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

Weekend quotes

  • Glen: Well, you know what it's like when you first sleep with someone you don't know?

    Russell: Yes.

    Glen: It's... you, like, become this blank canvas and it gives you an opportunity to project onto that canvas who you want to be. That's what's interesting because everybody does that.

    Russell: So do you think that I did it?

    Glen: Course you did. Well, what happens is while you're projecting who you want to be... this gap opens up between who you want to be and who you really are. And in that gap, it shows you what's stopping you becoming who you want to be.

  • Glen: Do you ever think about finding your parents?

    Russell: No, not really.

    Glen: Why not?

    Russell: I don't really see the point. You know, I don't think it would change anything.

    Glen: Why don't I pretend to be your dad and you can come out to me?

    Russell: [laughs] That is SO weird.

    Glen: Just ignore the fact we just had sex.

    Russell: I don't think I can. Guess I'll try. Ok.

    [looks Glen in the eye]

    Russell: Dad? I got something I need to tell you.

    Glen: [pretending to be Russell's dad] What's that?

    Russell: I'm gay.

    Glen: [pretends to think] Hmm.

    Russell: I like guys, not girls.

    Glen: [breathes out slowly] Well. You know what, son. It doesn't matter to me. I love you just the same. And guess what?

    Russell: What?

    Glen: I couldn't be more proud of you than if you were the first man on the moon.

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