Ukiyo-e in Bacheng-Stringer Bell

Those who are gangsters, like Marlo, loyalty like Avon, or Wisdom like Prop Joe, have the iron law of understanding this road in their hearts, and they are different from work. There is no hesitation to choose in the underworld. Right, there will basically never be a day to stand up when you step on it. After Cutty and Avon bid farewell, Avon praised him as a man, because he understood that for gang members who have no knowledge, no education and full of criminal records, they dare to go on the right path and face a life far more than stubbing a person. The trigger is much more difficult. Bodie and Snoop have consistent beliefs, and they are a little bit out of luck. Wallace and Dee made the big taboo of hesitation. They doubted their destined destiny, and their sensitive hearts felt something that shouldn't and couldn't be felt. They wandered in the gray area of ​​good and evil, constantly enduring torture, and finally being destroyed.

Stringer Bell also doubted his fate.

Unlike Dee and Wallace, he is lucky, he has knowledge and loves to learn, he is firm enough in his heart, and he has the ability to kill and make decisions. But he must have never watched "The Godfather" well, or overestimated himself. From the moment he decided to use business and government to cleanse him, he was no longer a member of a gang, but he was not ready to become a businessman. He has forgotten his nature and origin, and that human change is not so easy.

From another point of view, although Stringer Bell prides itself on his knowledge and ability, there are basically no bad habits other than Dee's wife. Although he went to college outside of managing gangs, he tried to acquire useful knowledge and struggled for his own ideas. Although he applied the company's management method to the gang, and even achieved good results.

But everything he excels at is only in the gang.

After Avon was released from prison, Bell showed him the results and expressed his views on the future and Marlo. Avon shouldn't, and just said: Maybe I'm just a gangster.

It's a pity that Bell didn't understand.

And shortly after that, Dee and Clay Davis happened one after another, and doubts began to collide between him and Avon's friendship, leaving rifts.

Until the rooftop scene, it was the second jewel of "The Wire", but it was also sad.

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