There are two seemingly distinct lives in the film, the depraved life of an addict and the real life of an ordinary person. But, in fact, the real life is not much nobler than the fallen life, the only difference is that the real life is normal, that is, most people live in it and are recognized.
The protagonist, Mark, switches between two lives, but what he gets in the end is depravity. Mark's first state is a depraved life. The movie doesn't tell us why Mark takes drugs, but what we know with common sense is that taking drugs means rebelling against reality. Mark said, "Choose a life, choose a job, choose a career, choose a family. Choose a fucking big TV. Choose a washing machine, a car, a laser recorder, an electric can opener. Choose a healthy, low-calorie, low-sugar. Choose a fixed Interest rate home loan. Choose a starting point, choose a friend, choose a tracksuit and a suitcase. Choose a fucking three-piece suit... Choose a DIY, on a Sunday morning, don't fucking figure out who you are. Choose to watch on the couch Absolutely boring show, stuffing junk food in your mouth. Choose to rot to death, and only the selfish kid made of your sperm to replace you. Choose your future, your life. But why should I do this? I choose Don't live, I choose other. Reason? No reason. As long as there is heroin, what reason is there?" From this we understand that what Mark is fighting against is a vulgar, hypocritical, blind life, and what he desires is platonic real, authentic, self-fulfilling life. However, in reality, Mark can't achieve such a good wish, and neither can any of us. We chose to live in such a life, and Mark chose to face his heart. We can say that Mark's choice to take drugs is a sign of depravity, but I think it is a manifestation of his bravery, sincerity, and thorough resistance. Perhaps, we should also say that Mark had a good relationship with his three partners when he was on drugs.
After the fall, Mark quit drugs and started his normal life. What is there in Mark's normal life? The intrigue in the real estate company that Mark began to like, the eager desire to release after the drug addiction recedes, and finally Mark's sentence expresses the true meaning of normal life, the civilization of England is in Gao is nothing but an inferior nation ruled by the rotten second child.
Mark must have regretted the decision to make the switch. He couldn't bear to have sex with a 14-year-old girl, and he couldn't bear to be treated differently by mean and perverted men. So, he chose to fall again. The depravity this time was more thorough than the first, not only depravity, but also drug trafficking and robbery. But on this depraved surface we can sense his impending transformation, especially when he expresses his betrayal of friends to Shiba, and this feeling is confirmed.
Mark finally completes the fourth transformation, which is once again from depravity to normality. This time, he knew what a friend meant. In the past, Mark's most common sentence was, "But they are my buddies." This time, he finally understood what buddies meant. He understood the true meaning of normal life, that is, "You ask me why, I can find 10,000 reasons, but none of them are because I am a badass in my bones." Yes, ordinary people are bad guys, Mark hates bad guys and doesn't want to be a bad guy, so he chose to take drugs, he chose to quit drugs, and he chose to take drugs again. Finally, he understood that it is impossible for people not to become bad guys, so he had no choice but to become a bad guy. , that is, to be a normal person.
Mark finally became a normal person, but we saw that Mark who pursued truth, dared to face his own heart, and dared to resist disappeared. Mark finally chose to live a normal life with the 1,200 pounds. At the same time, he also chose to completely degenerate. It's just that we fell from the beginning, and it took Mark three struggles to understand that the fall was inevitable, how stupid he was compared to us.
Mark's experience confirms what I said at the beginning, that choice is a superfluous word for life, because life has no choice.
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