Throughout the whole movie, if we pay attention to the changes, it is easy to find that the whole movie is immersed in dimness or even darkness. The low music does not have any joy or relaxation, but seems to urge some kind of dormant danger to wake up. . We endure such repression and come gradually and it is also the relaxed and happy part of our hope, or happiness. The boy who walked over the wall to the bar in the dark was called Nemo. He was still in college. He was a Palestinian. I think he was an extremely ordinary Palestinian boy, except for his sexual orientation. The director does not need to emphasize the ordinaryness of Nemo. I think the director did this to express his own point of view. The situation like Nemo is too common, very common in Palestine, and whether people know that is another matter. . Love at first sight in the bar, and this feeling is always very good, and it is precious in the dark tone. It was Moi, a young Israeli lawyer who greeted Nemo. Like all love at first sight, they chatted aimlessly, but in this chat they all feel good to each other.
Here I want to specifically mention a detail that I have noticed, and the development of this detail based on the subsequent story highlights its importance. In the bar, Mustafa, a comrade who also came from Palestine, said to the young man, "It's almost eleven o'clock, and anyone who doesn't want to be discovered by the family can leave quietly now." It sounds like a joke at first, but combined with the later stories, we will find that this is not just a joke, but to a certain extent, it is the truth. It is to remind those young people who have turned over from Palestine to be careful not to let The family found themselves on this side, Israel’s side. The director's handling of such small details, if we pay attention, we can realize the tension, danger and even terror contained in it. Think about it, these young people who turned to Israel from Palestine at night without everyone else, the price they would have to pay to be happy in this bar for a while, we can hardly imagine, but we are deeply impressed by such many details. Feel these.
I don't want to say that this is a love story, but this story is indeed caused by love. I think what the director wants to express is not just the feelings between the two men. He wants to tell us that these things are happening far away from Palestine and Israel, far away from people living there, and gay audiences, and they seem to be accustomed to it. . In my impression, what I know more about Israel is still about Jews. I may have learned some about this new and hard-fought country from Hannah/Arendt’s perspectives and books, from Paul Celan’s poems, and More of it is actually a novel by Amos Oz. For Palestine, I only know that it is an Arab country. They have always had frictions and tensions with Israel. I admit that my understanding of these two distant countries is scarce and limited, but through this movie we seem to be able to see everything in the two countries Palestine and Israel over the years: antagonistic tension, hatred, and conflict. , Terrorists... even more. This is an important mission of this movie. The director is trying hard to show us-people like me who know very little about these two countries-these two countries over the years. The director used the relationship between the two men, which made this movie that shocked me even more shocked. Perhaps such a relationship can more reflect the real situation.
As far as I know, Israel is very inclusive and tolerant of gays. Their cities will also have their own gay pride parade. They will paint the zebra crossings on the road in rainbow colors during Gay Pride Month, and even a few cities have been rated as right. Comrades are the most friendly... but Palestine is the opposite. I think this is what we can imagine. Most of the people living in Palestine are Arabs. They are Moslin and believe in Islam. This kind of culture and belief makes them treat their comrades. Has a great dislike, and even sentenced to death. And we also see these in the movie (although by terrorists). Through the performance of the Nemo family after discovering his comradeship, we can truly feel the atmosphere of the whole society and our views on this matter. Nemo's mother and brother use extreme extreme words like "great shame", "except ashamed...", and because of Nemo's identity, it may affect the younger sister's future marriage...that is to say, Nemo's gay identity will be almost completely Destroy this home. In fact, it is not difficult to imagine that when those people killed Mustafa mercilessly, when the Israeli secret police used Nemo to be their eyeliner, when Nemo’s family took him at that moment When he was an enemy, when Nemo's brother asked him to escape and he was never allowed to come back... We can feel these in many details and stories. The director is too focused on these, and he almost urgently wants to tell us. And these are just the beginning of misfortune.
