Lover monster, my incompatible flesh. As a whole, I think this movie can only be said to be a good-looking feature film. The focus is on LGBT, and the director’s debut is also remarkable. What attracts me is its psychedelic style soundtrack, each scene is used very cleverly, reflecting the paranoid entanglement and transformation of Oscar's heart. The film has a strong magical color, whether it is a conversation with a hamster since childhood, a vomiting nail at a party, and a steel bar pulled out of the body after an argument with his father. All speculations are a manifestation of Oscar's fear and resistance to his homosexuality. Then the color style in the early stage is relatively strong and psychedelic. The final seaside cabin environment is very comfortable and calm.
There are two passages that are more impressive. One is that after witnessing the abuse of comrades, Oscar obeyed his father's opinion and cut his hair in the mirror. This is the beginning of resisting his true self and determined to hide.
The other is the kiss scene with Wade. I quite like Wade's role (mostly Alyosha Schneider is very handsome) but I don't think the relationship between them can be regarded as love (if it can develop, it would be nice?)
The kiss of the misty boy wrapped in bottled water switches to the turbulent waterfall, full of sensuality but not erotic (this section feels very similar to Javier Dolan’s approach, but I am not professional, so I don’t comment too much)
Speaking of Wade, in the worst case, he is a boring bisexual who is looking for fun, tease Oscar. But better to say that he is the key to completely open the cabinet in Oscar's heart, he aroused Oscar's lust and guided him to face his true self. What I didn't understand was that he told Oscar that he was going to Berlin, but his friends felt that Oscar was actually going home and didn't understand why he lied.
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