Castle Rock Episode 7 Checkmate reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. The male protagonist, Billy, is abducted by aliens. Time is not a straight line for him, but exists simultaneously. He can exist simultaneously in the past, present, future, and loop forever. But because the past, present, and future have all happened or will happen, Billy is at every point in time like a passive watcher, or a puppeteer reciting a script already written and unable to make any changes, and Billy It seems that he can't control which point in time his thoughts will travel to in the next moment.
I believe the same thing happened to Ruth for various reasons. The whole side story Ruth is an old image (except for the young Ruth and young Henry in a short flash), which can prove that Ruth's mind (old state) has returned to the past, and his body is still the young self.
I think the whole side story is about Ruth at a very critical moment, because the time was pressing to find an answer to "where is the bullet" and forced himself to think, and in the process finally broke through the stereotype and gradually realized that he was no longer living in the The facts of straight-line time. When Alan accompanied Ruth to see the doctor, Alan lovingly told the doctor that Ruth's brain is bigger than Ohio? Ruth smiled and said "but it is sick". It shows that at that moment Ruth, as an ordinary person, accepted that he was gradually suffering from Alzheimer's disease. No one has the imagination to say I live in the miserable Stephan King universe, hahaha. But at the end, Ruth wakes up and embraces the fact that time is no longer a straight line for him. That's why she didn't feel overly grief-stricken after she accidentally killed her lover. Instead, she went to take a bath with relief as if she had realized something, and dressed herself up like a girl in love. Because at that moment she had realized that the Alan he loved was alive forever. When the "past" is the "present", the lover does not live in the memory but really lives in the "present". That's why Ruth cherished Alan after his awakening, and hugged him affectionately and said the words of never leaving me again.
I think Ruth's dead pastor husband, that is, the physical carrier of evil existence, can also travel through various times. But since Alan and Ruth didn't really come together until after his death, the priest himself couldn't see that part of the time. He can only see the past, present and future that he himself has experienced. For example, the priest wasn't there when Alan was teaching Ruth the coin-hiding trick, so he didn't see through Ruth's trick of hiding the pills between his fingers. But because the evil was reborn on the young "Fourth Sister", the pastor's timeline was extended. That meant that this extended period of time also indirectly became the future of Ruth's dead pastor husband. So he hated Alan when he stared at Ruth and Alan in the church. So when he went to buy a gun, he would say something like "I will protect my own family and not rely on police officers to protect". It took him decades to set up an inning and finally closed the net this evening.
From buying a gun---hiding bullets---telling Ruth the number of the safe---knowing that Ruth would assassinate him and accepting it---then deliberately concealing his injury from Alan after he was covered in blood--- Induce Alan to think that Ruth was injured and hurried to Ruth's hiding garage - which eventually led to Ruth killing Alan by mistake. "Fourth Sister" The evil existence never kills directly, but uses chaos to take lives.
The whole episode progressed layer by layer, and finally reached a tragic climax. Another sad and sweet ending after the climax. Best episode of the entire season in my opinion! !
Isn't this person who doesn't shoot directly but uses chaos to kill and especially likes the abilities of children very familiar? I boldly guess that the fourth sister, the evil existence, is the source of all the chaos in the Stephan King universe, the ultimate Boss da of the Dark Tower---Randall flagg. So this wonderful side story is still a super big alarm sounding spoiler! ! !
Are you still saying this sideshow is boring?
Off topic: West World or Castle Rock. The most outstanding are the side stories outside the main line of the story, which is also quite surprising. And those of us who live in straight time and can only go back to the past through unreliable memories should cherish every second opportunity to have a lover in front of us!
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