After watching Matthias et Maxime, who had been waiting for a long time on Valentine's Day, there was an inexplicable feeling of completeness.
This time, Duolan was no longer an aggressive and a little nervous chatter, but turned into a distressed teenager. Such a change has made Dolan naked and exposed; some people say that the contradictions in the film are very superficial, I cannot agree-the problem has always been, whether it is 2019 or 2099, the same problem will always plague the same confused people, we can’t Because if you don't blame it, you will judge whether it is "outdated". Self-identification has always been a knot that many people can’t let go of after watching many movies and listening to many stories; it’s ridiculous that ten years ago, we would cry and punish for a tangled ennis, but ten Years later, faced with the same Matthias, we complained that the clichés were nothing new. The fact is that there are very few things that can be changed in ten years—some things cannot be consumed only.
Listening to the song "Song for Zula" at the end of the film, I am still amazed by the touch that Dolan brought me this time. Whether it's "I Killed My Mother" or "Fantasy Love" or "Tom's Farm Trip", Dolan is eccentric and cynical. But "Matthias and Maxim" is a piano and a simple guitar, so I can feel the mottled fragility behind that talent.
What did a kiss change? You can smell the gossip from the two people's cramped reaction when they know they are about to make a kiss. For Mat, this kiss revealed to himself unclear feelings about Max; he may have never realized that he has a tendency to bi, and the object is still his best friend. Therefore, as we will see later, Mat has experienced the typical awakening process of "confusion-rejection-rage-suspicion". Mat's overreaction must have made Max even more disturbed: Does he know that I feel about him? Should I do something to dispel his doubts? Or, worse, would he also have a mutual feeling? Max has a bumpy journey in the film, there is really no upswing, but this highlights the importance of Mat’s love to Max.
The whole film emphasizes a kind of instability. From the moment the scene of M&M kissing was suddenly cut off, the audience walked in a kind of wobbly: Mat's crazy swimming, Max's indifferent relationship with his mother, the powerful attraction brought by strange men, Mat's sudden change of temperament, intense kisses, etc. . The lives of both people seemed unpredictable because of this kiss. The setting of "a kiss between best friends" makes the plot that might have been cliché suddenly refreshed.
Sometimes, you will be moved by a simple story. You will substitute yourself into the scene and imagine what it will be like in this situation; sometimes you will look for swimmers or swimmers in the lake through the eyes of the protagonist. You look at the closed front door just to see that he will come back; sometimes you want to cry for him, you want to scream for him, until you realize that you are actually jealous that he has the power to suffer; sometimes you just want to stop The carnival in the room, stopped running ignorantly, stopped thoughts of collapse, just to appreciate the sadness revealed by a look in his eyes. "Matthias and Maxim" blew up a light red balloon, and then burst it in front of me; when I wanted to be sad, I found that behind the balloon was a face full of expectation.
Dolan made me feel very good this time :)
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