"Rose Temperament" Gummy Boy

Ridovic's appearance can be described as "a long-awaited appearance", with a close-up of the red high-heeled shoes on his feet, the blond Barbie doll on the dressing table, the rose-red puff-sleeved princess dress, and the fuchsia rose headdress, wiping it in front of the mirror. Lipstick, wearing drop-shaped earrings, the little girl who almost fell down the stairs pulling her red shoes a few sizes too large, one after another close-up allows the audience to gradually piece together the image of this mysterious girl in their minds. When the girl as sweet as a rose appeared at the party, the atmosphere suddenly became awkward. Pierre (father) eased the atmosphere and said that Ridovic was just joking. It's not pretty, it's handsome" explained the answer, it turned out that Ridovic was a boy.

The film constantly emphasizes Ridovic's femininity, either explicitly or implicitly, such as Barbie dolls, medium-length hair with equal ears, the corners of his mouth raised when he is called "little housewife", and embarrassed to change clothes in front of other boys in the dressing room; Unwilling to admit her gender, she wears jeans backwards and turns the zippered part behind her. Ridovic's favorite TV show shows Ben holding roses to propose to Bom, Bom dances happily, the screen switches to the real world, Ridovic dances the same dance as Bom, implying that he Subconscious gender substitution and looking forward to the arrival of love.

Ridovic's biological gender is girl, his social gender is boy, and his sexual orientation is heterosexual. As a boy, he wants to like a boy as a girl. This super-gender phenomenon is not accepted by mainstream concepts and challenges the concept of gender. Binary opposition, his "unusual" foresees future prejudice and discrimination. The performance of "Snow White" became the fuse and detonated the conflict. Ridovic locked the girl who played Snow White in the room, put on a fluffy gauze skirt and lay in a crystal coffin waiting for Jerome, who played the prince, to kiss. The performance accident caused There was an uproar among the parents present. The Fabre family left the venue under the "watching" of everyone. Under the overhead camera, the six people walked against the current. Other parents and children watched them leave the school step by step. This was because they were "marginalized". The real beginning.

Immediately after dropping out of school and a series of changes in dismissal impacted the family, Hannah (mother) lost control of her emotions and became agitated and sensitive, and her attitude towards Ridovic's gender cognitive impairment continued to change. In the early stage, it was a method of observation and guidance. In the middle stage, the concept was shaken and Ridovic was brought to see a psychiatrist. In the later stage, he took a tough and violent attitude, shaved Ridovic’s hair, slapped his face, and blamed the unsatisfactory life on “everything is your fault. ""You totally messed up my life".

Throwing the Barbie into the box was the first change Ridovic made. He looked at the boys playing gunfights outside the window. The window separated the outdoor from the indoor into two worlds. The boys were laughing and laughing in the background. Out of reach, Ridovic falls into an identity predicament and starts a tug-of-war in a "two-point prison". Ridovic in the mirror "boom-boom--" and made a shooting gesture, splitting into another personality, he decided to adapt to this society as a boy, reminded himself of gender conversion by constantly touching his genitals, trying to kiss girls, Participate in boys' sports.

Constructing a fairy tale world through fantasy has become Ridovic's sanctuary, which has become his spiritual home, illusory liberation, and transcended secular prejudice to find a moment of tranquility and stability. The pink-purple silk carpet, the colorful confetti scattered in the air, the warm crowd smiling and blessing, he finally became Jerome's bride in his sleep. Then the warm veil was torn off, and Jerome's father hammered the stake again and again. The rental card of the house brought the dream back to reality. After his father was fired, he had no choice but to move.

Emotions give color to the picture. The collision of high saturation, strong contrast, and complementary colors creates a unique retro aesthetic. Rose purple, lemon yellow, grass green, peach pollen, sunset orange, sky blue, etc. splash and dye "Alice in Wonderland". Creating fiction and legend, the magnificent and colorful colors are Ridovic's externalized spiritual world and the pure and innocent utopia of children. When he was hurt again and again by the outside world, the dull tones seemed to cast a thin, gray fog on the picture. After suffering school violence, Ridovic hid in the freezer of the warehouse. The dim environment Hannah, who was smoking a cigarette, expanded her depression and depression to several dimensions. The "freezer" can be regarded as a "coffin". The confined space is his escape from real life. Prejudice, exclusion and ridicule bring him the feeling of dying and bury him.

Ridovic put on the beautiful dress of Jerome's dead sister, and held a "wedding ceremony" with Jerome in the room. The seemingly absurd game was "anti-childlike", "not for the pursuit of the game itself. Appreciation, but focus on the social content in the game that can be imitated by oneself”, the small game of holding a wedding is the embodiment of individual freedom and the ideal of human nature. The huge shadow cast by the two children during the wedding is the desire to grow up; the teddy bear "Godfather" as the witness fell to the ground twice, which is a metaphor that such a union is unethical and unblessed; the sudden appearance of two A mother interrupted the ceremony and pointed out the identity of their hinderers, and it was also doomed that this hazy emotion covered with bruises and wounds would end without a trace.

The great thing about a movie is its treatment of negativity, Ridovic doesn't care what other people say about him, the only thing that bothers him is "I don't want to change, but I hope they (parents) love me" . Pierre and Hannah were surrounded by "selective prejudice" from the outside world. When they saw the "withered stem boy" spray-painted on the garage door, the humiliation and anger made the husband and wife squat in the yard and cry, Hannah shaved it off. Ridovic's hair is an attempt to annihilate his feminine consciousness and shatter his gender roles. The process of cutting the hair was unusually calm, there was no crying and resistance, no hysteria, "covering the strong emotions with an emotional blanket", close-up of the mother and son's faces slipping into tears, and the calm eyes are full of stagnant water. The continuous transformation of children's perspectives and adult perspectives fully presents the exclusion, punishment and "secondary harm" caused by relatives who deviate from social gender norms. It uses the perspective of children to face and see the living conditions of the adult world, showing beauty and ugliness, narrowness and ugliness. Hypocrisy, unreasonable and unjust.

Rose is the symbol of aestheticism and the epitome of realism. It symbolizes Ridovic's thirst for love and femininity's nostalgia. The image of "rose" appears in the film many times, including rose flower skirts and rose flower headgear. , roses planted in the yard, rose photo frames for wedding photos, roses in transparent glass vases, music boxes printed with roses, etc. In the negative load of Dovic in the mid-term, the "rose" disappeared from the picture until the happy ending. The roses appeared on the wooden table covered with white tablecloth at the relaxed afternoon party. With the rising overhead shot, the whole picture of the party was revealed. Bom, floating in the air with a spring breeze, watched the hilarious crowd, with a humanistic style. The end of color becomes a warm redemption.

"Queer" believes that gender is fluid, that our gender identities and sexual orientations are given by sociality, that gender performance is a means for the majority to integrate into society, Hannah cuts Ridovic's hair to "gender" Correction”, catering to the so-called system of truth under the repression of violent norms. "History is the symptom, we are the disease." Transgender phenomenon is the norm, not a perversion. It is not these people who are different from the mainstream who should be criticized and condemned, but those heterosexual hegemonists who harbor arrogance and prejudice.