Landscape-led anti-road film. Delayed montage, defocused, hand-held photography, peeping shots, a series of new wave techniques bring a certain atmosphere. Although as a landscape-oriented film, the photobook-style natural landscape and soothing audio-visual language did not hide the tension between the protagonists. On the contrary, the anxiety that pervades the journey seems to be what the director desperately wants to convey. Tension and anxiety are at their highest in the suspenseful scene where Kurt massages Mark. The audience expects to see Kurt murder Mark, or copulate with him, and nothing happens in the end, which is a stark passage of his "anti" character.
Middle-aged hippies either choose to continue to indulge in the lost ideals of the 1960s and become lonely and lonely, or recognize the classic American saying "mature yourself to take responsibility" and return to middle-class life, and the rift between Kurt and Mark also stems from this. If Kurt hopes to reawaken the ideal impulse of the counterculture movement through a wandering, then Mark chooses to join the camp in order to maintain a bashing of Kurt's way of life while claiming to be close to him in front of Kurt. This is undoubtedly a stark metaphor. Middle-class children entering the post-Reagan era not only flaunt themselves in the spirit of the 1968 generation, but also show that they have matured and chose to return to the middle-class way of life. It is this effort to stitch together that maintains the fluid unity of modern American history, while serving as an ideology to prevent society from falling apart. Furthermore, attempts to read it as an ideological allegory are not without trace, as evidenced by the two passages in which Mark, who suffers from political apathy, strays carelessly in the car from political radio's disappointment with the Democrats.
Shown in the four seasons.
Thanks to Sister Cong Cong, Pincent and Sister An Qi for sharing, allowing me to watch such an interesting video and discuss some very interesting issues in the video (Does Kurt have gay plots?)
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