Tormented soul
Remember the story of The Beauty and the Beast? Not the 迪士尼 version, but the old fairy tale, where the kind prince was turned into a hideous beast 由 an evil fairy (sound familiar?). The beast was so ashamed of his life and what he’d become that he shut himself off from the outside world, hoping beyond hope that one 日 someone would look past his evil appearance and see the goodness underneath.
I leave it to 你 to decide which 邪恶力量 characters are paralleled in Beauty and the Beast. My point is that Sam and the beast are really quite similar, though reversed, in a way. Sam’s problem is not physical- not 由 a longshot! Instead, he has a very deep, dark center that shows itself in almost everything he does, and some people have trouble seeing past it to find the good person underneath.
Sam is a fairy tale character. 你 don’t find guys like him in real life. Sam’s had a hard life, and he’s been hurt 由 almost everyone he’s ever cared about, and he used it to help him understand other people’s pain. People who’ve suffered a lifetime of such pain and loneliness usually become abusive, sometimes violent. Sam, however, reached a level of sensitivity and caring that most people in his position don’t reach until after years of good therapy.
Sam is a fascinating collection of contrasts. He’s selfish and he’s sweet and he’s angry and he’s caring and he’s proud and he’s protective- for every bad trait, he has a good trait that shows itself even more. He’s not perfect. He’s nowhere near perfect. But think of it like this- if he was perfect, how much 更多 of a fairy tale would that be?
Full of pain
"I had one job and I screwed it up."
