister Spirit... sir?

    Spirit of the West: [eyeing a fish hook] Now there's a beaut. Sometimes you have to dig deep to find what you're looking for.

    [to Rango]

    Spirit of the West: So, you made it.

    Rango: Is this Heaven?

    Spirit of the West: If it were, we'd be eating Pop Tarts with Kim Novak.

    Rango: Yeah, ain't that the truth. What are you doing out here?

    Spirit of the West: Searching... same as you.

    Rango: [downhearted] I don't know what I'm looking for. I don't even know who I am.

    [brighter]

    Rango: They used to call you 'The Man with No Name'.

    Spirit of the West: Nowadays, they have a name for just about everything. Doesn't matter what they call you... it's the deeds that make the man.

    Rango: But my deeds just made everything worse. I'm a fake... a phony. My friends were counting on me. They were looking for some sort of hero.

    Spirit of the West: [emphatic] Then be a hero!

    Rango: [disbelief] Oh, no! No, no. I'm not even supposed to be out here.

    Spirit of the West: That's right. You came out here looking for something that didn't exist. But don't you see?

    [pause]

    Spirit of the West: It's not about you... it's about them.

    Rango: But I can't go back.

    Spirit of the West: Don't think you have a choice, son.

    [draws rectangle on windshield]

    Spirit of the West: No man can walk out of his own story.