At the end of the fifth season, the dark and dead drug factory Lao Bai finally touched the cold experimental equipment, with a deep and playful smile, and finally collapsed in the chemistry laboratory. It was chemistry that made him. , but also chemistry ruined him.
But before Lao Bai falls, if you turn the time back a little bit, you will find that every drug-related person in the play has fallen down one by one. There is no exception for drug partners to themselves. Except for him - Jesse Pinkman.
Why? Why keep such a hairy boy who is doing things for others from beginning to end in the play and never understands what he needs as the only person in the world who knows all this? Obviously, all this may have a unique answer in Lao Bai's heart.
When Lao Bai first played with Jesse, who was playing with his female classmates in class, he probably thought that this was just another abandoned youth who was irresponsible to himself. But at that time, Lao Bai was cowardly and unwilling. After Lao Bai discovered the secret of Jesse's drug making, he couldn't bear the stubbornness of his heart and ran to force cooperation to make drugs, and selflessly shared the magical exclusive secret recipe. Perhaps at that time, Lao Bai began to find something similar to him in Jesse: the desire for money is sometimes exuberant and sometimes depressed, cowardly but stubborn. At the same time, he found youth and vitality in Jesse. Jesse, whom he met at this time, helped Lao Bai, who was in a middle-aged crisis with a lot of family affairs, find a sense of belonging and hope in this young man, and in the follow-up story, this undoubtedly aroused the unique love in Lao Bai's heart, a unique love. Affection.
As the protagonist, Lao Bai participates in the development of every plot in the series, and changes step by step with the development. And Lao Bai's only witness, Jesse, in the film seems to express the young and rebellious but kind side of Lao Bai's heart. Old Bai is becoming cunning and far-sighted step by step, from a timid and cowardly middle school teacher to a cold-blooded drug lord. Pressure, all of this change is finally seen by Jesse. However, Jesse in the series does not seem to be as varied as Lao Bai. He walks between his own desires and kindness with his own confusion and confusion from beginning to end. Lao Bai is the father of two children, but in the end it seems that Jesse loves and cherishes the children more than Lao Bai. After hijacking the train in the desert, he denounced the killing of innocent teenagers. It is the belief that he implements. Although there is no wisdom, it is always kind. Old Bai's constant transformation and Jesse's implementation are the same, just like the constant negotiation between the devil and the angel. In the end, it seems that Lao Bai is the devil, while Jesse is kind like an angel.
Seeing the comments, there are always people who say that Jesse's existence is too shallow to see the various contents expressed behind the profound character turning. But perhaps it was this simple young man who reflected the intricacies of the old man and the society.
So, we go back to the original question, why on earth did Old White leave this person alive, watching Jesse with that moving and regretful smile as he drove his car through the fence to freedom. It is probably the unique love in the heart of Lao Bai mentioned above. This love essentially stems from Lao Bai's discovery of the kindness he once had in Jesse's heart, which allows Lao Bai to subtly establish a guardianship of the remaining kindness between the two. I think that in the days when Lao Bai was isolated from the world, he finally compromised with the world. He no longer longed for any life, but only wanted the rest of his family to be safe, and the bargaining chip for this compromise was Pinkman. , he compromised with life, just for the last kindness in Pinkman's heart to be able to freely gallop in this beautiful world that he can't enjoy himself.
I believe that Lao Bai still had a lot of regrets in his heart when he died, but that undisguised smile also expressed how happy he was when he saw Pinkman who had gone far away. Pinkman is actually the kind-hearted, hopeful, and fighting spirited old Bai at the beginning. His departure represents hope, the last repentance in Lao Bai's heart for himself, and the last beauty of Lao Bai's self-salvation.
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