You are a good person

Chesley 2022-03-24 09:02:56

You're a good man

, it's a pity you killed people.

In my impression, there seems to be a line of dialogue with this meaning in many, many police and criminal films, criminal investigation films and other works of art related to crime. Usually, the police, detectives or lawyers speak to prisoners who have gradually become hopeless at this time.

The police solved the case, the detective solved the mystery, and the lawyer closed the case and received a considerable fee. The good man who has made mistakes is left, silently enduring the darkness that hits him. Before this, good people may not even be remembered by their names. The other good and bad men stood behind him, pointed at him, and said how the murderer was, and the thief was.

So, when Jack touched his new name printed on the purse that Michelle gave him, the fragile boy who was about to collapse at any moment almost burst into tears.

Because our name may be just a code name for us, but for him, or the other boy a, it is a new life, a huge surprise to be re-accepted.

But it is still a pity, you have killed people.
Just as you can't hide this fact from your own heart, you can't hide it from other people's eyes, let alone their cold, curious minds like the camera lens they carry.

So, the newspaper and TV who once praised you, the friend who once saved people with you, the lover who loved you and let you know how wonderful it is to love others, the mentor who meticulously helped you adapt to your new life, just stand by to the other side away from you.

It's not that they want to do it, it's just that there is no way, no way to force themselves to ignore their inner indifference, fear, worry and despair.
Aren't you the same?
Even if it is friendship, love, honor, discipline in various ways and hope that you will forget your inner voice, don't you still compromise with your inner demon?

Maybe I think that Jack, before the dark scene at the end of the movie, probably won't turn a deaf ear to his inner voice.

You're a good man
, it's a pity you killed people

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Boy A quotes

  • Michelle: [showing her breasts posing for Jack's photograph] What?

    Jack Burridge: [laughing] You're fucking nuts. Carry on. Keep going! Keep going! Keep going!

  • Michelle: [about Jack's local hero news in the paper] Hey hero! Look what I've got!

    Jack Burridge: [embarrassed] Horrible, horrible.