I always tell my colleagues that if I want to make a film, I just want to make a simple youth love story about the same sex. ex once attended a seminar on East Asian LGBT films, and her professor also said that if you want to make movies in the future, please stop making tragic stories. We watch too much.
"Lan Yu", "Butterfly", "Eastern Palace and West Palace", "Happy Together"... I have the impression of too many panning, too strong repressiveness, and too heavy a sense of cabinet that can not be catharsised. It's very literary and blurry, but it's too far away from the general public.
And the "Yes or No" that I liked before was almost the only movie I used to watch repeatedly to give myself hope when I confirmed my sexuality. I talked to my girlfriend for the first time at the age of 18. Because I liked her too much, I couldn't give up my insistence on this love. I could only look for evidence to prove my "normal" to the vast internet. Although I grew up and discovered that "Yes or No", like many idol dramas, is very empty, beautiful and unreal. However, how rare and precious is the story of two girls who fall in love and then bravely announce to the public together. It was the only thing I could hold onto.
As a child who grew up under test-oriented education and has no knowledge of gender/sexuality/sexuality except for textbook knowledge; as a three-good student who has memorized too many essay templates and never knows to think outside the frame; as one, in China People who grew up...In the two years after I fell in love with girls, I didn't dare to say the word "homosexual", thinking that only me and my girlfriend at the time were exiled on an island of "homosexuality" in the world. That invisible wall will always lie between me and my classmates, between my family and friends, and the world.
So, after seeing the trailer of "Love, Simon" last year, it has become my most anticipated movie this year, because LGBT has finally become the theme of a movie to promote it as a selling point, rather than hiding it behind the scenes. The capital market is embracing LGBT, 20th Century Fox has invested heavily in advertising and marketing, and LGBT movies have entered the mainstream film market-this is really exciting.
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Where did it start? Was it the feeling of loneliness from when he was pushed out by good friends and the whole school after he was "come out"? Was his father sad when he learned that his son had hidden the secret of being gay for 4 years alone? Was it the anger when he yelled at the boy who had out of him, "When and where to come out, it's up to me to decide on what basis you can dictate gtfo"?
Maybe both. Because I believe that every gay, like Simon, has experienced all these rollercoaster-like mood changes. Maybe some people are lucky, or as lucky as Simon—mother is a very supporter of freedom and feminist rights; even though his father is very macho, he also quickly accepted him; Simon’s little sister has always liked her brother; she’s good for new friends She was not surprised at all, although his best friend liked that he was hurt by him, but he quickly reconciled as before; there are even funny teaching directors who bring rainbow flag pins to show their support, and the drama club director who punishes bully. The teachers, and the classmates who supported Simon after he issued a brave declaration of coming out-for the comedy happy ending, these are really wonderful. But just like the gay classmate Simon who came out a long time ago, don’t think that I’ll be fine when I’ve been out for so long. Every time my mother goes to my grandma, she has to make up a lot of things about my girlfriend.
Oh, maybe I burst into tears at this point. I thought of my mother in China and need to lie to her grandparents again and again. From coming out to my parents at the age of 18, to leaving home to study abroad for work, to their inability to interfere and demand my love life, to the fact that they can only call my girlfriend's name directly, but silently post on the wall at home Took a picture of us...
Mom and Dad, you have been in the cabinet for 7 years and you have worked hard.
I know that living in Los Angeles, USA, my LGBTQ friends and I have too many privileges, but every time I meet and chat with my friends, somehow the topic will turn to: whether to come out with my parents in China, and whether to have a relationship Colleagues come out. It's really an eternal topic. Some friends have been married here for many years, the house has been bought, and the raising of children is on the agenda, but mom and dad came over and thought they were just roommates. Or like my girlfriend, after coming out to her Chinese colleague, the other party said, are you okay? But rest assured, I won't tell others.
In the Winter Olympics some time ago, American free skater Gus Kenworthy competed again. After winning the silver medal in Sochi before, he dared to announce that he was gay. He said that he always felt that he had to behave very well, so that he could be blameless, so he dared to announce his sexuality.
This is even more true in China. It seems that only those who wear an elite halo are qualified to be gay. But why?
Because we have never seen Simon's story, nor have we seen him kissing the boy we like on the Ferris wheel.
Because we have never seen a gay couple in Modern Family who are noisy and noisy all day, but they are still loving, and they also adopted a Vietnamese child.
Because we have never seen two men call each other by their names when making love, and the boy's father encouraged him to fully experience the beauty and pain of this love.
Because we have never seen a group of young French people who make their heart beat 120 beats per minute when AIDS is raging.
Because it is so difficult for us to have daily conversations with the people closest to us.
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Simon said I am gay. I want my love story to start.
And we just want a simple and beautiful same-sex love story.
Representation matters. Representation means better art.
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