Have you ever existed or heard of such a person around you, eating, drinking, gambling and gambling, idle every day, mean and vicious, although not a big adultery, but definitely not a person that neighbors like. No matter what social environment such a person is placed in, he will be scornfully shouted behind his back.
The protagonist Vincent in the movie "St. Vincent" to be shared today is such a person, which is a typical American "old leper", a stripper who drinks, gambles on horses, prostitutes and gets pregnant, occasionally leads a sheep to do something, the financial aspect is a mess, and the numbers in the bank accounts of people in their sixties and seventies are still negative. His residence was the dirtiest of the surrounding neighbors, a deserted garden lawn that was out of place with the surroundings.
Until one day, a mother and son moved in next door, and the mother had just experienced a divorce and worked overtime every day to raise the child alone Oliver. Oliver became somewhat introverted and sensitive after experiencing the storm of his parents' divorce, coupled with being bullied at the new school because of the relationship between transfer students, and his relationship with his mother at home became tense. In the end, the mother was not allowed to say that the child was entrusted to the neighbor's old leper Vincent, of course, not free of charge, and needed to pay Vincent a "nanny fee", and Vincent was responsible for taking care of Oliver for a period of time after school.
So a depraved old leper and an introverted and sensitive child have a wonderful chemistry because of the inevitable relationship. At this time, the plot will feel familiar, and in the same way as the plot of many "adult + child" movies, the old leper Vincent slowly influences the introverted and sensitive Oliver through his own way. He took Oliver to the racecourse to gamble on horses, drove around after winning money, took him to a bar, saw Oliver's classmates, taught him to fight, and then generously accepted Oliver's mother's remuneration. A shameless bastard who is rotten to the point of completeness, he inadvertently accompanied Oliver in the loneliest and sadst period of his life.
But it is such a shameless bastard who is undisguised even in front of the child, with an old wife who has lived in a high-end nursing home for eight years, but the wife has long been unrecognizable to Vincent because of Alzheimer's disease, he has to visit and wash his wife's clothes every week for eight years, even if he has to pretend to be a doctor to complete, perhaps only in front of his beloved wife "old leper" Vincent wants to present himself, even if at this time he does not have a penny in his account.
It was then that I discovered that Vincent's story had just begun, that the prodigal son was a perfect husband under the guise of a man of greatness, and that even the worst rotten man had his good side. But finally after the death of his wife, the prodigal son could not hold on any longer, and the threatening letter of debt collection became the last straw that overwhelmed the camel, and he was admitted to the hospital because of the stroke.
The title of the film is "Saint Vincent" which is quite joking, because most of the Vincent in the film is an old leper. The film tells the story of Vincent from different angles, but oliver's speech at school is the most brilliant. In the film, Oliver selects a "saint" around him to complete school assignments, and he naturally elects Vincent, who narrates from the perspective of a child that Vincent does good or bad things as things that the "saints" will do that are difficult to refute.
At the end of the story, it should be beautiful, Vincent has gained another kind of family warmth under the care of everyone. This is probably the happiest ending of this kind of old man and child movie, in fact, if you carefully review it, you will find that at the end of the film, when Vincent is bored listening to music on the recliner with a headset, Vincent is still the same Vincent, and the "saint" in Oliver's eyes is actually still the old leper.
Saints and rotten people are actually mortals.