Actually, it’s not about dreams, it’s not about justice, and it’s not an anti-inspirational story of little people.
The title of the film has already given a footnote that it doesn't matter whether the assassinated Jesse is a hero, what matters is that Robert is a coward.
No matter what Jesse does, whether suspicious or violent, robbing or hiding from the police, it is his own choice.
And no matter what Robert does, he has no choice.
He's collected a bunch of comic strips about Jesse that he doesn't know actually has nothing to do with him. He followed Jesse's ass, he didn't know he could stop and turn around and do something else. He thought he had shot a great man bravely, and others would applaud him. He didn't know that Jesse chose to unload his weapon and sacrifice his back at that time, but he had no choice in fear. Gun raised.
Robert's life is tied up by everything about Jesse. He stood in the distance and looked at the halo of this hero, running thousands of horses in his heart to chase each other, but it seemed that he would never get there. He's lived in the word "Jesse" all his life, led by an image outside him that doesn't even exist, and he didn't realize it until after Jesse died.
Can, but must not, is power. The reason why Jesse is an adult and Robert is just a coward is because the former has the power to dominate himself and the latter doesn't. A person who hasn't grown up, no matter how amazing things he does, can't be a hero, right?
I often want to tell you that to be an independent person is not about ability, but a matter of attitude. I stubbornly think that mine cannot be separated from you, and yours cannot be separated from me, it is not the same thing. No one is really inseparable from others, I just don't have that choice, maybe I won't make that choice in my life. And you seem to be relying on me without a choice, relying on the various things and emotions around you. Even when you want to leave me, you seem to want to leave me without a choice, and you don't know that you may be able to avoid it.
Likewise, you don't have to die for a pair of bracelets, and you don't have to stay in bed without eating.
Looking back, I'm pretty sure I was a coward too. I was immersed in the sad atmosphere of the sentence "I don't deserve it?" in "Stan", unable to extricate myself, writing a long book with tears in my eyes, and humblely creating an atmosphere of "the whole world owes me". At the time I hopelessly loved "Stan" and thought the Grammys gave it because it resonated so deeply with us.
After a long absence, when I heard this song again, I felt a lot of emotion, just like after watching this movie. But the love for it has long been two different emotions. I jumped out of who I was and came to understand that Eminem didn't write this song to resonate with lowly fans, but to save them.
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