In the front of the movie is comedy, and in the middle is tragedy. Finally, love and respect are talked about in this complicated atmosphere. This kind of plot development is not very abrupt in the two-hour-long film, but because it is too lifelike to make people feel empathetic. .
Feel free to talk about the plot and characters whenever you think of it.
The story starts with the protagonist Arnold’s "crazy talk". I felt very uncomfortable when watching this section. It may be because of insufficient translation and the subtitles seem a bit too inexplicable, or it may be because of the protagonist’s inexhaustible voice, anyway. I almost started to persuade me to retreat. After watching the movie, I recollected it. I suddenly felt that this section is actually what many gays usually think, but the movie shows it through self-talking. The more the aftertaste, the more touching.
The second male Ed, found a girlfriend when he was ambiguous with Arnold, and asked Arnold to confess when he was separated from his girlfriend. The scum is over, but Ed is really good-looking with a smile, as long as he grows well, three views Run with the facial features.
The male third, Allennen, is out of water, and the next year’s offense is really amazing. There is also the phrase "computers are very simple, contrary to people, for computers, software is inserted into hardware, and people..." Arnold hurriedly interrupted Change the subject, hahahahahaha, so young, it’s a pity... There is also a golden sentence in this plot, when Laurel said "I said I want it doesn’t mean I really want it" when Ed’s face was veiled. Laughing to death, sure enough, men in love can't guess what women think.
There are still a few funny places behind. One is when Arnold and his mother talked about how to educate children. Arnold said, "Whenever a problem arises, I think about how you will solve it, (pause), and then I said Resolve in the opposite way", the mother’s face changed again and again; the other was that when the mother came to visit, the adopted son David and Ed didn’t want to open the door while watching TV. Finally Ed went to open the door and looked back three times. Watching TV is too real.
The two most uncomfortable points in the whole film are that Alan died, and Arnold couldn’t help shaking his hands when he looked at his lover in the ambulance; the other was that the mother said, "I knew this was the case, I won’t give birth to you." In other words, I paused for a while for the real scene. It was too suffocating. This scene appeared in my mind so many times in my dreams that I didn't dare to come out.
The most inexplicable part is that the four of them are vacationing in a suburban house. At this time, Ed has a girlfriend who actually wants to invite his ex-boyfriend to play, and then the ex-boyfriend’s current boyfriend actually wants to go, and Ed and Allen are in the end. The barn...Although I think this paragraph is outrageous when I read it, in reality, it may be more dramatic...
The groups represented by the male lead Arnold, the second male Ed, the third male Allen, and the adopted son David are also obvious.
Arnold is the type of people who dared to face "homosexuality" in the old days. Although Arnold himself was only nonsense at first, he dared not go to the small black room behind when he went to the bar. When Eddie first met, he said that his profession was a female imitator, Eddie Once I wanted to go back to Broadway to find him in a hurry to remove his makeup, but as the story progressed, he gradually grew up. When facing Alan, he was blunt and generous, facing his mother steadily, and he didn't care about his Jewish identity. .
Ed is the kind of person who dare not stand up, succumbing to the pressure of public opinion, it may be a kind of fraudulent marriage in our country. Compared with Arnold coming out at the age of 13, Ed did not dare to come out at the age of 40. Tell your family, a sad but powerless generation. Although the plot finally gave him a chance to become a positive, he can only make up his own mind about how to judge the official.
The male third Allen represents the type of people who are fighting on the front line of equal rights. The first generation of equal rights is as young and fearless as Allen, but the ending is mostly the same as Allen, but it has brought opportunities and opportunities for future generations. change.
Adopted son David may be a homosexual in the new era. He has the pioneering and caring for his husband’s predecessors, and his self-identification is also positive and affirmative. Although there are still discriminatory voices around, the society and the environment are not better than many years ago. few.
This is a 1988 movie, which is really unimaginable. After watching it, I have to admit that many film critics said that this is indeed a classic. Of course, the highlight of the movie is not only here. For example, the classic jazz music when returning to the suburbs is used as the background song, such as the dialogue between Arnold and his mother about love and respect, and the orange between Arnold and his mother at the end of the film, Ed's The glasses, David's hat, and the harmony of Ellen's portrait when nestled together all reflect the beauty of this movie. I think this movie should be among the top three same-sex movies in my mind.
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