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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The Commuter quotes

  • Alex Murphy: Mike, I get it. You wanna do the noble thing here. But I got news for you. There ain't no such thing as noble.

    Michael MacCauley: [glancing at Prynne] It was you.

    Alex Murphy: What are you talking about?

    Michael MacCauley: You called me. You knew about the witness. You... you knew what they saw.

    Alex Murphy: Yeah, I told you what happened.

    Michael MacCauley: It was a cop who killed him. You set me up.

  • Sofia: Ricky was a city planner, and some nights he would have to work late, so I-I would go to his office to finish my homework. I was waiting for Ricky by the elevator when these two men show up. I didn't see their faces, but they were looking for Ricky. I hid 'cause I didn't wanna get him in trouble. But they wanted something from him. Then all of them start yelling, and I hear this noise. They were hurting him. I could hear him screaming. And he tells them that he doesn't have it, that it's back at his place.

    Michael MacCauley: You took it.

    Sofia: Of course I took it. I wanted to help. And then I look through the doorway and I see this guy. He's holding Ricky, and he hits him, and he says something about being noble.

    Michael MacCauley: Noble?

    Sofia: He says that doing the right thing will get you killed, and that there's no such thing as being noble. And then, they just... I didn't... I didn't know what to do. I...

    Michael MacCauley: I know.

    Sofia: I just took it, and... and I ran.

    Michael MacCauley: Why didn't you call the police?

    Sofia: I couldn't call the police. The men who killed him were cops.