It has to be said that Lucas and Aunt Nicole Kidman's performances are remarkable, and Joavin's beard and figure are extremely charming; but these advantages still do not make this film a classic. The mediocrity of the mediocre, the mediocre soundtrack, the mediocre editing, the mediocre rhythm. The whole movie is telling us that picking a good script or finding a few good actors doesn't make for a good work of art.
For the audience, the film is first and foremost a kind of art, which should bring a beautiful aesthetic experience. Even if there are no cruel humanistic and historical conflicts, many films can still be successful works through the advanced artistic mood and aesthetic taste brought to the audience by the director. Boy Erased fills the screen with darkness and twilight, coupled with strong and exciting music, trying to get us into the brain memory of a gay young boy. The experience is often not good enough.
When creating a character, it is often easier to succeed if the film explores the inside more than the external conflict. However, Jared's heart is as straightforward as his own honesty with his teachers and his father. His struggles and hesitations didn't seem to exist except in front of Henry. Jared broke up with his little girlfriend because he knew he liked boys; he talked to his father and he confessed at once that he liked boys; he was so firm in his beliefs even in the so-called corrective education school. If it weren't for Lucas' superb performance, we would not have felt the struggles, hesitations, willfulness, repressed impulses and ever-changing feelings of youth.
The shaping of supporting roles is a failure of failure. Sara (the girl), Cameron (the tall boy who committed suicide), and Jon were all masked, and their existence seemed to carry a mission, just like those so-called "several kinds of classmates in the class", just to show up Appear. What is the story behind them? What about their hearts? Did they come to this class just to talk to the male lead? Is suicide just to enlighten the male protagonist's father? Even the teacher played by the director himself is a Facebook in Facebook. The bad side is inhuman, but it has no origin.
From the first half hour of the film I wondered if the director really understood the life of a conservative Christian family. Eye-catching cross backgrounds, cross necklaces, cross decorations, going to church every week, inviting priests to come home, is faith just like this?
Aunt Nicole's increasingly stiff face did not drag down her acting skills. The submissiveness in the family relationship and the firm support in front of the son make this mother's image full. The way she looked at her son when she was talking about her unmentioned gay uncle, let me know at once that mom must be the one who supports the child in the end. Kudos to Aunt Nicole.
Again, the homosexual theme seems to be purely for political correctness. The director seems to be discussing the rights of LGBTQ throughout the film, the historical process of gay struggle, and the progress of social and family acceptance; however, he is really discussing vulnerable groups, isn't he trying to regroup with his own heart? A declaration of war by paternal authority? Isn't this a sign that his own inner world has not reconciled with the youth's memory? Sure enough, not every director is an artist, and most of them are mediocre people trapped in a small world.
After coming to the United States for so many years, it is rare today that half of the film screenings leave the audience. Presumably some white-haired grandparents were crushed by the rhythm and picture in the first third (the visual conflict between young men and boys on the bed in the college dorm). Henry, played by Qiao Awen, began to sexually assault the male protagonist, until he finally lived with Jared, and it was whitewashed. From a one-sided view, isn't this kind of relationship Stockholm Syndrome? Meow meow meow?
PS. Can you stop using the editing method of interlude timelines? Really tired of it.
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