regret is life

Raphaelle 2022-10-14 10:22:26

This tavern has life.

Its hundred years have witnessed the changes of times, the change of presidents, the precariousness and rapid development of New York, all kinds of life and death and the exaggerated drama of Easter. More importantly, it gives life to Horace and Pete.

I dragged the climax of the whole show to the last episode, Sylvia's scream - "No!"

At first I was confused and thought Pete had taken his own life after stopping the drug. The ending later echoes what Horace once said "Pete never hurt anyone before, but not anymore". Pete ended the tavern's life.

That was my happiest moment. He unleashed all the anger and anxiety I had built up for Pete in previous episodes. I repeat in my heart: Yes! Finally! Finally he punishes all those bad guys who treated him like shit.

What followed was a great loss.

A person grows up helpless, rules and actively lives under the control full of violence and indifference. It wasn't until he was over half a hundred years old, after going through mental torture and wind and rain, that he met his biological father and learned that the truth behind abandoning himself was because he "doesn't like kids."

I could imagine, but couldn't understand how lonely Pete was. No one in this world loves him, even if he is the one who deserves to be loved the most.

Of course, this pub has brought us more than a little regret. Everyone who came to the tavern, said something that contained all kinds of regrets. Regret is life.

Life is regret.

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Horace and Pete quotes

  • Pete: I said I have a good memory, not that I have good memories.

  • Rhonda: I have been around long enough to know that men can only make two contributions to my life. They can lift things and they can fuck. I don't want to know you. I don't want to date you. I don't want to move in with you. I don't want to meet your mama. Fuck me... move my furniture.

    Horace: Where do you want it?