The focus of the movie is on their mother-child relationship. Julianne Moore plays an anxious and empty mother who passes the disappointment of her husband to her son and loves her son with paranoid monopoly; while Eddie Redmayne is the weak and pale , A melancholic and beautiful young man longing for his father's love and a complete family. "Homosexuality", "incest", "erotic", etc. are the labels that movies are easily denoted, but other than that, under the lens of aesthetics and depression, it is just a simple Freudian symbolic meaning Family story. Tony, who has a suffocating maternal love and a missing paternal love, in such a depressed and hypocritical family, falling in love with the same sex seems to have become a kind of inner resistance to the status quo in his heart. What he needs is a father's shadow and break free The bondage of his mother, but at the same time he experienced his father's indifference, and he couldn't let go of his concern for his mother. It was inevitable that he would collapse and die step by step. A fragile mother who has a flirty heart but really loves her dull husband. After transferring her love to her husband to her son, she becomes anxious and out of control after discovering her son’s different sexual orientations, and even uses her body to change her son. The tool of sexual orientation, this is one of the most mad and sad mothers, which makes people feel puzzled but can't help but sigh. There is also a cowardly father who runs away from his wife and family. He is obsessed with his wife’s beauty but hates his wife’s ostentation and control, alienating his son as if he is a little monster, cheating with his son’s quasi-girlfriend, and escaping from what he should be doing on the grounds of adventure It is the responsibility he has to face, and to a certain extent he is the person responsible for this tragedy.
The movie uses time as the main line to show the stories of these three people in a scattered way. Tony's monologue runs through it. It is not so much that he is telling a story. It is better to say that this is a child who is sincerely telling his dissatisfaction to his mother, and Desire for father. The mother and son have a common obsession. The son obsessed with the father, and the mother obsessed with the son. This obsession makes them love, makes them hate, and makes them want to destroy each other to complete their own salvation. The son after killing his mother, after entering and leaving prison several times, still suffocated himself in a plastic bag, ending his short and sorrowful life. His life has always been like a fetus in his mother’s arms, and his mother’s Life is closely linked, and there is no way to survive alone. But the slender boy riding a horse in the movie will be unforgettable for a long time.
Published in the August 2008 issue of "Popular Songs·Rock".
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