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Let's talk about the differences between Andy and Boris.

Theo's friendship with Andy was warm, comfortable, safe. There were disagreements between them, but just as quickly as their friendship was broken, it was renewed again. They immediately followed up on the old note. Andy represents Apollonian, light, rationality, safety.

Boris, on the other hand, is chaotic, unpredictable, forbidden from a certain point of view. He initiated Theo into a world of desire, a world without rules. Theo was able to be himself because of him. On the other hand, thanks to Boris, he didn't exactly do the best, which proves his addiction and the fate of Fabritius' painting. Boris represents Dionysian, chaos, darkness, unsuppressed will.

Even their appearance suggests this! Andy has porcelain skin, light blonde hair, clear blue eyes, glasses, he looks like a nerd and was super inteligent. Boris has dark curls, almost black crazy eyes, veiny hands, a heroin look, and you can never tell what he's thinking about right now.

Again Donna's little detail.

I just realised something about The Goldfinch movie and book version. In the book there is a part where Theo decides to commit suicide in Amsterdam, but he doesn’t succeed and when he wakes up he almost gives himself away to the police. Then Boris runs through security just to see what is with Theo because he wasn’t answering his calls or text messages. But in the movie they made this scene differently by making Boris come to Theos room while he was unconscious and quickly hoisting him up and basically saving his life.

I think that the movie version wanted to make it more clear that it was actually Boris that saved Theos life because it was very subtle in the book.

Let me elaborate, even though the book version of Theo didn’t die he would have given himself to the police which is Theo still wanting the worst for himself and punishing himself for something that he didn’t have to be punished for. But after Boris came, told him that his painting was safely stored and they had that talk about how sometimes even though you do something good it can do more harm to other people around you than doing what you’d think is bad. And how Boris says that everything he did and does is out of love and he believes that that is the best he can do for himself and people around him. This all meant a lot to Theo and even though I remember him saying that he didn’t want to get philosophical or he wasn’t getting anything of what Boris was saying it really got to him and he might’ve been just pretending not to understand to hide his reaction, but he surely understood everything in his last monologue.

And I just have to say that it is very sweet of Boris that every time when Theo gets in his depressed haze he tries to distract him by telling him stories. For example right after he found Theo in his room and noticed that he looked unwell he started telling him the story about how he got high on weed and that it hit him too hard. Which was very random but it loosened up Theo a little bit. Another thing that I noticed was that Boris was the only one mentioning how badly Theo looked and always trying to go get food with him whenever they were together. Maybe it doesn’t sound so special but considering that not Hobie, Pippa, Kitsey or Mrs. Barbour seemed to care about how badly Theo looked because they didn’t really try to help him or even mention it. Only time Kitsey mentioned Theo’s drug abuse was to say that she knew about it and that she just didn’t mind. So Boris was really the person that cared about Theo the most.

That is why I think Theo didn’t even write a suicide note to Boris, because of all those people he would understand why he did that. He didn’t need an explanation or some sad story of his past. Boris was there with him at his worst moments so there was really nothing left to write. That is why Boris was so caring of Theo he saw how hurt he was and wanted to overcome the worst which was his suicide.

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I had a vision

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You know how everyone is always like "Will will have to be at Mike and El's wedding, you know, so he can tell Mike to say 'I love you' to El"

And you're not wrong. That'd totally happen, but I was thinking and you know who else is in the same situation? Theo fucking Decker. Boris would need to whisper to him at the alter to say the magic words to Pippa.

But their wedding would get ruined anyways. Theo wouldn't go through with it. He'd start crying halfway through, but not happy tears, and point at Boris and yell, "This man! This man is gay and European!"

And then he kisses him on the mouth and they leave.

The end.