I watched this film alone on a night when the power was suddenly cut off. The lights of the opposite community were brightly lit and I finished watching this film which had been on my computer for two years. The overall tone of the film is bright and warm, and the rhythm is slightly slower, although it tells a story that is not easy.
Robin Williams is a master of comedy, although the two films I am familiar with are both feature films, "Death Poetry Society" and "Mind Catcher", this "boulevard" is also a feature film.
The film is almost always from the perspective of Nolan, the hero played by Robin, who was in the year of earshun when his mother died and his father died. It took a traffic light to change the trajectory of my life. The plot of Joey and Leo basically didn't unfold, only a few words were taken.
But I still want to write a paragraph about Leo, or about Leo as a group. Three or four years ago, I saw a documentary about male prostitutes in a NetEase classroom. They stood on the street and sold their bodies. They came to the camera for various reasons or monologized the reason, process and future of their own business. From teens to twenties. Some of them like men themselves, and there are also heterosexuals who use this as a career. Most of the homosexuals fall into drug dependence due to various reasons, and then take drugs and inject injections. Getting involved in emotional and financial disputes with clients, actively and passively giving up on themselves in their twenties, and fewer and fewer people in front of the camera. Those faces and bodies that were alive when they first appeared may eventually rot in a motel or even a street corner in the city. Perhaps Leo is one of them. It is sad to think of their beautiful faces.
But "The Boulevard" is not about Leo, I don't even think it is about homosexuality. He was talking about how to face and accept the true self. After Nolan's self-awareness started in the summer of 12 years old was forcibly cut off by his parents, he stopped there. Over the next few decades, he has been working hard to play the role that society and family hope him to play. He has also done very well. He has a stable career, a warm family, and is considerate to his wife in life. But in the year of earshun, in the middle of the night between the traffic lights, he shook a god and met a male prostitute Leo who hit his car. Faced with the dying life of his father and the life of his wife, he began to look for 12 Year old self.
Nolan’s chaotic teenage monologue in front of his father’s bed created a picture of a 12-year-old boy growing up on the beach in summer. We don't know what happened, but we can feel that Nolan was confused and unpleasant that summer.
The film’s love for Nolan and Leo is very simple and light. Nolan has been looking through his mobile phone at work, looking forward to the information and Leo’s hesitant and talkative clips when he sent Nolan’s Western movie discs are still very exciting to me, but the beauty is too short-lived.
Leo disappeared. The short but important passer-by in Nolan's life disappeared. He was not considered Nolan's lover, but he made Nolan step out of the closet and begin to face himself. He didn't want to deceive themselves with Joey. Give yourself another possibility in life for Joey.
My mother would say something: I’m getting old, so why don’t you care about so much? Just make do with it. She is less than 60 years old.
My colleague would say: The child is the most important thing in my life. As long as the child has a complete home, I and him can take care of ourselves. She has just passed 40 years old.
My friend will say: Marriage is what marriage looks like, and the ultimate essence is the same no matter who you live with. She has just passed 30 years.
Behind these words, what are we like, a wife, a mother, and ourselves. Maybe it is difficult to face the true self, maybe we have never found the self behind it. It is actually easy for us to play a social role, but the true self hides too deeply, we can't find him, so we give up. But Nolan didn't give up. After he found it, he wandered on the boulevard with a smile on his face.
But Robin Williams chose to stop abruptly on the hard way to find, leaving us with a sad passing away.
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