This movie should be sought after by the LGBTQ community, but I was a little disappointed after watching it. It was not as exciting as I expected, and the discussion of the same-sex issue was not deep enough. Such a sensitive topic should have been well done, but in fact it seems The boat crossed the water without a trace, and failed to leave a deep impression like the "Beibei Mountain" of the same theme.
First of all, the male protagonist Jared has a great mentality. He doesn't have the shyness, inferiority and hesitation of other gay guys. He is gentle on the outside but strong on the inside. He has the courage to say no to injustice and evil forces. be confirmed. At first, he believed that he could be straightened, and he was serious about studying in the "gay correction concentration camp", but he gradually discovered the problem, and tried to ask his father to let him go back, because he felt that after so long, he and There was no difference before. Later, what the "concentration camp" did to Cameron made him unacceptable and eventually escaped. Jared can later write articles exposing the evils of the "gay correction concentration camp", and he is also considered very brave. So, it all seems logical to Jared, and there is no difficulty in his transformation, which makes the character seem less full.
Secondly, the homosexual correction project is more like a religious organization, such as the funeral of Camerson, which seems to imitate the process of baptism and whipping and humiliating him. All of these have obvious religious overtones, and they seem to be satire and criticism of religion. . Jared's mother should have suspected this organization long ago. Out of respect for her husband, she did not dare to disobey, so she let her son jump into the fire pit. Finally, she learned from her mouth that this organization is indeed a black organization, and the organizer does not have any qualification certification. The movie is an adaptation of a novel, so I don't know if there really is such an organization. This reminds me of an episode of SNL hosted by Ben Affleck . One episode also took place in a gay correction summer camp. The teacher played by Ben Affleck and other teachers flirted with each other. I laughed to death. Just imagine, gather all gays in At the same time, surrounded by some good-looking friends who are like-minded, this is their paradise, and they even correct their hair!
Then there is the girl in the correction program. She looked at Jared with ambiguous eyes. She seemed to want to say something to him but hesitated. She was obviously a female classmate with a story, but nothing happened by the end of the movie. Is this just a suspenseful cinematic technique (forget that proper noun)? It still haunts me now.
Another episode is that when the person in charge of the correction project mentioned the negative effects of homosexuality, it would lead to rape, and then the director arranged for the protagonist Jared to be raped by his roommate. Does this echo the distortion of the person in charge of homosexuality? Rape doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman. There are not too many heterosexual rapes. Is it necessary to stigmatize homosexuality so much?
In short, the whole movie gives people a very dull feeling, and some of the concepts conveyed are also very uncomfortable, and I always feel strange.
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