Follow up post :
I don't understand how some people hate/dont like Phillip, when he is in fact a realistic character. A person who behaves on outwardly moralistic goals while deep within behaving from a standpoint of rather selfish desires + a sort of sadness and rage from the loss of his possible girlfriend and mentor, possibly translating to the sort of selfishness to ask more people to fight for him + possibly fueled by self sacrificial guilt ( survivors guilt ) And of course along with the tiredness of fighting the same fight back to back and losing people again, then being dropped into Oswald's Distorting Extravaganza, then being shown visions of his worst fears come to life before him, and spoken from the perspective of people he just lost, like he's obviously struggling and being pushed to his brink again and again, he himself hasn't done anything wrong and has acted in the direction of what he has assumed or understood at the time would be the right thing to do. Phillip is a shadow, a reflection of all of us, and in truth he should simply be a cautionary tale of the horrors of the world.
This is also further exemplified by what Roland says upon witnessing Phillip transform into the crying children.
He expresses empathy and says that Phillip most likely just feels cornered at this point, and it's once again just a showcase/reflection of how we feel when we don't know what do, and a concentration of the sort of helplessness which we all experience sometime, somewhen in our lives.
