Ordinary viewers like me will inevitably have such doubts. What we meet is the protagonist who is irreplaceable from the very beginning: this calm and cunning man who stole his watch after beating up the security guard who caught him at the burglary scene. The watch is repeated throughout, reminding us that we are watching a ruthless, unscrupulous man.
This cruelty also creates distance: just as the watch is the spoils of his robbery, we see that in communicating with others, he is also ignorant of the world, and what he shows, what he knows and believes, and even clumsy but effective means of manipulating people's hearts , are "taken" from others. The man's ego is somewhere, but not in front of us; as in the movie that made him laugh: the knight's helmet is knocked off, but his head is not there. Even so, dull minions and lost reporters rely on this man who always wraps himself in the sugar coat of successful learning, and the only person in the play who shows no mercy to the protagonist's eloquent remarks is the foreman who is used to seeing petty theft: " I'm not going to hire a thief to do the work for me." The foreman understands the commonality of evil, and the means of dealing with it are neat and neat; although he is not a righteous man, he knows very well what the protagonist is. He has no ideals, he is extremely realistic; he is a blood-smelling shark, driven entirely by instinct; he is not human.
Ironically, such inhumans are at ease in the night when the truth is ambiguous. It's not the so-called "cunning" or "ruthless" qualities of the character that make us attractive, what makes us empathize is watching how his utilitarian methods succeed step by step, because what we try to believe is such a close causal reality; However, on the other hand, we have also seen what kind of people who strictly practice these. In tight conflict after conflict, darkness gradually prevails, and the story comes to a glorious end after a futile attempt at justice: this ruthless man seems to be on the road to prosperity.
But his victory didn't stop there. This reptile's apparent ambition is still too eye-catching and clumsy (such as his performance when connecting live on TV), it is a borrowed shell, and his true heart is only when he is filming other people's miserable faces again and again. Revealed: Outside of those cameras, we realize that our thirst for news stories implies violent impulses, hostility to different groups, which he shares with "us" and with ordinary people on a far deeper level , is also the biggest irony of this "anti-human" character to human nature.
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