Hugo made a great circle, and when he came to Sunset Square, it was already eleven o'clock, and he estimated that he was at least half an hour behind Ernst, but he walked up the familiar and unfamiliar path, and in the distance Hugo saw Ernst's stumbling back. This made Hugo stunned, and subconsciously wanted to take a step to catch up, but after only two steps, his pace slowed down, and then he stood in place.

Ernst's emerging figure stretched out under the cream-colored street lamp, and the cold moonlight was cathartic, outlining a silver edge on his neat and clean black suit, which looked solemn. Ernst's steps were slow, so slow that he was almost moving, leaning on his crutches as if he were dodging the ants that were busy on the ground. However, Ernst did not look pitiful at all, on the contrary, his back was straight, his steps were slow but steady, and even his right hand, which supported his crutches, did not tremble at all, and he looked like an old man who was just walking.

However, looking at Ernst's back, Hugo couldn't help but feel a sour nose, because on the narrow staircase, he was the only one walking slowly, and the noise of the sunset square not far behind him seemed to have completely disappeared, and here was another world that had been isolated, quiet, serene, and slow...... But lonely. Ernst was alone.

Hugo has always been a man who is afraid of loneliness, he longs for his friends, the band, the crew, and life. This is Hugo's weakness, he always takes his friends too seriously, always takes a "love" word too seriously, even if he walks independently, the deep concern in his heart is still his source of motivation.

However, Ernst has only one person, and he doesn't even have a person to care about in his heart, and the only thing that accompanies him is the script. Hugo didn't know how Ernst persevered, but he knew that this was his bottom line and his dignity.

Grumpy, angry, rusty, withdrawn...... These were Ernst's umbrellas, and he carefully concealed his inner loneliness and concern. Alone in the boring life to move on.

Looking at Ernst in front of him, Hugo had mixed feelings in his heart, and he didn't know what to say, or even what mentality to use to face him. Suddenly, Ernst's footsteps stopped, and he stood stiffly in place, as it turned out that he had reached the landing at the top of the staircase, and a few steps further was where the door of the apartment was. Ernst stood still, adjusting his breathing, and he stopped, as if time and space had stood still.

A light flashed through Hugo's mind, and he knew that what Ernst needed was not sympathy, let alone pity, because Ernst never felt that he was weak, and he did not need these negative feelings; What Ernst needed was recognition, passion, a renewed passion in the depths of his heart. Hugo thought of the script.

When Hugo met Ernst last year, he was inspired to think of a script, but then he entered into a long tour of "Stormy", and he did not continue to develop the framework of the script. But now, Hugo's mind is surging again, why can't he create a script? A script based on Ernst? Not necessarily realistic, but a script inspired by Ernst?

He can write the story of a screenwriter – or an author who has had a great time, who has climbed to the top of his career, but then fell to the bottom......

No, that's too cliché, and it's too gloomy. Hugo looked at Ernst's back and thought to him a bold opposite, maybe he could write a comedy script, not only because of Ernst, but also because of himself, he could write a light-hearted story to interpret the old man in front of him.

Well, the author should still be at the peak of his career, and he can create all kinds of ...... Love story - romantic love, but in fact, he himself is a very obnoxious guy. He speaks ill words, always habitually attacking others with vicious words, even at the expense of tearing off the scars of others, but not because he is in nature, but because he ...... Because he doesn't know how to get along with others, he is used to telling the truth, telling the truth, and speaking in the vernacular, he doesn't know how to be humorous, he doesn't know how to be polite, and he doesn't know how to socialize, so it is often easy to hurt each other between words, so that he begins to reject socialization and refuse to integrate into society.

But what was the beginning of it all?

This writer is a difficult person to serve, and he has ...... Obsessive-compulsive disorder, as well as a severe cleanliness habit, which he has no way to control.

He had to keep everything neatly arranged in a certain order, he had to sanitize his hands at all times - the first time one soap and the second soap and only once, he had to lock the door five times in a row and unlock it five times in a row, he had to avoid any lines and checks when he walked - so the brick path was a fatal wound, he had to use the utensils he had brought with him when eating, he followed a strict menu every time he ordered, he refused to have any physical contact with strangers - including shaking hands, He has to sit in a fixed position, he has severe allergies and is extremely sensitive to any hair......

