Although we knew from the beginning that the love of the two boys was destined to end in death, Ou Rong still gave us an eternal summer gay romance. It seems that the more we know the ending, the more we cherish every second in it. The 16-year-old boy Alex loves literature and is good at thinking. In the midsummer of '85, he met the 18-year-old boy David with his own light. The two boys sailed, danced, played in the water, watched the sunset, rode a motorcycle, kissed and had sex, enjoying their first love in adolescence. Then they began to discuss what is true love, what is conceptual love, these are accompanied by adolescent seduction, passion, jealousy and death. If the first love of adolescence includes these, then such love must be a vigorous love. However, in the end a boy would have to dance on the grave of the dead boy, how deviant it is.
Ou Rong's "85 Years of Summer" is adapted from Aiden Chambers's novel "Dancing on My Grave" (also translated "The Youth Covenant"). All the teams used by Ou Rong are actors he often collaborates with, and the two young actors carry Ou Rong's consistent aesthetic standards for adolescence. The little male protagonist is more beautiful than the boy in "Into the House". The psychology of gender and sexual orientation in "Summer Sling Skirt" and the trend of love in "5x2" are themes that Ou Rong is very familiar with. "Entering the Hall" is the story of the boy breaking into the outside world.
"Dancing on My Grave" has a juvenile monologue theme. "The love of adolescence is always mixed with incomprehensible fanaticism and perseverance." A kind of juvenile literature like this is a novel that describes homosexuality naked. It is indeed a bit surprising. The first time I see it, it feels like a treasure. .
The image of the grave must be related to life. Behind the pathological awe and comfort of death, there are often hidden conspiracies about life. How people should live is driven by death every minute and every second. So people lost the first impulse to live. Why is the vow of the two boys to dance on the grave? This kind of fanatical behavior, which violates customs and disrespects death, contains praise for life. Life is every minute and every second, not the length of the future. It preaches a completeness and urgency.
In the novel "Dancing on My Grave", Barry, a Jewish boy who died suddenly, claims that he just didn't want to waste every minute and every second. Hal made a list of what he did during the seven weeks with Barry: eight books, four movies, one hundred and nineteen meals, five letters, four overnights, six gifts, and- -Fifty-five real sex. This should be an explosion of vitality, even for a 16-year-old adolescent.
Ou Rong does not let go of every detail expressing the sexuality of a beautiful boy, including the morning erection, the shots of the feet in the bath, the plot of being stripped by David's mother and praising his private parts that can really make his mother proud, and all kinds of decadent scenes. .
Out of inertia, we often dive into a lifeless void, avoiding all kinds of harm from reality. Ha'er is clearly a boy who is actively looking for "magic beans" in his heart. As for the metaphor of "Magic Beans", it must be easy for everyone to understand what it is talking about based on the plot of the novel. Because the novel did not give any label to the love and sex between the two boys from beginning to end. After searching twice, Ha'er obviously had the idea of giving up. He has a sexy male friend who can make his heart beat, but they are just good friends. But Barry's death caused him a radical change in his life, his gender, and his friends.
The disagreement between Har and Barry on love is significant. This is especially important in adolescence. One is constantly in possession, one is tired. Because the novel belongs to the field of youth literature, this novel does not dig into the description of possessiveness and jealousy in love like Proust. Har's own diary-like description just transforms the love of the two boys into time, a pragmatic sense of fulfillment that can be measured by mathematics. Because the time is too short, we can’t know from Harr’s narrative how Barry feels Har’s kind of strong possessive love, and we don’t know that this kind of strongly possessive love is How annoying Barry is.
Love is to imagine the other side fictionally, and then to possess it. What you possess is in fact a thing, and what you fantasize about is still your own imagination. Barry, in the words of his mother, brought home many of his friends who had capsized before Harr, and made many friends who had a bad influence on him. Ha'er is just a stage of his enjoyment of love. Strangers are full of excitement and imagination. Then, Barry satisfies Harr’s love imagination, and Harr also satisfies the excitement of Barry’s strangeness. Then it is trying to possess and get bored, and the old tune of love begins to replay: loyalty and betrayal. These girls who are involved in their relationship have already analyzed in detail for Ha'er.
It seems that only death can turn this short and beautiful love into eternity. Hal said, maybe Barry, in pursuit of speed, finally caught up with the speed itself, enjoying the eternal vacuum of the speed bubble. But in any case, we can't know Barry's thoughts.
The plot where Ha'er is dressed as a girl uses a third-person narrative. The psychological process of dancing on the grave has become Ha'er's psychological motivation to continue to transform herself. From the defamiliarization of the third-person narrative to the first person, it can be said that it is a psychological transformation from strangeness to acceptance of the enlightenment of sexual orientation. The process of acceptance of sexual orientation is always accompanied by a breakthrough in the defense of gender psychology. This is the theme of Ou Rong's short film "Summer Sling Skirt".
Ou Rong's film Frenchizes the adaptation of a British novel. From the original work, he found the combination of goodness and sensibility that French film is best at. Not only that, the homosexuality factor in the movie, like Oden’s name in the novel mentioned is WH, and the name of the handsome guy whom Shakespeare gave his most beautiful sonnet is also WH. Ou Jong was adapted into French gay poets Verlaine and Rimbaud. At the end of the homosexual love between the two friends, the movie becomes the relationship between Harr and the drunk who he first met, which is also very profound. The lively farce in the novel, the gang fight scene, was cut to the simplest level, removing the mentality of the British who hate their own people and like foreigners. I thought it would be embarrassing to dance on the grave, but it didn't look embarrassing, whether it was dance or music.
From the storyline in the report, two boys quarreled for a girl. One of the boys died in a car accident while trying to chase the other boy. In "Dancing on My Grave", it became "Dancing on My Grave". "Live in the moment" concept of love, don't waste every minute of love. If you are tired, die in the indulgence of love and let the one you love dance on your grave. Those who are alive, practice their youth covenant, and then continue to seek new love. In this way, the possession of Harr and the boredom of Barry in the novel are even solved. In the absence of homosexuality in a moral relationship, I am afraid that only a girl can smoothly construct a tense sexual relationship between two boys. Only death can bring love to a climax. Only dancing on the grave can conceptual love be turned into a rebellious real. Love.
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