1 Introduction
"the normal heart" starring Mark Ruffalo , Jim Parsons , Jonathan Groff (mostly I'm familiar with these 3 people, although Joe died in the first place, presumably this is him The consequences of falling wolf :) lol). The last time I watched it, I also knew the Hulk, maybe 15 years ago. The last time I watched it, I didn't realize that many actors in the show are gay in reality, like Jim and Jonathan. Let me take a look at the important plot lines
- Characters that keep appearing and dying, the business card that Tommy, played by Jim, keeps accumulating
- The aid center, played by Mark's Ned, is constantly fighting to get the attention of those in power
- Ned meets Felix, the love of his life, but Felix still suffers from AIDS
- Emma keeps researching AIDS but can't find the reason
In fact, there are scattered branches, such as the contradiction and reconciliation between the Ned brothers, the contradiction within the aid society, and the hints of the White House. All in all, it describes a floating painting under the shadow of desperation of an unknown virus. What the movie wants to express is probably to describe the story of those people who keep fighting.
2 characters
Ned : A writer from a wealthy family who finally woke up shouting "not a virgin" after trying unsuccessfully to sleep with a prostitute at the age of 32. Because of a wealthy family background and an elder brother who has always loved him deeply, and because he saw countless psychiatrists when he was young, after awakening, he dared to fight without losing his confidence and dare to speak for it. The converts fanatically denied the cowardice of the past. , with too much emphasis on bravery, with a contemptuous attitude towards cowardly people, and at the same time arrogance, arrogance and self-righteousness of the unworldly, and irritability caused by a strong dissatisfaction with the status quo. But in the same way, his courage and courage, strong sense of social responsibility, and strong execution are also praised by others. All in all, a warrior, a fighter. In other words, when watching the show, I always feel that he will say "i always angry", and the next second he will transform into Hulk and smash everything to pieces.
I don't want to go into details about other people, such as Emma who wants to solve the disease and never gets discouraged, but because of seeing too many dead patients, Emma who collapsed at the end; Tommy, a warmhearted person who wants to protect Ned but doesn't have the courage to do so; Felix, who was bright and handsome with black hair to the end, looked like a dead man; Albert, who had an extremely tragic death; Ben, who loved his brother but couldn't understand it; Bruce, the chairman who was bright but dared not show his face; and Craig, who died at the beginning.
3 feelings
It's actually quite sad. The plot points out the background from the very beginning. Just after sexual liberation, a deadly virus is quietly lurking among the carnival crowd. Especially at the beginning, with Ned's eyes, we saw the carnival crowd, the crazy wild group sex, but when the movie describes these pictures, it gives people a strong sense of being out of the way, and then Ned sees the newspaper, a virus is spread among comrades. Then, Craig died. I watched "Looking" relatively late, so I didn't feel it strongly, but when "Looking" became popular in 2014, "Patrick" died as soon as he came up, so the impact was probably very strong.
And it was Craig's death that made everyone want to do something. Organizing a party, failure; looking for the mayor, failure; looking for a brother, failure. At the same time, the death toll keeps increasing. The aid center was later formed, but the chairman chose Bruce instead of Ned. To be honest, I don't actually approve of Ned's rashness in wanting the government to make decisions, and I also don't approve of Bruce's acquiescence. I know that the efficiency of the government will be slow without supervision; I know that it is difficult to give the government work efficiency without strong social pressure; I also know that strong social pressure needs to mobilize everyone's emotions, and anger is the best Weapons; but I also feel that anger does not solve problems, anger does not wake people who are pretending to be asleep, anger only alienates those close to them.
I would think Ned had no empathy, and I would hate his self-righteousness, but I also admired his courage, his determination.
The sad thing for me is that from the perspective of the future, I know that their actions don't really make a big difference. The struggle of the aid center is useless, because the world thinks that this is a virus that only spreads among gay people, and that it is God's baptism for the sinful people in the world, so the world doesn't care and doesn't care until it harms them. Ned's anger is useless because his anger, his accusations, are seen as hilarious clowns, and it has cost him the job he wanted the most, and the partner he loved the most. AIDS finally attracted attention because people discovered that the virus could spread among the general population, but it was normal. After all, everyone thought of burning incense and worshipping Buddha, and I did the same.
What saddens me even more is that Ned and Felix keep trying, trying to live, they just met each other, they just fell in love, but it's time to part, it's death, not life. They want to live, they have been encouraging each other, but I know that Felix will die, and Ned, who has high-risk behavior, will probably get infected soon and die. Although the people in the play seem to be safe and sound, they actually have the death list without knowing it.
4 Diffusion
I remember when I watched "Ghouls" before, I brought myself into the dead end of vampires, the kind of exclusion and oppression of the majority against the minority (although the death of the vampires in the ghouls was purely deserved); I also thought about the world of ABO, but Such a world is born with class oppression; in a different world, the root of the heavenly spirit and the root of miscellaneous spirits, the innate sacred body and the mortal body, born full of martial spirits and abandoned martial spirits, are really a wonderful soil for oppression and exploitation. But if I really want to say, people are used for exploitation and oppression when they live, it's just the difference between more and less. Cowardly like me, I'm used to just living my life, I'm used to living with the situation, I'm used to deceiving myself, all I think is that I can live a better life on the premise that I can live my life safely, even though it's a very difficult thing.
We naturally want to make a difference, because the pleasure of standing on the commanding heights and despising others is really intoxicating. But anyway, warn yourself.
One can be humble as dust, not twisted like maggots.
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