It is precisely because of his uncontrollable obsessive-compulsive disorder that he is not only difficult to serve, but even more difficult to get along with, and he seems to have an ability - the ability to easily anger anyone around him, but at the same time because of these obsessive-compulsive disorders make a lot of helpless jokes - involuntary situations.

To the outside, he was a super difficult eccentric to serve, and so annoying that he could easily make anyone hate him within three minutes of seeing him. But in fact, this is also something he can't control, and occasionally he hates himself, but he still can't change these habits.

It was precisely because the people around him could not understand and did not want to understand him that he gradually began to be alienated from the crowd, became more and more withdrawn, and after being withdrawn, he became more and more unaware of how to deal with people...... As a result, a vicious circle is formed, and he becomes more and more lonely and troublesome, even if he is always convincing himself, "Let me be alone, it will be more convenient and happier for me to live alone." "He always faces life with a smile, but no one can see what he really thinks in his heart.

Although in the distant future, there are really many works with such a disgusting personality as the protagonist, and the TV series "The Big Bang Theory" is one of the examples, which has gained a large number of fans; But in fact, there are still not many works of this genre, let alone in 1997.

On the one hand, it uses a annoying guy as the protagonist, making it difficult for the audience to have a sense of substitution; On the one hand, it is also because in the current social situation, people's understanding of mental illnesses such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and delusional disorder is still not comprehensive and in-depth.

People are always accustomed to use their position to reject, reject, hate and even blame such people. Therefore, this puts forward stricter requirements for the deep heritage of the script, and it is absolutely impossible to challenge to tell such a nasty personality in an acceptable and even likable way. not only requires the screenwriter to be able to explain the personality of the protagonist clearly, but not too deliberate and sensational; At the same time, the screenwriter is also required to integrate the storyline, skillfully combine the protagonist's inner fragility with the story, and truly sublimate the theme of the story, not just "vulgar comedy".

This is a difficult task for Hugo, because his screenwriting work so far is only one "before sunrise" - he never takes the nomination of "The Shawshank Redemption" seriously, and Hugo has too many deficiencies in the framework construction, detail polishing, rhythm control and other aspects of the script story, so it is actually very difficult for Hugo to master such a script.

It was a difficult challenge to have a nuisance man as the main character, and Hugo also wanted to write a comedy that was almost a black hole for screenwriters - it is always more difficult to make people laugh than to bring tears to them, and more importantly, Hugo also wanted to use Ernst as a prototype to tell a story that was true and not exaggerated, and through which he wanted to be able to tell something really about something, something that made sense. It's almost like finding yourself in a big problem that you can't solve.

So, what exactly does Hugo want to tell in this script? What about the lonely heart of the annoying male protagonist? It sounds like the setting of a Colombian soap opera.

Perhaps, everyone has their own paranoia in their hearts, and has been trying to pursue perfection, but on this path, there will always be all kinds of obstacles - from life and fate, and everyone has no qualification to criticize others, because in fact, everyone's heart is the same, the pursuit of perfection has led to irreparable defects. So, everyone is also lonely, because no one can understand the loneliness to talk to, even the weirdest annoyance, he is looking forward to the day when someone will tolerate his quirks and his paranoia, and accompany him to watch the magnificence of the sunset.

Perhaps, it's not that we are unwilling to change, but we haven't met a person who is enough to tolerate ourselves and change ourselves. Therefore, we are still tirelessly pursuing perfection, not our own perfection, but the other half who makes ourselves perfect.

"You make me want to be a better man."

At the end of the staircase, Ernst took another step, alone, his lonely back disappeared little by little at the end of the dark sight, Hugo still just stood quietly, raised his head and looked at the familiar position on the second floor, waiting quietly, waiting for the lamp to slowly turn on, the hazy halo dispelled the darkness, like a firefly in the dark night, trying to light up the world with a faint light, but the power was too small.