Although I was fully mentally prepared, I was not afraid of spoilers when watching dramas. After watching the last episode, I was still a little sad. Brian was lying on the bed alone, no matter how lively this attic used to be, this moment makes people feel so intense And the unbearable loneliness.
I was about the same age as Justin when I first learned about the show, and I was about the same age as Brian when I first saw it, which is now. It's not too late to meet, if it was ten years ago, I might not be able to watch it. Especially the role of Brian, if from my perspective at the time, drug addiction, promiscuity, and singing every night, what kind of true love would such a person talk about. But as you get older, you will understand that the world is not black and white, and love is complicated.
Brian could easily say "I love you" to Linz and Mike, and he finally said it to Justin in a near-death situation. M has always had a feeling of "unrequited and convincing" for Brian. In the first season, there was an episode where the goddess said that M's favorite person was Bri... He interrupted him in panic before he finished speaking, but everyone Everyone knows this is true. In contrast, Linz seems to know Brian better, probably bystanders, when Debbie says Justin loves Brian but he doesn't respond, Linz says that Brian loves him too. Debbie said Then show him. But that doesn't match Brian's character.
Brian's love is hidden in the bloody scarf under his clothes, in the hallway he keeps in the hospital every night, in helping him get back to painting, in paying him college tuition, in finding him after a breakup In the sad eyes and gentle movements of the substitute. All of this Justin didn't understand at the beginning, he was eager to get the equivalent of his deep affection, maybe he didn't understand that there was more than one way to show love.
He couldn't get it here with Brian, and he finally fell into someone else's arms. In fact, he is the one who betrayed their rules. Since S2E06, Brian has never kissed anyone in the name of love, but Justin kissed the boy at the Daph party, and later the violinist. He is the one who cheated and cheated. In their open relationship, I personally think this is worse than Brian's frank promiscuity.
In terms of attitude towards sex, the difference between Mel and Linz in the play and other male characters is probably also the difference in attitude between men and women on the issue of sex. The two lesbian emotional crises were caused by the other party having a relationship with another person, which is unacceptable to women whether they are gay or straight. In a way like Brian and Justin, it's even more unimaginable. Including the first season of M and David after confirming a stable relationship, the two also have no peace. Perhaps for them, sex and love, being able to be completely separated, are two different things, which is completely different from women.
Brian and Justin's two breakups, just like the direct cause and root cause in history class, the first direct cause was the emergence of a talented violinist, and the root cause was that the romantic violinist Justin couldn't get from Brian could give him , gave others the opportunity to take advantage of it, although it was later confirmed how plastic and how small the romance was compared to Brian's efforts. The second direct reason was that M and Ben's marriage stimulated Justin, but this time it was actually a peaceful breakup. When Brian furiously accused M of infecting his sunshine, it was obvious that he really cared. Outsiders are just incentives, the root of which is Brian's distrust of marriage, while Justin's desire for stability. This is the essential difference in the pursuit of life, and cracks are inevitable.
Even if they broke up, they still love each other. For the first time, Brian's various behaviors needless to say, in his eyes and inside his words, you will come back soon. And Justin runs to find Brian's nephew, find out the truth, save him from being framed, break up, and care so much about what it's not love. This conversation between Justin and his mother during the second breakup also illustrates the rationale for the final outcome.
Jennifer: I mean, it's not that he lied to you or abused you or cheated you like your father did to me...
Justin: No, of course not. He save my life , take care of me, gave me everything. It's just we want different things.
Jennifer: And neither of you are willing to change.
Justin: That's not love, that's sacrifice.
So when Brian's prodigal son turned back and was willing to go from "Not can't. Can't implies that I'm incapable. It's that, I won't." to being willing to marry, buy a villa, and settle down for his lover, Justin loved him Reluctant to let him sacrifice for himself, and he has long said that I accept that. That's suppose why I'm always love you. Likewise Brian is reluctant to let Justin's fledgling artistic career be affected by him, so there is what we all know ending.
Brian's rejection and dislike of marriage, in popular terms, is the harm of the family of origin. And Justin, whose father graduated from Ivy League school and came from a middle-class family, although he saw the breakdown of his parents' marriage, fundamentally he still had expectations for marriage. The ending is cruel but reasonable.
Personally, love is that I want you to be happy, and liking is that you make me happy. Brian and Justin's love is selfless and mutually fulfilling, albeit cruel. That's what love is. It's not just sweet, it's separation, sadness, and pain. But isn't Brian going to work in New York in the first season? Who knows if he will sell the company in Pittsburgh and go to New York to find his sunshine? Justin said to Linz when he suggested he go to New York to develop but New York isn't my opportunity of a lifetime. Brian is. Who knows if he'll come back for his Brian? Let me comfort myself like this. I think a Beyoncé song I really like sums up their relationship: You were worth waiting for
You the one that I adore
This kind of love you'll only find
once in a lifetime
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