MAX and his DANCE boyfriend seem to have a very calm relationship. Loving each other, since there has never been so affectionate words, but it has become a part of each other's lives. Max betrayed his family and lived with her boyfriend again. Perhaps this is a human instinct. When you are helpless, you will be more indulgent and kill your life, as if you want to find a kind of joy in the flourishing age. It's just that this search is too ideal.
Finally, the Nazi suppression of homosexuality came. MAX and her boyfriend began to "exile". They lived in the forest and her boyfriend worked on a construction site. MAX tried to get the two to leave Berlin and fly high. He is tired of this city, maybe he can really fall in love with the man next to him by leaving here, and only after he has left the environment of indulgence, will he understand how stupid and squandering the waves he has. In any case, while fighting for his departure, he also hopes to take his boyfriend with him, even if it is a bigger betrayal afterwards.
The Nazis found them and took them on the train to the concentration camp. That is the territory they don't know. Here, leaving Berlin, leaving the paradise of indulgence, MAX betrayed his boyfriend, "killed" him because of betrayal, and completely violated his humanity because of betrayal. He survived and is no longer gay. He raped a girl just to "prove" that he was not gay.
MAX met HORST, it was not about seeing the truth in adversity. But when MAX started that extremely boring job, he found that he needed someone to accompany him, otherwise he would go crazy, otherwise he would continue to surrender to this human abuse. He bribed the officer to let HORST come and work with him, and the two of them don't seem to be alone.
Like all gay movies, two troubled and lonely people are bound to fall in love with each other. It's just that they can't hug, kiss, and touch each other. They possess each other like so-called "spiritual companions", possessing void bodies and definite souls.
They embraced each other like this, using words and "feeling". Standing upright with each other, they can't even look at each other, but an ambiguity has spread across each other's bodies.
"The Feelings That Life Cannot Bear", the weird translation of this movie. But it is true that this is an emotion that MAX cannot bear. HORST loves him deeply, but MAX seems to know that at a certain critical time, he will betray the companion in front of him.
Like all "concentration camps" movies, they began to outline the various things that happened after escaping from the concentration camps. They began to imagine another place in this world where they could truly embrace each other and would not be so obscurely immersed in speech to express the "ambiguity" of ambiguity. . But they love each other, don't they? Such a boring job, every day is the same-move the stone over there, then move it back, so it goes round and round. Perhaps this is not the most terrifying. Slowly, even for two people, they lose new topics to dispel this terrible repetition.
"I heard that there will be sardines tomorrow"
"I don't like to eat sardines"
...
"I heard that there will be sardines flakes tomorrow"
"I don't like sardines flakes"
... I
wonder if this conversation has continued several times, maybe they all know all this It has been repeated repeatedly until it is as boring as this job.
As with all tragic gay movies, there must be someone leaving.
Before being shot, Horst stroked his eyebrows with his right hand. He once told MAX that this action means "I love you". This is an old-fashioned plot arrangement, but it is a timeless touch. Because they will face life and death, because they really love so deeply, even if they can only "hug each other like this". The Nazi officer killed Horst in a despicable way, and MAX witnessed all this, but he could not resist, just like he tried to prove that he was not gay on the train. His body is a yellow six-pointed star, a symbol of Jews, not a pink triangle, which belongs to "sexual perversion." He is unable to stop everything that is about to happen, which can be regarded as a kind of betrayal, because they are lovers who have each other's bodies. MAX has repeatedly endured the "love" he couldn't bear. He has always said that he will be responsible for xxx, he will be responsible for everything, but in this powerful world-promises, or these turbulent emotions are powerless.
Well, like all romance movies. After HORST died, MAX held him in his arms. Perhaps this is the most "horrifying" part of this movie. They hug each other. This is the first time that MAX can truly feel the body of HORST and pass his warmth to his lover, even if he is no longer answering " Yes, I feel the warmth." He seems to have said all the ambiguous statements that he usually said when they are isolated from each other, but this time it is true, he hugs HORST. Carrying an unbearable love on his back, he put Horst in the sandpit, "gently".
After that he continued his work. Stone, moved to the left, and then moved to the right. The Nazis succeeded, and they couldn't bear such a job alone. They would definitely collapse and go crazy. MAX changed into HORST clothes, stitched with pink triangles. Go to the grid, and then die as one's true identity-homosexuality.
Some people may think that the two people in the play are very boring to commit adultery, but such "hugs" and "caressing" are more "innocent" than any kind of love affair. Perhaps sex itself defies the world's most decadent "morality". What's more, the sex that is always discriminated against before the same sex? But this time, the two men blended each other's bodies in this way. This movie is not justifying homo's name, nor can it challenge any kind of morality. No one can advertise how pure and noble the love they hold. The movie can't do this, and MAX finally embraced his boyfriend to truly occupy his body, rather than a "noble" soul.
In fact, we can embrace each other in this way, and we can look at "the slack of the body" and "the incomparable nobility of the soul" in another way. The two can actually be integrated with each other, as long as two people really need each other, as long as two people love each other deeply, and their lives are only left with each other-boring work and hell-like concentration camps. MAX in the concentration camp is no longer wandering, he guards his rock and the man walking back and forth in front of him. They are so noble that they never touched before death, but they have all of each other in life.
It is no longer the Berlin where the film first started, but a small space and time, so small that MAX and HORST are the only ones to each other, they are two people who fit each other spiritually and completely fit each other.
It is because they fit perfectly so that they can caress each other with words-they are one, and they are the only one.
For the Nazis, homosexuality is as dirty as the Jews. But in this movie, their integration with each other is so holy.
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