Hugo walked around a long circle and was already eleven o'clock when he arrived at Sunset Square. He estimated that he had been at least half an hour later than Ernst, but he climbed up the familiar and unfamiliar path. From a distance, Hugo saw Ernst's staggering back. This made Hugo stunned and subconsciously wanted to take a step to chase after him, but after only two steps, his steps slowed down and then stood there.

Ernst's hunched figure pulled the elder under the milky yellow street lights, and the cold moonlight vented down, outlining a silver edge on his neat and clean black suit, looking solemn and solemn. Ernst's steps were very slow, so slow that it was almost moving, and he slowly took steps with his crutch, as if he was avoiding the busy ants running on the ground. However, Ernst looked like he was not pitiful at all. On the contrary, his back was straight, his steps were slow but steady, and even his right hand supporting the crutch did not tremble at all. He looked just an old man walking.

However, looking at Ernst's back, Hugo couldn't help but feel sad, because he was the only one walking slowly on the narrow stairs. The noise of Sunset Square not far behind him seemed to have completely disappeared. This is another world isolated, quiet, peaceful, slow... but lonely. Only Ernst was alone.

Hugo has always been a person who is afraid of loneliness. He longs for friends to accompany him. This is the case with the band, the crew, and in life. This is Hugo's weakness. He always values ​​friends too much and always takes the word "love". Even if it is a road of independent walking, the deepest concerns in his heart are still his source of motivation.

However, Ernst had only one person, and there was no object of concern in his heart. The only thing that accompanied him was the script. Hugo didn't know how Ernst persisted, but he knew that this was his bottom line and his dignity.

Irritable, angry, unfamiliar, withdrawn... These are Ernst's protective umbrellas. He carefully concealed his inner loneliness and concern. He continued to move forward alone in the boring life.

Looking at Ernst in front of him, Hugo felt mixed feelings, not knowing what to say, or even what mentality to face him. Suddenly, Ernst stopped, and he stood stiffly in place, because he had already reached the platform at the top of the stairs and walked a few steps forward to the location of the apartment gate. Ernst stood there and adjusted his breathing, and he stopped like that, as if time and space had stopped.

A light suddenly flashed through Hugo's mind. He knew that what Ernst needed was not sympathy, nor pity, because Ernst never felt that he was a weak person, and he did not need these negative feelings; what Ernst needed was identification, passion, and enthusiasm that rekindled deep in his heart. Hugo thought of that script.

After Hugo met Ernst last year, he was inspired and thought of a script inspiration, but then he entered a long tour of "storm and storm", and he did not continue to develop the framework structure of the script. But now, Hugo's thoughts in his mind are surging again. Why can't he create a script? A script based on Ernst? It is not necessarily realistic, but a script developed with Ernst as inspiration?

He can write stories about a screenwriter or an author. This author has experienced incredible glory. He climbed to the peak of his career, but later fell to the bottom...

No, this is too cliché and too dark. Hugo looked at Ernst's back and a bold opposite appeared in his mind. Perhaps he could create a comedy script, not only because of Ernst, but also because of himself, he could write a relaxed and comfortable story to interpret the old man in front of him.

Then, this author should be at the peak of his career. He can create various... Romantic love novels, but in fact, he himself is a very annoying guy. He speaks bad words and is always used to attacking others with vicious words, and even pulls away the other person's scars. But it is not because of his nature, but because... because he doesn't know how to get along with others, he is used to telling the truth, telling the truth, and speaking vernacularly. He does not know how to be humorous, polite, or socializing, so the words often easily hurt the other person, so he begins to reject socializing and refuses to integrate into society.

But, what was the beginning of all this?

This writer is a difficult person to serve. He has... obsessive-compulsive disorder and serious cleanliness, which he cannot control.

He had to make all items neatly arranged in a certain sequence. He had to disinfect his hands at all times. The first time he had to use one soap for the second time. He had to lock the door five times in a row and unlock it five times. He had to avoid any lines and plaids when walking. He had to use the tableware he carried when eating. He followed the strict menu requirements every time he ordered. He refused to have any physical contact with strangers, including handshakes. He had to sit in a fixed position. He had severe allergic symptoms and was particularly sensitive to any hair...

It is precisely because of his uncontrollable obsessive-compulsive disorder that he is not only difficult to serve, but also difficult to get along with. He seems to have the ability to easily anger anyone around him, but at the same time, he also caused many helpless jokes because of these obsessive-compulsive disorders.

In the eyes of others, he is a super difficult weird person, and he is annoying. He can almost easily make anyone hate him within three minutes of seeing him. But in fact, this is also something he cannot control. Sometimes he hates him, but he still has no way to change these habits.

It is precisely because no one around him can understand and does not want to understand him that he gradually began to alienate from the crowd and became more and more withdrawn. After being withdrawn, he became more and more unaware of how to deal with people... In this way, a vicious cycle was formed that could not be solved, so he became more and more lonely and more troublesome. Even if he was always convinced, "It is more convenient and happier to live by myself." He always faced life with a smile, but no one could see the true thoughts in his heart.

Although there are quite a lot of works that are the protagonists with such an annoying personality in the distant future, and the TV series "Big Bang" is one of them, and it has gained a large number of movie fans; in fact, this type of work is still not considered many, let alone in the present in 1997.

On the one hand, it is to use an annoying guy as the protagonist, making it difficult for the audience to feel immersed; on the other hand, it is also because under the current social situation, people's understanding of mental illness such as obsessive-compulsive disorder and paranoia is still not comprehensive enough and in-depth.

People always use their own positions to reject, reject, hate, or even blame such people. Therefore, this puts forward more stringent requirements on the profound heritage of the script. It is absolutely impossible to tell such an annoying personality that is acceptable or even pleasing. Not only is the screenwriter required to explain the protagonist's personality clearly, but it cannot be too deliberate and too sensational; at the same time, it also requires the screenwriter to integrate the plot and cleverly combine the protagonist's inner fragility with the story, so that the theme of the story can be sublimated, rather than just "vulgar comedy".

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

It was originally a difficult challenge to take an annoying man as the protagonist, and Hugo also wanted to write a comedy that was almost a screenwriter, black hole, and it was always more difficult to make people laugh than to make people cry. More importantly, Hugo also wanted to use Ernst as the prototype to tell a real but not exaggerated story. He hoped to really tell something, something that had practical significance through this story. This was almost equivalent to causing himself a big trouble that could not be solved.

So, what exactly does Hugo want to tell this script? What about the loneliness of the protagonist's loathing heart? This sounds like the story setting of a bloody soap opera in Colombia.

Perhaps, everyone has their own paranoia deep in their hearts and has been trying to pursue perfection, but on this road, they always encounter various obstacles from life and fate. Everyone has no qualifications to criticize others, because in fact, everyone is the same deep in their hearts. The pursuit of perfection has led to irreparable defects. Therefore, everyone is also lonely, because no one can understand the loneliness that can be told. Even the weirdest annoying ghost, he is looking forward to one day someone to tolerate his quirks and his paranoia, and accompany him to watch the magnificence of the sunset by his side.

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

"You made me want to be a better man."
Chapter completed!