The protagonist is actually Nobody

Rosario 2022-03-21 09:03:04

Brexit may not be the best choice, but at least it is a struggle, but is it your struggle? When any major event occurs, there are people who profit. The saddest thing is that most people think that they are on the side of profit. In fact, they have no choice at all.

The most real and interesting part of the whole film is a small interview with each of the two factions. Those who have the ability to care about themselves are often the loudest. In the interviews of the Remainers, everyone only cares about their future. When the representatives of this group of voters argue and fight, they do not realize that it will affect their future. It is a group of people who have been forgotten. However, the most terrifying thing about this film is that this group of people who have been forgotten and suddenly appeared, their situation and their choices have refreshed the lower limit of other people's social cognition, making them realize that their life is still It could become worse, scarier, and even more uncertain, and you could be reduced to nobody like them, nobody needed. The two interviews of the two factions are in stark contrast, on one side is the clamor and debate between different classes and different skin colors, and the other side is the indifference of the Nobody who cares about them. One is intense, one is quiet, one is arguing, and one is lifeless. In the eyes of the former, only to find out when they finally reacted, the latter was like a giant black hole, pulling them into a zone of destruction together. And for the latter, I don't care anyway, no one cares about me, Brexit or whatever, maybe it would be better if it could cause some changes? Anyway, this is my choice, the world has not needed me for a long time. The confrontation between the two started as early as decades ago, and no one can stop it. Thinking about every bottom-up fate, isn't it so smooth and silent at the beginning?

The silent beginning is the real beginning. Just like the economy, when a major collapse comes, it is always the time when the competition for capital is the most intense. The ancients said that XX cannot be educated, but can only be eliminated, but this time, I am afraid that no one knows if they are XX, because you cannot quit this game, and you have never even looked at the people who eliminated you.

Someone asked the protagonist's motive for Brexit? My opinion is: It's interesting! What if this kind of thing happens? Excited to think about it. The protagonist fully understands the routine of his opponent and his own people, and also fully knows that the other party doesn't care about him at all. For such a person who claims to be superior in IQ but is not well-received by others, he still has to do something that can prove that he is arrogant and can fight in one go. Everyone slaps, is there anything more exciting about the possibility of making history? If you look closely, the protagonist, like the people he interviews, is nobody, nobody needs it, nobody cares, that's why he can hear the "voice" because they are the same person. But why can't I hear it again in the end? Look at the image of Cuan Fu in it, bald, viper, natural superiority, difficult to cooperate, all the people who deal with him, even his younger brother, is there anything worse than him? Apart from his wife and upcoming child, who else needs him? However, like everyone else, he never expected that the outcome of this interesting thing would exceed everyone's expectations, take back control, who is taking back? who take control ? control what ?

As a Brexiteer, he never thought about which side he was on. By which side I mean the social dimension, not the political dimension. It wasn't until the whole thing was completely out of everyone's control (at least in the movie) that he realized that he wasn't either, he was just Nobody. So, when everyone was celebrating the victory, he packed up and left silently, and no one noticed that he disappeared. Even the people from the big data company never talked to him. Isn't this Nobody? He was not needed again, and this time, more thoroughly.

So I think, in the end, I should add a scene where he goes home to see his wife and the child in his womb. This may be his only hope.

In the end, the film was so messed up that the characters were magical for the sake of Cumford's style, while making everyone else too stupid.

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Extended Reading

Brexit quotes

  • Dominic Cummings: [scene cuts between the two offices of Vote Leave and Vote Remain as they write out strategy] We also know that the other side are gonna run a campaign the way that campaigns have been run for pretty much the last 70 years. They're gonna fight from the center, and they're gonna make it about jobs and the economy.

    Andrew Cooper: We focus on the economy and jobs. The message: leaving risks both.

    Craig Oliver: Clinton '92. Best campaign ever. "It's the economy, stupid".

    Andrew Cooper: You define your opponent as the riskier option, and though the change candidate might initially poll well, come election day the nerves kick in. Voters revert back to center. Law of political science - if the status quo are ahead before the campaign begins, which we are, they always win on the day. So...

    Douglas Carswell: So, what's our answer?

    Dominic Cummings: Tzu's "The Art of War". If we fight them on home terrain, they will win. So what we need to do is lead them to the ninth battlefield. The deadly ground where no one expects to find themselves. Outcome? *They* perish.

    Victoria Woodcock: Which means?

    Dominic Cummings: You reverse the proposition. We make *them* the risky option. To stay is to risk losing more of the things we cherish - we're asking voters not to reject the status quo, but to return to it, to independence. How much does it cost us each week to be members of the EU?

    Daniel Hannan: In the region of...

    Dominic Cummings: What's our researcher's name?

    Matthew Elliott: Richard.

    Dominic Cummings: Ricardo, will you get me all the figures up for how much it costs to be members of the EU for a week? Largest one wins.

    Matthew Elliott: Make sure it's verifiable!

  • Dominic Cummings: It's not rocket science, it's simple. There are three types of voter. Those certain to vote to exit, that's one third. Well, they're in the bag, so ignore them. Those certain to vote to stay, that's another third, and we can't touch them so fuck 'em. The last third: "I would like to leave, but I'm worried about what the effect will be to jobs and living standards". *These* are the only people that we need to care about. And trust me, the others will be after exactly the same bunch.

    [cut to Vote Remain offices]

    Craig Oliver: Now, these are who will decide the result. The "Hearts versus Heads" and the "Disengaged Middle". 34% of the electorate.