Saw this movie in 2017. I thought it would be less shocking.
After all, homosexual themes are nothing new nowadays. The United States has already legalized gay marriage. The so-called large-scale lens has also been ruined by too many people.
But this is the case with really good movies. You don't need to go to the so-called imposing place, just look at it, and you will be moved and shocked.
Loneliness, loneliness, and loss, this series of adjectives full of negative emotions has almost become Will's theme. The once famous director has now become an old man who has little interest in him.
Grandpa Ian seems to have a unique understanding and unparalleled interpretation of the characters of all heroes.
Some people think that it was Boone's appearance that made Will regain his interest in life. But I don’t think so. Will never gave up on life. He just has experienced too much, has seen too much, and is indifferent to many things.
He was passionate, became an officer on the battlefield, and won the war. But like Boone, life in the barracks can only become a memory in the end.
He had love before, but his lover has passed away, and the sweetest everything can only stay in his mind and never reappear. Even if it is mentioned occasionally, it will only be regarded as abnormal.
Fame and fortune? For him, the classics in the mouths of others are nothing but things that he doesn't even bother to mention. And the works that I really love are those that are totally unrecognizable by the filmmakers.
The appearance of Boone is more of a wake-up. It awakened his memories and awakened his perception of the world. This handsome guy who also had the experience of joining the army made him feel the smoke and smoke that he had left behind.
He realized that there seemed to be things worth caring about in this world, his own life, and things worth pursuing.
He kept talking with Boone and confessed his feelings to Boone. When the two had lunch for the first time, Will told Boone,
"Frankenstein itself is a comedy movie about death, but the point is that I can't tell people who haven't seen it to be a comedy to explain that it is a comedy."
"But that monster should not be an object of ridicule. That monster is noble, but noble is misunderstood."
These words express too much Will's feelings. As an outdated director, as a homosexual, he is not dirty or lowly, he wants to be kind to the world. But the world never understood him, and only endless misunderstandings from this world.
In getting along and talking with Boone, Will plunged into memories time and time again. Memories are beautiful, because memories are so beautiful, when you look at reality, reality becomes extraordinarily ugly.
In the end, Will understood. He has dedicated a wonderful show for the world and for himself, and he is still short of a perfect curtain call.
He invited Boone to have a meal with him, he told Boone his story, and he took Boone to attend high society gatherings. During the party, he was ridiculed by others accidentally, and Will relentlessly ridiculed him back.
All this is preparing for his curtain call. In his eyes, Boone is like the Frankenstein he created. Simple and kind, even though terrifying anger sometimes erupts, in Will's view, "anger and fear are the same thing."
And what Will did was to hope that he could keep his best appearance in Boone's memory.
In the climax of the rainy night scene, the scene of lightning and thunder is almost a re-enactment of Frankenstein. In the roar of the storm, Will begged Boon to die, and he did not hesitate to provoke Boon with all kinds of extraordinary actions.
But in the end, Boone didn't start.
For Will, this is probably lucky. Like the Frankenstein he created, Boone is not a terrible monster. Even after such an intense scene, Boone still gently served Will to bed and rest.
Perhaps it was at that moment that Will realized that "Frankenstein" was actually an elegy that he had filmed for himself early. Like that Frankenstein, he was different from ordinary people, and he was eager to be loved more than ordinary people.
In the end, Will ended his life. When the maid, Hannah, in order to prevent the police from holding Boone accountable, she reluctantly put Will back in the pool.
At that moment, Will, who was floating with the water, seemed to bid farewell to them and the world in his most beautiful posture. At that time, he had already returned to his lover with the company of his own creation of "monsters".
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