Make love into a bonsai

Morris 2022-01-14 08:02:30

Seeing comments that "Weekend Time" is "the most touching gay movie behind Brokeback Mountain", I always feel uncomfortable. It is not because these two films are bad, but because their styles are completely contradictory, just like the north and south poles of a magnet, lacking an environment where they can be put together and compared.

Brokeback Mountain stretches the timeline. The obstructed love between Jack and Ennis takes twenty years as the dimension, and is thus endowed with the weight of life-and-death bondage and soul-stirring; the weekend time is just the opposite, which completely narrows the emotional waves. , Compressed to a trivial weekend, and then zoomed in on every conversation, every fight, and every bed. If Brokeback Mountain is a towering tree, weekend time is like a carefully tailored bonsai. Its branches and leaves are not luxuriant, and its rhizomes are not deep and wide. It moves vertically and horizontally in a limited world, but it unexpectedly creates an exciting effect. From this perspective, director Andrew Haigh can say that he has pointed out a new way out for gay movies, that is, it

does not need to sell male sex, nor does it require big investment, and it can be brilliant by relying solely on scripts and dialogue.

The dialogue is what impressed me the most in the movie. Considering that the whole film is basically supported by a dialogue between two people, I think it can be moved directly to Broadway and become a drama (of course, it may need to be harmonious part XXOO). The lines of the movie are like flowing water, but they are full of unexpected novelties. For example, Glen said that changing the environment is to "repaint himself", and everyone around him is hiding his pencil; for example, Russ only allows Glen to not touch it. In his own armpits, Glen joked that you are a museum there; and the paragraphs where you are flying a plane with a "room with a view" are even more magical... The

plot of the movie does not have any big ups and downs, it is a bit like "love is in" Before dawn". The two protagonists have very different personalities, one is destined to fly high and free, and the other stays quietly, but in 48 hours, they compose a love song from sex to love. At the end of the movie, at the farewell station, the two men embracing and kissing in an embarrassing manner evoked boos and whistles from others. Russ, who had been gentle from beginning to end, suddenly raised his head fiercely, looking like a falcon passing by—reminiscent of the "beautiful thing" that was also made in England in 1996 and was rated as the top ten gay movie of the 90s: when two little ones The boy hugged and danced, and the people watching were equally unfriendly; while the mother who joined the dance lineup had the same sharp and sharp eyes.

After fifteen years in a cycle, Corruption finally produced another good movie.


Plot: ★★★
Dialogue: ★★★★★
Director: ★★★★
Cast: ★★★★
Screen: ★★★★
Review: ★★★★☆


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’s impossible to ensure that all the dialogue doesn’t fall apart, but the weekend time is completely smooth and natural. Compared with today’s Chinese-language movies, 99% of the dialogues are: the foreword is not followed by the words, the nonsense is continuous, the self-talking, the groaning...

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Extended Reading
  • Chance 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    Hagrid is really delicate, a first-class master of dialogue writing. Such a limited scene really relies on dialogue. Sound processing is more characteristic. This film even stepped on the database and art projects, which is really a stroke of genius.

  • Eino 2022-03-29 09:01:07

    Or the same sentence: good men have boyfriends!

Weekend quotes

  • Glen: It's like when you've had the same friends for too long, they become like - Everything becomes cemented.

    Russell: What? And that's a bad thing, is it?

    Glen: Of course, it's a bad thing. I don't want to be in fucking concrete, thank you very much.

    Glen: It's like they won't let you, they won't let you be any version of yourself except an old version, or the version that they want you to be.

  • Glen: Look. Straight people like us as long as we conform, we behave by their little rules. Imagine your friends if you suddenly started getting all, but really, political about being a fag, or you got suddenly, like, camp and swishy or talked about rimming all the time.

    Russell: [interrupting] But that's not what I'm like, is it? That's not who I am.

    Glen: Well, just trust me: They like it as long as we don't shove it down their throats.

    Russell: Okay, well, why should I just shove it down their throats?

    Glen: Because they shove it down our throats all the time: Being straight. Straight story lines on television, everywhere - in books, on billboards, magazines, everywhere. But, ah, the gays, the gays -

    [gasps]

    Glen: "We mustn't upset the straights. Shh. Watch out. Straights are coming.

    [lisping]

    Glen: Let's not upset them. Let's hide in our little ghettoes. Let's not hold hands. Let's not kiss in the street, no."