Mike is a small fish with narcolepsy that got lost halfway and got stuck on the way of migration. And he migrated not for food, not for mating, but to find his mother, or rather, to find love and security.
Love, he found briefly in Scott. But in the end, Scott returned to his own school of fish.
Security, never. Maybe at the end of the film, he was carried into his car by passers-by after passing out on the highway, which made people feel a little sense of security. But what happened next, who knows. Mike's life cannot be controlled by himself too much. He follows the wave, and the wave often traps him in place.
In the film, Scott said that when he was 21 years old, he turned back to the shore, and Scott asked Mike how many years they had known each other. Mike said that it was three years, almost four years. In other words, Scott's age as a male prostitute was around 17 to 20 years old.
This age between teenagers and youth is the most extravagant time in a person's life, wandering, taking drugs, picking up girls, fighting, and doing anything is fine, just don't spend it lightly.
However, after the madness, Scott has a way to go. The career of a male prostitute was only a deserted experience for him, he had a dream, and he could return to the upper class life after waking up.
For Mike, it was a dream that had nowhere to go. So, he can only keep dreaming. On the way to migration.
A typical literary and artistic film has a few lines of dialogue, and it is veiled but refuses to make the theme clear.
In fact, it is just a sentence, from the age of 17 to 20, in the past three years, what are these boys thinking, how to live, what their dreams have given them, and where will reality lead them. It is just such a theme, but in the film, it only passes through the mouth of the protagonist, it is easy to be ignored, and then fools the audience into discussing homosexuality, male prostitutes, life or death and many other issues.
No need to worry whether Mike, the frail little fish with narcolepsy, got out of the whirlpool and swam to the sea at the end of the film. Because he is still young. Even if there is no one to teach, no one to lead, and no normal family to pave the way for us to walk, time will eventually make us see everything and tell us which way to go is the right one.
And Scott, who's had his rugs laid out all his life, makes it easier to walk. But still the same sentence, life is still long, who knows that his path will not go astray in the future.
The yellow car parked next to Mike at the end of the film and the large group of fish that are struggling to migrate are the most memorable parts of this film.
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