"Weekend" may be one of the best same-sex movies in the new century. The "same-sex movies" here refer to movies that focus on expressing same-sex emotions and discussing same-sex topics as the main content of the whole article, excluding those more general movies that only contain same-sex characters and plots. This is a textbook-level work. The significance of textbooks is to learn the new through reviewing the past, and to always consider the new ones. When I saw this film for the first time, I just felt that the film was fresh and refined, and I couldn’t tell where it was "refined". Afterwards, I got a deeper understanding every time I watched it, until this time I felt that I really "understood." . The decisive new insight stems from a recent "quarrel": she went to Singapore to study in junior high school, and now a female friend who is studying political science at LSE returns to China to participate in the summer camp of P major. Because she had to study in Poshang high school for four years, apply The season dragged on for another year. Although we were the same age, I was about to enter the senior year, but she had just finished the freshman year. Four years of Poshang + one year of influence from the political department in London has shaped my aggressive young lady into a half-leftist fighter. When talking about feminism at the dinner table, I can’t open my mouth. She has already used a bargaining style. The speech told me: Do you know what feminism is, do you know what the difference between sex/gender is? ! If it weren’t for someone else, I almost couldn’t hold back telling her my little secret aloud, and using this ironic fact to choke back her eloquence, and then I laughed dumbfounded: We’re not here for a debate. After eating, the claypot rice is going to be cold. I always feel that I am actually a leftist person in my bones, but living in an environment where the political context has long been dispelled, there is no chance for self-examination, and I never wanted to suddenly run into someone who didn’t care about the “national conditions”. The character, with her aggressive "left", intimidated me into shame for being "not enough left". This experience of naked political conflicts made me suddenly understand what I had been ignorant of when I revisited the movie yesterday. Same-sex topics are destined to be political from the bottom up. Discussions about same-sex topics are the conflicts between self-political values and social political values. If political discussions are stripped away, same-sex stories become pink bubbles and dreams. The sugar water is just another self-distraction that everyone invented when they were extremely bored. Even the most "de-identified" masterpiece "Call me by your "Name", its essence is also about two men (boys) struggling with the core value standpoint of life, not to mention Oliver was originally a philosopher, remember? The script of "Weekend" is undoubtedly ingenious. I think the final parting may be one of the most important partings in film history; the performance of the two protagonists is also exceptional; but outside of art, the most important part of this movie The core lies in its profound discussion of "same-sex politics." It is not so much that Russel and Glen are two men with very different personalities and different outlooks on love. It is better to say that they are two comrades with different political stances: Russel believes that two men holding hands on the street to declare their love for each other is already radical. The declaration stated that gay marriage is a great progress; Glen despised the compromise of the British gay community and refused to cater to the marriage system of mainstream society. Even when John, who had repeatedly betrayed his ex-boyfriend, was beaten by homophobics in the park, He is not angry, but hates John's cowardice; Russel dances solo in a gay bar, and he does not want to be too intimate with Glen on other occasions; Glen loudly questioned a middle-aged man in an ordinary bar Men’s discrimination and prejudice against comrades finally found that the other party’s boyfriend was standing behind him. The difference in political stance brought about two people’s different choices regarding lifestyle and life goals: Russel worked as a lifeguard in the swimming pool and watched silently the figures in the pool coming and going, late at night. At home, he was careful not to disturb his neighbors. Even when he was with his closest friends, he often had reservations. Glen was determined to go to the "holy land of gay pioneers" in the United States, pursuing his modern art and more radical political expressions. To build a "back garden" full of elves and flowers that belong exclusively to comrades. In two days and one night, the bodies and emotions of the two people are getting closer and closer, but the vague distance in their hearts is destined to drift away, far and near, near and far, and finally drawn at the far away railway station. On the final chapter. The director was not so cruel. He placed the two on the opposite ends of the political balance, leaving a contrast of inverted details, which is intriguing: When I first saw Glen scolded the provocateur outside the window of Russel's apartment, Russel hurriedly stopped, worried about homophobia. Throwing bricks at his apartment; at the end of the train station, the two kissed goodbye, and the little gangster on the side whistled provocatively, but Russel glared at each other, and Glen said, "Just ignore be-this sentence represents another kind of torture in the gay world. In fact, most ordinary people in the world can be muddled and confused in the face of the choice of value. It doesn't matter, it's not a big deal. But few comrades can choose this kind of moderation and ambiguity. Left or right, this shore or that shore, back or forward, silence or shouting, human society seems to leave only two options for this group, the middle area is reduced to a thin line, and it takes half a step. There is no chance to look back. What's more worrying is that this question was originally just about "who do I love", but it is often extended to all aspects of gay life. The same-sex political outlook seems to have become their only political outlook. Can't let go. At the dinner table with the half-left fighters that day, the reason I was hesitant to say something was actually that I didn’t want to easily divide myself into the left bank or the right bank, and then looked at her on the opposite bank. River. Of course, "Weekend" was filmed in 2011, and time has passed. The victory of the Rainbow Flag in the past two years is obvious to all. I believe that in a more flexible society and civilization, that thin line will become wider and wider, and can accommodate everyone on each shore. Under the same white sunlight, there is no need to distinguish between red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. be-this sentence represents another kind of torture in the gay world. Most of the ordinary people in the world can actually be muddled and confused in the face of the choice of value. It doesn't matter, it's not a big deal. But few comrades can choose this kind of moderation and ambiguity. Left or right, this shore or that shore, back or forward, silence or shouting, human society seems to leave only two options for this group, the middle area is reduced to a thin line, and it takes half a step. There is no chance to look back. What's more worrying is that this question was originally just about "who do I love", but it is often extended to all aspects of gay life. The same-sex political outlook seems to have become their only political outlook. Can't let go. At the dinner table with the half-left fighters that day, the reason I was hesitant to say something was actually that I didn’t want to easily divide myself into the left bank or the right bank, and then looked at her on the opposite bank. River. Of course, "Weekend" was filmed in 2011, and time has passed. The victory of the Rainbow Flag in the past two years is obvious to all. I believe that in a more flexible society and civilization, that thin line will become wider and wider, and can accommodate everyone on each shore. Under the same white sunlight, there is no need to distinguish between red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.
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