old horse

Antonette 2022-10-21 02:05:44

When a storm hits, one can only see what a person is. ——

Alexander Dumas

After reading it, I really feel sad for the old horse, and also sad for all the middle class~

60 years old, 10 years of insurance, the company is going to transform, one sentence: thank you for your work, bye bye! Then I can only pat the butt and leave, sad!

On the train commuting to and from get off work, the woman said that she found a person named "Pulan" who was paid 100,000 US dollars, but she didn't get the last penny for her hard work, sad!

I was betrayed by my most trusted colleague, almost causing my wife and children to be kidnapped, sad!

In fact, there is no real villain in the film, not the corrupt officials, not the mysterious woman, not the colleague of Lao Ma.

Through Lao Ma, what the film actually wants to express is a deeper kind of sadness: he knows he has been tricked, but he can't even find a specific object. Lao Ma is designed from beginning to end, he is like a A chess piece is placed here and there, whether this piece can be captured or who is captured, no one cares, because the player who plays chess is not a specific person at all!

Some storms form naturally, while others are man-made. In the jungle of reinforced concrete, the test is not only the survival of the fittest, but also the human nature.

At the end of the film, when the commuters on the train stood up one by one and said "I am Pulan" without fear of death. People are all infected by old horses and can't be saved.

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Extended Reading

The Commuter quotes

  • Michael MacCauley: So, I heard something earlier today, a hypothetical question.

    Tony: Uh-huh. What was the question?

    Michael MacCauley: What if someone asked you to do one little thing, something that's meaningless to you, but would affect another passenger on this train? Would you do it?

    Tony: I don't know. What's in it for me?

    Michael MacCauley: $100,000.

    Tony: Absolutely!

    Michael MacCauley: You don't even know what it is.

    Tony: It doesn't matter. Come on.

    Jackson: So, what is that one little thing?

    Michael MacCauley: A passenger on this train doesn't belong. They're carrying a bag, but you don't know what it looks like. All you have to do is find them before they get off.

    Tony: That's it? It's not much to go on, Mike.

    Michael MacCauley: Tell me about it.

    Jackson: And what happens when you find 'em?

    Michael MacCauley: They die. Hypothetically.

    Tony: So what would you do, Mike?

    Michael MacCauley: I'd get all the people left on the train in one car, propose that very scenario.

    Tony: No, no, no, no, no. I mean, would you take the money?

    Michael MacCauley: You know what? I already did.

  • Tony: Hey, Mike, what happened to the guy with the guitar?

    Michael MacCauley: He got off.

    [Tony looks around, confused, knowing the train is just pulling into the station]