This is not a lesbian movie

Garnet 2022-01-14 08:02:12

Watching the entire film, there is mainly a feeling that is not very enjoyable. Grandma Glenn once again showed her prowess. The precise acting and Niu B's make-up brought the film's overall score back to more than 70 points. I don’t want to talk about how superb Granny Glen’s acting is. Of course, I think Granny Glen’s acting this time is still slightly inferior to Aunt May’s Iron Lady.
I think I still focus directly. The whole film is too warm in narrative, but I think the director's own point of view on lesbian topics still shows everyone's true colors. I just saw a film review saying that the heroine is Lala, and she almost laughed out of her teeth. Albert's character was inseparable from the experience of being sexually assaulted when he was a child, which led to her extreme insecurity about herself as a woman. In addition to the humble status of women in Irish society at that time, he could only seek out by disguising as a man. Way of survival. Years of cross-dressing life has led to her disordered mental state. Socially, he is a male, and he speaks few words. In order to bury this secret, his life is extremely boring, and he does not even tell a joke. As the most socially The people at the bottom live his life cautiously. When he met a painter who was also a cross-dressing painter, the life of a painter gave Albert a realistic model of a beautiful dream for a warm family life. But the crux of the problem is that the cross-dressing painters themselves are lesbians, and the painters themselves have no contradiction in their social consciousness and sexual consciousness. Albert, stupidly, didn't realize this. He had already explained this to the audience when he put on women's clothing and ran on the beach wantonly. His heart was still a woman who longed for freedom. However, the real contradiction is that he cannot be a woman. The sad ending is already doomed in Albert's confused gender positioning. I think the director can go a little deeper on this point. The story wants to express the difficulties and sorrows of the bottom of the society living in the cracks, and the accusation of women's social status by piggybacking expressions.

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Albert Nobbs quotes

  • Dr. Holloran: Dear Jesus, I don't know what makes people live such miserable lives.

  • Albert Nobbs: A life without decency is unbearable.