After watching this movie, the hairy girl was so exhausted that she didn't dare to watch the movie for a whole week. I was so uncomfortable that I couldn't sleep, and my chest felt like a big rock. I couldn't help sending WeChat to ask my tutor how he felt (the tutor watched the movie until two or three o'clock every day), and the tutor replied: "This movie, I have never dared to watch it!" Curious It's how the instructor decides which movie to watch and which movie not to watch. If God gave me a chance to choose again, I would still click on it and read it. If you don't have the ability to face the pain in real life, then at least have the courage to face the sadness in the movies. And in general, those that can make people sleepless at night with sadness are often wonderful, whether it is a movie or a person.
The name "120 BPM" comes from the house music that swept Europe and the United States in the 1990s. Its beat rate is 124 beats per minute. It's a mix of joy and anxiety that perfectly captures the living conditions of the gay community at the time. So, now you know, this is a gay + anti-AIDS movie, yes, this is a fairly obvious label, when sexual orientation and disease are linked, it can always attract people's attention, and the lives of minorities and Struggle always arouses the curiosity of the public. But more than that, it is also a record of mankind's struggle in the plague. In the face of death, all labels are insignificant.
The movie starts with a very violent and unexplainable scene. The person in charge of the pharmaceutical company is giving a good speech. Suddenly, an organization called "ACT UP" rushed up, whistling, grabbing the microphone, throwing blood bags, and throwing blood bags. The innocent speaker was handcuffed. This kind of rights-defense movement that resorts to violent forms can't help but be disgusting. Just as Mao Wei occasionally talked to a friend about the difficulty of understanding everyone, for people who have experienced different experiences, "empathy" is almost non-existent. The magic of the movie is to turn this non-existence into a possibility, and the strong sense of substitution of the camera gradually allows us to understand the rationality of this opening.
Would society pay attention to these issues if violence was not resorted to in the first place? The answer is no, because most people are neither gay nor HIV-positive, no one will care whether the drug is developed, whether medical conditions are improved, whether the profit-seeking mode of operation is reasonable. . We saw the activities of this organization, so full of passion and energy, even crazy. They sang and danced to the music in bright T-shirts, they danced the disco of that era, laughed loudly, they argued fiercely in meetings, snapped their fingers or squeaked, they looked like spoiled youths A generation, carefree and arrogant. However, most of them were sentenced to death. Since they can't survive, and since their lives will end before the age of 28, they want to go to nightclubs, to kiss, to have fun, instead of having a job or an apartment, they want to enjoy life as much as possible. Is all this easy to understand?
The second half is based on the love story of Nathan and Sean, and deeply shows the situation of this group by embodying the emotions and illnesses of the characters. Cai Kangyong seems to have said: "It's not when we're happy... Well, it's not when we're happy, but, unfortunately, it's when we're unfortunate that we have the opportunity to find out how much we can love..." In the face of this vivid and fiery love, in the face of the passing of such a young life, our somewhat resentful hearts began to soften. The intense, noisy and arguing of the organization is combined with the quietness, gentleness and affection of the individual, and we can easily understand the cause of the disease through the dialogue between the two protagonists and can't help but feel deeply. The HIV infection rate among homosexuals is as high as 30%. It has nothing to do with morality, but basic common sense. There is a lack of extensive publicity and effective protection measures. Even if people are civilized and civilized like France, people still avoid talking about this issue or have misunderstandings. Just like when ACT UP publicized the danger of AIDS, a girl said indifferently, "We are not gay, so we won't get sick."
In fact, death is a very common thing, because there are as many deaths as there are births, and no one knows when death will come. But for people with AIDS, despair is more terrifying than death itself. In "The Elegance of the Hedgehog", the little girl Baroma said: "What matters is not death, but what we do when we die." Sean watched as his condition got worse and worse, knowing that the time of death was coming, and he lived in endless fear and loneliness at the moment of death and before death. Even if he is surrounded by people with the same illness like him, even if he is accompanied by a gentle lover who never leaves, he still cannot relieve his loneliness and vents through anger and resistance. Contrary to what I felt at first, our society needs such anger and resistance. Whether it is gays, sex workers or terminally ill patients, the voices of minorities cannot be drowned out. They live on this planet just like everyone else. Luckily or for the time being, we do not have the right and qualification to stand on the moral high ground to refute anything, until we really understand it.
After watching this movie, the hairy girl also wants to snap her fingers, for the love of Sean and Nathan, for these people who are still in deep despair and still fight bravely. "You won't die if you fall into the water, but you will die if you sink in the water."
PS: The instructor finally watched the movie in person.
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