As for Barry, I believe that people who have seen the movie have mixed feelings just like me. Rather than sympathy or contempt, it is better to see myself in it. Some people say that the bravest thing is to see the world clearly and still love it. In fact, the truth of the world is originally a false proposition. I have always felt that my three views have been refreshed after my work. After seeing so many bizarre things, I am still unsure and unwilling to conclude that this is the true face of this world. But I think it's brave to be able to tell a story of a lifetime with an ordinary, mediocre person as the protagonist. Because at some point, we may believe that our whole life is nothing more than that.
We are not the heroes of the historical stories, not the big characters on the big screen. We used to be poor, innocent, happy, happy, believing in simple and pure beauty. As a result, he was deceived and disliked, and was forced to leave the country. We are affectionate, hypocritical and slightly cunning by nature, good at seizing opportunities. We have also been lucky enough to be greedy, selfish, unscrupulous for the sake of power and interests, and get carried away with fame and fortune. We hurt others, and we can't hear the criticism around us. We are not smart enough, nor knowledgeable enough, and we have enjoyed the joy of family for several years. Fate played a big joke and made us lose the most important thing. Then, whether it is self-defeating or karmic retribution, the wife is crazy, and the stepson seeks revenge. We started to believe in fate, whether it was kindness or something self-defeating, we actually let go of our young challenger (stepson) who broke our leg. So, with only the company of our mother, we finally embarked on the road back to our hometown after losing everything.
It is said that Kubrick is a director who is unwilling to start small, but wants to portray the universal problems of mankind. In his impression, he always wanted to take pictures of Napoleon. Napoleon had a life of ups and downs, and Barry Lyndon actually did it, but Napoleon was famous for the ages, and Barry Lyndon was just an anonymous person. But no matter the great man or the mediocre, it is just a life of ups and downs. Looking at a person from the perspective of life, it is inevitable to be sad when the curtain ends. Compared to time and the universe, the individual is really insignificant.
Even so, even if we are the one who pushes the stone up the mountain, we have to keep going and keep pursuing it. For individuals, whether it is tossing or accepting fate, existence is the meaning of existence.
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