If "Call Me By Your Name" is hazy and sweet, and "120 BPM" is bursting and intense, then "Kingdom of God" feels clean and dull to me
It's not that there's anything wrong with being dull. On the contrary, this movie is something I'm more willing to take out and savor repeatedly. Although "only tragedy can last forever", life is already so painful that I need to watch some sweet neutralization.
I can't analyze and evaluate the film from such a profound angle and intention, and can only categorize it as "change" and "redemption".
At the beginning of the film, the protagonist John gave me the impression that he was a decadent, rebellious, impolite, and defiant young man who vomited everywhere, drank heavily, and had sex with him. Every feature of the "bad boy" was fully accounted for
But when the story slowly unfolded, when the first impression of a person was already so many negative feelings, I found that he may not be as sloppy as he seems to care about nothing, he will gently stroke the back of the cow, The corners of his mouth twitched as he took the money back to his grandmother, who refused to kiss anyone and was reluctant to kill a calf that might not live long after birth
After the incident, the blond boy asked him, maybe we can...? When John stopped pulling the door, he chose the word "we" and asked back, and then refused with a blank expression.
I think he may be hiding a bit of loneliness and sensitivity under the veneer of doing nothing
John drove to the station to pick up the new worker, Georgie, and started to sneer at the other party in the car. After introducing the car to the other party, he slammed the door hard to vent his anger. He was drunk and was thrown by the driver that night. Get out of the car and shout out his resentment about life when arguing with his father
I think it may be that after his father became ill, he was under most of the pressure in the family, maybe his father imposed too many of his own ideas on him, maybe he struggled to live the life he wanted but was forced to
Maybe he needs a light in his suffering
Then his Georgi appeared, watching the taxi driver throw him off the road, enduring his childish provocation again and again, successfully resuscitating the lamb he thought could not live, and giving him gloves to wear, Drape the sheepskin over the surviving lambs to keep warm. Georgi is attentive, warm, and tolerant, and even the discriminatory "Gypsy" has gradually changed his taste. Maybe in the end he can't tell whether it is a contempt or one who wants to attract attention. symbols of
The relationship took a turn from the last sentence "Gypsy", I don't know if John kept from looking back when the other party wiped his body, or if he wanted to attract the attention of the man again, he was pushed down by Georgi On the ground, I finally realized that the other party was not a lamb, so I could only lick my lips and sullenly listen to the other party's words.
Georgi slowly melted John, he began to crave for kisses, carefully asked each other for condiment packets when eating fast food, shared the same cigarette with each other, and began to talk back less frequently when he saw his father
When the relationship between the two warmed up, his father's stroke was undoubtedly another huge burden on John's shoulders. He returned home from the mountain and fell back to the world from heaven, but fortunately he had Georgy by his side. Erki calmly asked about his father's condition. He instinctively wanted to escape, and said blankly, what if the doctor's answer was not what I wanted to hear?
Georgi gently stroked his hand with his fingers, a silent consolation, I think that's one of the reasons why John went back to the ward to hold his father's hand, he received love from Georgi, Then he began to learn to love and care for others
When I got home, Georgie was cooking and it really warmed me up. He noticed the small expression on John's face when he took the first bite, and then helped him to season it until he could eat it. John is He De and He Neng can meet Ge Olki is such a nice guy
However, love stories are always unavoidable, and there will be some twists and quarrels. John is an insecure person. He may worry that Georgi is not so concerned about this relationship, and when the other party refuses to be in the room with him After making out, he sat sullenly in the RV until his ears tickled and couldn't hold back his serious expression. He cautiously asked Georgi if he could stay with him for a longer time, and the other party was obviously more realistic and mature, and would take into account How will the farm operate next? Will he be asked if he has come out with his family?
Drunk John may think it's a sign that he doesn't want to be with him for long and make a big mistake
In the end, Georgi couldn't help but take a heavy hand on John he liked. He left his phone number and the address of his next job. When John chased after him, he repeatedly asked him "what do you want?", he forced him. John let go of unnecessary shame, face and caution, admitted his mistakes and made a promise
John may have sobered up when he drove out, but he couldn't make up for the mistake he made, and he couldn't hold his face to apologize, plead and hold back to Georgi, and he worked "as usual" after the other party left , took care of his father, and worked harder than before, but he picked up and put down the phone, vented about smashing things in the RV, and held his hand in his sweater as he left, revealing his regret and his desire
He told his father that he couldn't live like his father, he wanted his own way, and he asked him if that would make you happy, he said, I think so
He is tired of being indifferent, tired of living a low life, tired of running away and constantly making mistakes, he wants to wake up every morning with the warmth of another person by his side, he wants to be loved and give his love, he He wants to learn to look directly at the problem instead of blindly escaping, he wants to recover the people in the past and redeem the mistakes made in the past
He needs someone to hold his face and kiss his tears, someone to touch and comfort him, someone to fall asleep on his shoulder, cry or smile
John was lucky to get the most unparalleled thing in the world: Georgi's forgiveness, a kiss and a hug
And then there is the ending of the "cookie-cutter", Hehemeimei, and "vulgar" happy stories
You see, life isn't like this, two people in love, a farm, countless animals, cold wind and warm fire, and a wet kiss every day, that's all I want
One of the reasons this story resonates so strongly with me is because I am someone who shares many of the same flaws as John, pessimistic, hopeless, world-weary, living in an incomplete family, and my first reaction to problems is always escape, because pessimism has hurt and affected so many people: such a bad person
I wonder if John has always had expectations in his heart, looking forward to meeting the person who will melt him with warmth one day
John's dad just loved the wrong way, and having a grandma like that was one of the luckiest things he'd ever had before meeting Georgie
I've read a lot of film reviews before this, and I also agree with two bad points in the story: the candlelight dinner after my father's illness and John's sudden recovery at the back.
John has been depressed and sullen after his father's illness. Georgi wants to care that there is nothing wrong with him making dinner for him, but the flowers on the table seem redundant, although he does not know that the flowers were placed by Georgi. He was already here before, but it always makes people think subconsciously, "He still has such a leisurely mood at this time."
Later, John turned his back and wiped his eyes before turning to chase after Georgi, which made me feel that the handling of recovery was a bit simple and blunt, but after thinking about it, I felt that John was this kind of straight character. , being able to chase after him and answering "I bought fungicides for the sheep" when Georgi asked "what do you want" is probably the greatest courage he can muster. And cowardice, you will really lose each other
Later, when Georgi touched his cheek, John subconsciously tilted his head to rub the palm of the other's palm and the pitiful crying dog's eyes, which made me want to hug him and comfort him.
The story ends here, we have all made some mistakes, some can be forgiven, some can't be forgiven, some people can find the one who is willing to forgive him and tolerate him, and some people can only be cold and numb. Live a lifetime.
May everyone be as lucky as John
May we all find our Georgi
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