There is a class of people who look decent in the daytime, but are saddened by loneliness at night; they can reveal everything in front of strangers, but wear a mask to those closest to them.
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Brandon is a successful New Yorker with a handsome face, a decent job and a spacious, tidy apartment. He speaks gracefully, behaves well, helps people open doors at will, and knows how to flirt with girls.
However, independent and forbearing, he has some indescribable hobbies - he is keen on DIY, and often has a haircut in the company bathroom during work hours; he has a variety of stocks in his hard drive, and he eats at home every day with relish. to appreciate; to search for flowers and willows frequently, exhausting all kinds of postures...
Yes, Brandon is a sex addict. He lives carefully, deliberately hiding these secrets because he feels "ashamed".
However, the appearance of his sister Hessi disrupts his seemingly peaceful life.
One day, Brandon had just finished "socializing" with his boss at the bar. When he got home, he heard that there seemed to be someone in the bathroom.
Unexpectedly, this person turned out to be bombarding his sister, Hessi, with the phone repeatedly. Sissy was naked in the bathroom, but the siblings didn't seem to shy away from it.
After moving in, Hessi dressed casually, and often fought with Brandon through physical contact; when the two were waiting for the subway together, Brandon grabbed Hessi, who was too close, and asked her if she had enough money. Really caring brother no doubt.
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Soon after, the boss asked Brandon to "relax" after get off work. Brandon said that his sister, Hessi, had a performance recently and invited the boss to watch it with him. The boss quickly agreed.
After Sissy's song "New York, New York" was finished, the boss's eyes lit up and he tried to talk to and flirt with Sissy. On the way home, the boss went even further, kissing Xixi in the back row of the taxi in front of Brandon.
After arriving home, listening to the indescribable voice in the room, Brandon couldn't bear it any longer, so he changed his clothes and went out for a night run. When he came back to sleep in the middle of the night, Hessi actually crawled into Brandon's bed. Brandon threw her out angrily.
At work the next day, the boss called Brandon into the office and said the little video on his computer's hard drive was disgusting.
The married boss, who has gone through a lot of trouble with his subordinate's sister, is now standing on the commanding heights of morality and scolding his subordinate's hard drive for being dirty.
At this time, Brandon felt a sense of shame in his heart. Unexpectedly, when he got home from work, he was caught masturbating by Xixi, and he was also found to be the naked chat object on his computer.
Brandon grabbed the computer angrily, and Xixi understood the embarrassment in his heart, so he went out wisely.
Brandon's small circle was broken, all his secrets were exposed in front of his own sister, and his sense of shame had reached its peak. So frantically found all the CDs, magazines, and computers in the big garbage bag.
He decided to "reform" and throw away everything that made him ashamed.
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So Brandon made an appointment with his favorite female colleague. During the meal, he revealed his fears about love and marriage, saying that the longest relationship he had ever experienced was only 4 months.
But when they parted, Brandon still summoned the courage to say, can I ask you again next time?
After getting along for a long time, the two went about things logically, but at this time Brandon was facing the biggest embarrassment of men. The female colleague reassured him that it was all right, but Brandon didn't dare to look at her directly and asked her to go back first.
Then, Brandon found a call girl, but at this time, his glory was unabated.
It turned out that Brandon completely separated sex from love. Addicted to sex, he is ridiculously incapable of love.
This is true for the person you like, and even more so for your own sister. He didn't want the people closest to him to know his shameful secrets, so he opened his mouth to dislike Sisi living in, breaking his peaceful life, and fiercely kicking Sisi out of the house.
After that, Brandon turned black, completely indulging himself in the matter of "sex".
He doesn't answer Xixi's phone calls, and frantically goes to hook up with famous girls, go gay, go to 3P, get drunk...
When he came home the next day, he found Hessi lying in a pool of blood in the bathroom. He cried and hugged Hess, shaking his phone and pulling out his phone for help.
Sitting beside the hospital bed, Brandon gently stroked Sisman's masochistic knife-scarred arm, lost in thought.
After leaving the hospital, Brandon, a decent white-collar worker in New York, just knelt down and cried in the torrential rain, like a helpless child.
The picture cuts to the subway car at the beginning of the film again. The married woman who once "seeed each other" with Brandon reappears, but this time it is more beautiful and moving, and she looks forward to brilliance. Brandon kept looking at her emotionlessly, wondering if there would be any further action. The movie leaves us with an open ending.
Brandon is a representative of a class of urban white-collar workers. "Love incompetence" seems to be a common problem of modern people. People carefully circled themselves, worried that their dirty little secrets would be discovered.
"We're not bad people, we just came from a bad place."
It is not shameful to have desire, but it must not be allowed to take precedence over love.
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