He/she is just a child of the earth

Wayne 2022-01-07 15:54:27

I have seen the velvet gold mine and the rock Barbie. I feel more and more that those drunken gold-like Glam Rocks in the seventies have such a bewitching power. An unrealistic ideal world is struggling to break through the southern wall but still firmly believes in romance and beauty. Gender, identity, and status are just foils. The important thing is whether there is a heart chasing fate and struggling with it.

In fact, I don't know where this film can impress me the most, so I don't hesitate to score five stars. Is it because of those songs, that The Origin of Love, because of Hedwig's unrepeatable story, because of John Cameron's genius of writing, directing, acting and singing? Both, and neither. I just sing the lyrics of "The Root of Love" over and over again, meditating on the stories that are born for love and do not care about everything.

Hedwig's life is from complete to incomplete, and then to complete narration. He was originally an ordinary boy in East Germany. In order to escape this imprisoned life, he left a part in his hometown. He came to the other side of the ocean with a dream and an incomplete body. The so-called spiritual comfort has long abandoned her. And to go, what Hedwig needs at this time is a true spiritual partner to comfort his injured body and mind, but this person is not Tom Gnosis (let's call it that). Although they had a wonderful time, playing each other's music on the guitar and sharing the happy songs with the microphone, the worldly vision finally prevailed over everything, and Tom's eyes still only saw it. Hedwig's body is different from ordinary people, and his gender is unclear, so those who have been eyeballs disappeared in a flash, he ran away, carrying soft or rough songs, carrying the guitar with his name, carrying The silver-blue cross on his forehead ran away. Hedwig's true soul mate is only music. It is music that adds a touch of color to his monotonous childhood life, it is music that heals her injured heart, it is music that leads her to find the way forward, it is music that allows her to spend a good time with Tom, and it is also music support He continued to walk the path of life.

Hedwig’s special circumstances destined him to be different from ordinary people, and that the love he experienced was nothing but abnormal. The dream of a normal life was completely broken when Tom turned around. Only music can treat her impartially without prejudice. After all the vicissitudes of life, it was only a childhood friend that I found. What's the point of following Tom's journey? Your home is not in that little boy, but in the music that has accompanied you for so many years. So the traveler returned to the nest, and Hedwig, who used his mother's name, seemed to have returned to the state of a newborn. After removing the neon clothes and makeup, the simple and clean Hansel found his original direction. When he was naked and singing Midnight Radio with tears in his eyes, in fact, inside was nothing but the heart of a little boy. He was only looking for the protection of others and a harbor for his fragile heart. In the end, he only changed The whole body was bruised and bruised.

Passing through the dark town, that is the new starting point of life. Hedwig, he does not belong to the sun, she does not belong to the moon, he/she is just a child of the earth.

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch quotes

  • Hedwig: My sex change operation got botched; my guardian angel fell asleep on the watch; now all I got is a Barbie doll crotch; I've got an angry inch!

  • Hedwig: I had tried singing once back in Berlin. They threw tomatoes. After the show, I had a nice salad.