"Behind the Candlestick" has an unattractive beginning. The movie looks good because the process of an old hunter capturing a young prey and easily turning him into a pet is unfolded on the screen like a formula, regardless of the hunter and the prey. What’s your gender.
To become more versatile, let's interact with the characters: imagine an old man who wants to hunt for beauty and let a young helpless little beauty be his prey. You can follow the flow to make this process controllable.
The first step is to show value. Liberace is an epoch-making piano master who opened a magnificent stage performance. The film soundtrack is fresh and beautiful, and flashy. Making an autobiographical film of a pianist is a reason for the ethnic minority college entrance examination. The concert where Scott met Liberace was the one that Liberace interacted with the audience the most among the many performances. His personal charisma and sound musical skills subconsciously make an ordinary veterinarian assistant feel dizzy and substituting by letting the audience blend into the rhythm and praise the audience, especially when he enters the backstage with the help of friends to gain Opportunity for superstars to talk. The quickest value display is that this is a fair value, which is beyond the reach of others while it is shown to the prey. Ordinary middle-aged and elderly players, in the era of cognitive fast-food, in a public place that can be recognized by their colleagues, just show some signs of identity, talent or wealth. You don't even need to let your companions set off as a young male porn hunter.
The second step is to approach the goal. As a veterinary assistant, when Scott was amazed in Liberace's mansion, he would not have imagined that he would yell "My house!" such a rhetoric here in a few years. The first time I saw Liberace stepping on the golden slippers, it was an illusory dream. Liberace quickly located Scott's only skill-treating a poodle with eye disease. No one has nothing, at least, there are so little shining points. The same is true for the old hunter’s goal, even without any decent talents or skills, a high school student can do the job as a personal assistant. Scott complained this way later in the episode.
The third step is to render value. It is not that Scott is unaware of the status gap between himself and the master, and it is difficult to immediately have the idea of climbing. When Liberace called him to ask for the medicine, I thought that he would definitely ask Scott to send him the medicine right away. really. Fly here immediately, I need you, I pay. Call me immediately, I want to talk to you, I buy the latest mobile phone. Appear right where I need it, I want to see you, I buy a car. Immediately... this kind of domineering request is difficult for young prey to refuse, and it will have an unreal feeling of being favored. Actually only spent a few dollars.
The fourth step is to build trust. The bathtub shots in the movie are like the shots of angrily eating in the dressing room, echoing each other back and forth, with an interesting sense of structure. When Scott was sitting uncomfortably in the bathtub that made him unable to resist peeking into the luxurious corner, I thought, the old guy is going to complain about the history of revolutionaries and let this young man relax, right? Next, according to the process, he first expressed his isolation and helplessness-the betrayal of the apprentice; then he expressed the loneliness deep in his heart. Scott, as soon as I saw you, I thought you were a trustworthy person. What I said to you tonight, I have never mentioned to anyone else. In terms of wealth and talent, Liberace is what everyone looks up to. However, "the strong one takes off the disguise" is a panacea. An old man shows weakness in front of a young man who is regarded as spiritually dependent. On the other hand, no one will remain unmoved. When the status of a weak person is suddenly elevated to a certain height in a secret situation, believe me, no one will resist this temptation.
The fifth step, oh the first time I am. In "500 Days with Summer", Jensef looked at the beautiful profile face of Summer lying on the bed stupidly, thinking contentedly, she told me things she had never mentioned to others, she was me The damned girl. Mobile social media tells us that we are not really socializing with others, but strive to build a virtual "me" that is better than our real self. Liberace spoke sincerely about his "first time". On the issue of how to reconcile the dual identities of Catholics and staunch homosexuals, Liberace of the last century described a kidney failure and whiteness in accordance with the mobile social code of the next century. The story of the robe nun has reached a sacred closed loop. Li An said that everyone has a Brokeback Mountain in their hearts. The old hunter said that everyone has a white robe nun in his heart. Everyone needs a logical self-consistent story, right?
The sixth step, gratitude and feedback. When Liberace and Scott sat on the edge of the bathtub with champagne glasses, Liberace exaggeratedly expressed that Scott was "so good to himself." This is very strange for ordinary social relationships. Scott didn’t react at first, but then he suddenly realized “Oh yes, chat with you.” One of the necessary processes to make ordinary relationships promote is to be grateful for things that don’t need to be thankful. The relationship between host and guest. After the two had a good time, Liberace exemplarly said: Let's go shopping. Shopping is the ultimate form of gratitude-the return of beautiful sex. Almost everyone will be educated that people are independent individuals, and sex or love should not be priced and traded. However, how to make young people who hold this concept submit to each of the above steps is indispensable, and the order cannot be reversed. If you show your fragility in the first step, then there is no such thing.
Scott, who was in court with Liberace in 1984, smiled contemptuously when he heard his gift list. At that moment, he realized his pricing-even worse than those ex-boyfriends Liberace spurned. Prior to this, his commodity attributes-it seems-were not so obvious. Liberace said fondly that he wanted children, so he simply adopted his sexual partner and bought a house under Scott's mortgage, in order to give his lover, child and pet a sense of security. As soon as the words came out, Scott leaped forward and gave a passionate kiss. From then on, people are yours~ Everyone looks down on Scott, so what? The people who looked down on him were cleaned up.
I used to despise such a relationship model, but when I saw Scott listening to the golden concert with tears in his eyes, I seemed to have reached some kind of reconciliation in my heart that didn't require the opposite party. It is also love that entangles interests, and it is also happiness that is drunk and obsessed. My male god Michael Sandel divides the concept of corruption into narrow and broad ones. Corruption in a broad sense refers to an item, an action, or a social convention. When we treat it according to a norm lower than its norm, we are corroding it. Applied in the narrow sense, for example, when a judge makes a corrupt judgment for accepting bribes, his approach is as if his judicial power is a tool for him to seek personal gain, not a kind of credibility. More broadly speaking, when a romantic relationship involves monetary rewards, although love requires a material basis, quantitative monetary incentives are corroding the meaning of love. Since the free market-style public economic policies led by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in the early 1980s began to occupy the mainstream position, after more than 30 years of intensification, the free market-style thinking model has penetrated into various non-economic fields. Gary Becker proposed "shadow prices" in the 1970s, which are the kind of imaginary prices that are considered to be implicit in the various choices we face. Thus, we can explain the mode of operation of the "marriage market". Gradually, the cost of marriage, divorce, and even love can also be calculated using the "shadow price". Unknowingly, we ourselves are corroding the definition of marriage and love.
I like this movie in a sense because it is an echo of the times. I don’t think that same-sex love is a milestone here, because I believe that one day, homosexuals will get equal rights in a wide range of places (the unequal same-sex love in this movie is almost the same as in the opposite-sex world) . But when same-sex marriages become more and more common, heterosexual marriages will be questioned: since both parties can use shadow prices to calculate costs, and marriage itself is an economic behavior, wouldn’t it be better not to get married and choose a partner freely? ? The prerequisite of marriage is love. In areas where homosexuality is not recognized by law, same-sex couples live together because they love each other to practice the meaning of marriage. The laws of many European countries also have better rights and interests protection for cohabitation relationships between same-sex and opposite-sex couples. And there is no need to suffer the legal and spiritual torture of divorce like the broken couple of the opposite sex. Now that free marketization has irreversibly corroded the definition of marriage and love, with the rise of affirmative action, will the marriage system gradually decline? This is very interesting. Homosexuals try their best to get married legally, but heterosexuals like me are thinking about the necessity of marriage in the legal sense.
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