Character & Story development breakdown
Leon’s kindness is very introverted, hidden in the heart, “don’t kill women, don’t touch children” is his inner kindness as a killer, he will also show a crazy expression when a person goes to see romantic movies, until the appearance of the little girl Matilda just let his inner kindness gradually appear.Leon is imperceptibly infected with Matilda. The killer is a scary and daunting career, but Matilda does the opposite way as a cool career, which is the beginning when she gradually walks into Leon and changes him.He was no longer a killer character the second time he met Matilda as a neighbor, to comfort Matilda, he put on the kitchen pig gloves to make the girl funny.He began to think that Matilda was a threatening presence and almost shot her, and he finally compromised to give his gentle kindness and took Matilda in.He taught Matilda to learn to use guns without being innocent, and he would learn to write and rushed forward when Matilda was in danger.
(2) Cold athy withdrawn gradually changed
In the continuous relationship with Matilda, Leon’s aloof and withdrawn personality gradually changed, like ice heart by Matilda quietly melted, he needed help but carefully handed her tissue, he and Matilda play role-playing game, showing a lovely cheerful side, guess the happy smile, wearing costume even look stupid, laughing and Matilda of his age, now he shed all the shackles and camouflage.Anthony, an old friend that he has worked with for many years, also realized that he is slowly changing, no longer as aloof and withdrawn as in the past, and a sense of “strangers do not enter” has become human.
Leon’s character becomes kind and tender because Matilda’s presence brings him to his buried gentle kindness.The moment when he opened the door when Matilda asked him for help also meant the end of his killer career.The killer was a scary and daunting career, but Matilda thought it a cool career, a beginning when she walked into Leon and opened him, and the night he slept with Matilda transformed his character.The girl broke into his world and changed his life.In the film, the killer Leon is also from a person who does everything to be vigilant to others because Matilda gradually learned how to trust others, to communicate between heart and heart.In this city, there will be more or less people like Leon with lonely souls, perhaps he lives around us, by the depressed time and space transformation of the city to the bleak corner of the heart.But Leon is undoubtedly lucky to redeem the path of his soul in Matilda’s firm conviction.Leon’s cherished plants are root, Matilda will grow up, she will have her own life, but Leon will take root in her heart forever.