The penultimate season devoted an entire episode to the past of Matt, David, and Tilly. A person's place is the stack of its pasts, and these pasts are like a riddle: I only tell you what happened to them and their past, and these things are like an undercurrent and their present (before the escape). - after the jailbreak) is connected, I show the details, and the cause and effect of it is for the audience to connect.
When Matt and David were in the jungle, Matt was clearly a drag bottle. On the one hand, it was the reason for his older physical strength, and on the other hand, the more important thing was that his heart had collapsed after things did not develop according to the original plan. People often have a thirst for knowledge before they collapse. This is the logic in the movie "people who are aiming at the gun still want to know why, let me die and understand, who asked you to kill me". Matt's thirst for knowledge is that in this flight, he knows that he is completely useless and that David will betray him. His "tests" deepened as the escape grew increasingly anxious and hope for life waned. He drank heavily on the run, watched TV on satellite TV, told the story of his 12-year-old pony (everything good about his humanity was taken away with that horse from that day onwards), and finally even in When the siren is blaring, it makes a noise to pick strawberries to eat, and it is obviously impossible to do something like robbing a police car. This is Matt's first characteristic, a self-sacrificing test of whether David will leave him when he is dying and loses hope.
Matt's second characteristic is that he never treats himself badly. When he was in prison, he used a thermos cup to drink water. After taking the prison guard's drink, he also poured the wine into his thermos cup and then drank it. , When in the jungle, he drank alcohol and picked strawberries to eat. Even when the police surrounded him at the last moment, he did not try his best to hold back his cough. For ordinary people, it is a routine to endure and suppress himself. For Matt, this is unnecessary, so he subconsciously did not endure his cough even in such a dangerous situation. When David was on the verge of getting angry with Matt, Matt said to David: You always suppress your anger, and that's how people get cancer. And the fact is that David is a normal person at this point, and it is exactly what Matt believes about this point and indulges himself that he does things like hacksaws that ordinary criminals don't do, and he is released. his anger. This can even explain why he didn't resist and ran when he was finally caught, almost without a hitch, because he never treated himself badly, and he would either be beaten into a sieve or run very tired.
Combining the second characteristic and the third characteristic can see what kind of personality traits Matt is. The third characteristic is that he is a person who understands art, and he is good at drawing. What Matt did in the jungle was not just because he wanted to test his comrades to figure out one thing when they were dying, and the fact that he never treated himself badly and repressed himself that he couldn't run away, and The third point is the way he sees things. He doesn't care about the conditions of reality, he doesn't adjust himself because of changes in reality, but only cares about the realization of his ideal goal. Just like the process of painting a painting, you won't change your painting because of some mistakes. What, he's a perfectionist. Not only is one not only unwilling to treat himself badly (would rather hurt and take advantage of others), but also a creator as a result. That's why even if he didn't do anything, David could escape with him, because David only had the ability to survive in the wild and the business ability of digging holes, but not the ability to dream. There is no plan or idea of a jailbreak, but Matt has. To create space where there is no space, be a prophet or a poet. Matt loves to draw, so he created this ideal space and put it into practice. And perfectionist dreamers will fall into nothingness once they know that things are not going according to their expectations (the story of Bimat kidnapping his old boss, and finally discovering that he has no money). He is unwilling and impossible to adjust and change himself according to the actual plan of things. So when Tilly's car didn't come to pick him up, he already knew he was done, his heart completely shattered to pieces, and he started a walking corpse escape, only to grab some straws in his last thoughts, testing and relying on his companion David , or miss his pony and draw it before he dies. But David was not like this. David’s heart of actively fleeing was full of hope. The essence of what he believed to be reality was that everything was full of uncertainty. As long as he adjusted it himself, he could still get a good result.
As for why David didn't kill or get rid of Matt, maybe it can also be found from his past. In the recollection, although it is not explicitly stated, it can be seen that David may have been sold by his companions. His mate shot the patrolman and then forced Matt to drive over the deceased patrolman to prove accomplice or loyalty. But in the end it may be that his accomplices uniformly confessed that David killed the patrolman. Therefore, after David met Matt (used by Matt) in prison, especially after a lot of conspiracy to escape from prison, he was reluctant to be a person who sold others.
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