He has never changed, it's just a more obvious difference between a heavier degree and a lighter degree, which is more subtle.
Combining the beautiful speech at the beginning and the mirror monologue at the end, I found that this character seemed to have become open-minded and relieved in the end, and occasionally came up with some wise one-liners to reconcile with his younger brother. But on a closer look, his witty wit is still attack, sarcasm, and self-pity.
In the end, there was still a red cloth flying in front of this brave bull, and he was still dueling in the bullring with red eyes. It's just that the way of the duel is more obscure, the strength is no longer enough to hurt anyone, only exhaustion is left, and under pressure, I have to bluff and use ridicule to maintain the last dignity. Only Death was left to give him the final blow.
He didn't become open-minded, he just wrapped his cynicism in "wisdom quips." All that's left is to live to live, not to cheer and be grateful for life.
This way of writing fatalism always feels a bit verbose and too heavy. The main shortcoming of extreme "self-righteousness" is expressed in multiple variants. But the sense of climbing the peak is handled lightly (the protagonist's success has always been easy, almost entirely due to talent and desire). It seems that the protagonist has not actually made any changes along the way, but sometimes he is forced to succumb to desire/impulse to temporarily suppress his anger. Like a [speculator].
His successes and failures stem from his own conditions: multiple talents + multiple character flaws. He hasn't made much effort all the time, and his fate has conferred various forms of success + various forms of failure. In the end, he was still a stubborn [speculator]. (Perhaps this kind of unchanging protagonist is boring, so it is difficult to keep 2h attention. I always feel that something is missing. Maybe the usual redemptive thinking has become the inertia of the movie. I always hope that he can understand something in the end. He didn't understand anything he didn't want to understand. The director said behind the scenes: Look, this guy deserves to live like this. … a little… uh… not tasteful)
(The director's original intention may be to say: If life is unsatisfactory, don't always see that others are sorry for yourself, it is others' fault, you must reflect more on yourself, and reflect on yourself more. Otherwise, you will always live in purgatory of anger without knowing it...) (But it's amazing The thing is, in the director's incident, it also shows: the concubine can't do it...)
Uh……
This kind of discomfort is too strong, and maybe no one wants to completely succumb to fatalism, and any effort is useless... This concept. We all hope that suffering can teach us something, and that changing it can make life better. If fate is an unchangeable fate engraved in genes, it is really hopeless... (If you are born with a good character, you deserve a good life; if you are born with a flawed character, you will lose everything if you occasionally draw a good card. You are not happy in your life. It has been decided at birth. The liberation of black people, the liberation of women, and the change of fate by knowledge... Are social reforms and scientific research all illusions?)
In this film, truth is compared to the number 0, and self-knowledge is compared to 1. Every time you succeed, especially your failure, people know more about themselves and get closer to the truth through reflection. But one beat makes self-knowledge become 0.5, the second beat becomes 0.2, and it is getting closer and closer to 0, but after 0.1, there are still 0.05, 0.01, 0.001... Individuals born as the center of their own small universe cannot reach 0 after all. This film shows that.
[Finally fall into agnosticism - you don't know if you know you know or don't know. 】
Angry bulls cannot resist the temptation to announce, because when you think you have let go of your anger, but whether you have actually let go, it is unknown...
(Can't let the protagonist meet this villain? Face-to-face pk? Can't force the protagonist to show that he still chooses to deceive himself in the face of the truth "Zoom", "Autumn Sonata", "Perfume (Fiction Edition)" ...or completely wake up to "Red Desert" and "Midnight Cowboy"...) (I haven't reached the limit yet, and I can't draw a conclusion yet. The protagonist can still maintain the status quo by virtue of his cleverness and small price. The charm of this movie. Because most people probably won't encounter that absolute predicament that completely derails before the end of their lives...)
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It has to be said that it is exactly the same as "Taxi Driver". Both protagonists are people who are angry in the society, and the targets of their attacks are also meaningless or seemingly reasonable and meaningful (random) bullfighting red cloths, but one eventually "lost" and the other became a "hero". In fact, they are all the same coin trapped in their own narrow perspective and cannot be freed. (As if to say: Dude, do you really see what it is that makes you miserable and angry? Do you really see yourself? Is the thing in your head really right?)
"Driver" is more straightforward; "Bull" is a bit ambiguous, perhaps too close to life and too real, bringing too much personal emotion into it.
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