Shelley wrote in his Book to the Irish People: "The poor obey the rich and are helpless to the rich; the rich command the poor and do no good to the poor." It would be much better if they could be persuaded that they would all live as brothers as equals – they would be happy in the end. But such a thing can never be achieved today or tomorrow; such a change, while very promising, is extremely difficult to achieve. ”
The protagonist of Cardboard Boxer is a street homeless man who makes a living by scavenging and begging, a character who is often overlooked by ordinary people and can be seen everywhere on the streets of the city. They are difficult to approach and difficult to be understood, just like the "sharp brothers" who were once very popular in China.
"Scrap Cardboard Boxer" highlights the loneliness of the wanderer and relies on the protagonist Willie to support the entire film. With no friends, Willie lives in a cardboard box in a slum, rising from sunrise to search for discarded food on the bustling city streets, standing on a fixed street corner holding a begging card to get some change.
By chance, Willie picks up a diary of a girl who has lost her mother in the trash, and from the diary he reads the heart of a young girl who is just as lonely as him. Willie was eager to talk to the girl, to save the girl who had been abused by her stepfather, to dissolve the loneliness, so he began to write letters, pouring out his inner loneliness.
Letters to the maidens were thrown into the corners of the city by Willie in a paper airplane, and he knew he could not deliver them, but loneliness seemed to fly away with the letters... Finally, Willy, who sent away the lonely and open-minded, met pinky, a veteran who had lost his legs, and he regarded Pink as the girl who desperately needed his rescue, and through the heart-to-heart exchanges between them, Willie had friends for the first time in his wandering life.
In the city there was another group of people, who were the masters of the city, who claimed to be Roman aristocrats, and whose physical or spiritual needs could no longer be met by material stimulation, so they went to the slums and let the tramps beat each other, and the winner could get 50 dollars. Willie's fists were so powerful that he became the king of the tramps and a friend of the "Roman nobility".
Willie's world is very simple, who gives him money is the master, the only difference between them and slaves is that they have not lost the freedom of life, but without money, where does freedom begin? Like the slaves' struggle against the Roman nobility, a very fortuitous incident caused Willie to lose the trust of the Roman nobility, and the angry nobles burned his treasured diary...
The next story is very warm and beautiful, perhaps the director deliberately designed such a hopeful ending, awakening the audience's truest and most kind compassion!