Originally, I had to watch BL movies because of the mentality, but when I slowly finished tasting it, I was about to be amazed. So amazing! First of all, the performance of the two male protagonists is very good. Neil had a rebellious ruffian beauty, but also melancholy, and that kind of love for his mother, for Wendy. He looks a little Chinese. Ha, maybe I'm thinking too much. When he laughed, it really made my heart hurt: how can someone with such a past laugh so fearlessly? The children I imagined in the future would have such a warm and sad smile. The words to describe him are unique: the silent galaxy in which everything revolves around him. People around him are attracted to him unconsciously. How can a boy like this not be loved by everyone? Unlike Brian's evasion, he liked the coach who had a relationship with him from the beginning. From beginning to end, he didn't cry or resist, but "every minute was happy". Years later, he confessed to his childhood sweetheart Wendy: "I was surprised that he liked me so much, even as a child. I thought, that's true love." The next time he encountered humiliation and shock in reality, the only thing he thought of was still the coach's inability to tell him whether it was lust or love. Perhaps, that is not sadness, but a real period of happiness?
Wendy is also a fantastic character. As a woman of the same age inside, she exists as Neil's confidant. She was also tempted by Neil. However, she is still positioned at his beauty in the end. This actually moved me quite a bit. Especially when she didn't become a fallen young woman and was still innocent and well-behaved, one winter night, Neil asked her out. The two of them stood on the square where they used to watch open-air movies, recalling the past that could not be returned. She picked up the old speaker and put it to her ear: "There seems to be a sound. It's God's music." At the same time, it snowed in the sky. In the slowly sounding singing, they raised their heads, like all other normal children of the same age who have not been hurt. The two childhood sweethearts smiled and stood quietly in this romantic snow scene, as if the world was old. (I am also very moved by this scene!)
And Brian, because of the glasses, looked unworldly, even a little clumsy. The dullness shown by the actors is also very vivid. Especially when his father came back to give him a birthday present, he broke out suddenly, crying and shouting: "Where were you when that happened?" Originally, he always implied that he was abducted by aliens at that time. As he investigated step by step and approached the truth step by step, the line of defense in his heart collapsed. Drunk, coupled with the sudden appearance of his father who had not returned home for a long time, he finally understood what cruel things had happened. He had to face a heavy blow. The truth he buried in his heart, even if it was only a tiny bit, was still unbearable to look back on. He and Neil returned to the place where he had been, and even if he was trembling, he had to learn the truth. The two of them snuggled up on the sofa. Neil gave him the recollection and narrated slowly. He finally couldn't stand the frenzy, and the nosebleed gurgled out, as if he had chosen to bleed and faint for years to protect himself. Lying on Neil's lap, cramping and roaring. Neil held his head tightly, comforting softly. Someone is knocking outside the door. Brian calmed down. The camera shot from directly above, only the sofa they were sitting on was lit in the room, and the rest was the pure black of the universe. And even this only warm light gradually moved away, became smaller, and disappeared. Neil thought quietly, "I should have told them, and Brian, that everything was going to be alright. But I didn't. ... The greed and sadness of the world made me want to run away. But in the end, it was like two people of the same age. Young man, gradually disappear into the darkness."
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