Nemo was expelled from his home and his country. He could only go over the wall to find Roy in another country, but the secret police used Nemo's gay status and threatened to revoke his pass to make him the eyeliner. In one paragraph, we can already feel that the misfortune has already begun. Nemo stayed at Roy's house and became a person with nothing and nothing. He was driven away by his own country and family, living in someone else’s country and a country with ulterior motives for him, as he said to Roy in the car, "There is nothing but you and me", and in such a difficult and internal and external situation Before hindering, the relationship between the two of them will inevitably appear to be friction. So when the Israeli secret police arrested Nemo's elder brother who had hidden weapons, such friction finally broke out. This is a time to test two people. Nemo feels that Roy doesn't understand the status quo of his situation and his family. He must leave Palestine and Israel. There is no place for him in these two countries; and Roy may feel that Nemo is not honest with him, and the emotional betrayal is the most deadly, so the two collapsed when they were unable to reconcile each other.
The story has been completely plunged into darkness by this time, and the images in the second half are all developing in the dim and desolate city. Nemo began to flee, the secret police chased him, and finally found Roy. At this time, the two of them were facing two countries, two giant mountains like steel, and they were powerless to each other. The director's inability to portray the characters in the story is impressive. It seems that the whole camera will turn, people bumping like headless flies, there is no way out, just like the last building they met again, there is no second exit. In the dim background, Nemo was sitting on the side of a remote road with his hands covering his face. Roy yelled in the car and asked himself "what to do". There would be a kind of despair on both of them. Born in a relationship, so more helplessness and pain. Even as viewers, we don’t know what to do next, where should they go? As for the relationship between the two of them, we seem to have forgotten at this moment, but it is still the most concerned.
We don't know what the ending of the story will be, but the movie will always have an ending. Nemo ran to the dock and prepared to smuggle to France, Roy assured him that he would rush to see him as soon as possible. Roy was in the cell of the secret police. The secret police asked him where Nemo was. He is a safety hazard, and Roy tries hard to explain to him that Nemo is not a safety hazard. In the conversation between the secret police and Roy, there was a sentence from the former that deeply influenced me, perhaps because I had heard many words that mean the same thing before. The secret police said to Roy:
"You have crossed the line today, and you have chosen the opposite position."
I don't know how other viewers will feel when hearing this sentence, but I can't help but think of the past, Now and even in the future, China is all around us, and these news papers often say this sentence. The "opposing position". At this time, the secret police no longer thought that Roy and Nemo were just in love. What stood behind them were two countries where the relationship was tense and opposing, and the relationship could not be so relaxed. There are too many things on it-whether they want it or not-and maybe this is why I say this movie is far beyond the so-called "romance" or "gay movie". category.
I call the name of this essay "The Dark Night of Two Countries", I want to be able to express what I want to say and try to make it clear. This love story between two men is like the small tube of the idiom "peeping a leopard in a tube". What we have to do is to spy on the "leopard" behind it. The director showed us the anxiety and fear of comrades living there, and what is implied is the long friction, confrontation and hatred between these two countries. In the final analysis, everything in the movie is because of these.
To some extent, the film is also exploring the relationship between the individual and the country. When a country stands on a certain position, does it mean that the people living in it must also stand on this position? This question is not the most important in this story, but it is always asking all audiences. As a Palestinian, Nemo yearned for and hoped to go to Israel separated by a wall for personal reasons. As an Israeli, Roy fell in love with the people of his country's rival country. The love of these two men is difficult to maintain under the hatred of each other's countries, which is almost doomed. When demanding a flimsy person in a large unit like a country, resistance is necessary, but it is almost useless. Although it is said that individual people make up the country, whether the country can truly maintain and respect these small basic units is another matter. At least in this story the director showed us the negative answer. . We must be sacrificed and replaced in the context of the country. As for whether we are just and fulfilling our country's responsibilities, that is also another question.
In the dark nights of the country, all those who live in it will be shared by these dark nights. The hatred of the state is ultimately displayed on individuals, rather than being borne by the abstract concept of the state. Just like those soldiers who participated in the war, they had to bear the pain and many deaths of the war, but for the war it was not. Nothing to bear.
But I still want to say a few more words to express my understanding and thoughts more completely. Although the love in the story is finally annihilated in the shadow of such a magnificent thing as the country, we must still say about love and love between the same sex-even if it is an old-fashioned argument. The reason why love is beautiful may be attributed to its purity and beauty to some extent. Of course, the outside world will also have pressure but it will not raise the issue of "antagonism" in the country, as if the difference in opinions is the issue of "class". What we remember in the film is the lingering relationship between Nemo and Roy. The relationship between them is just like Tchaikovsky’s performance in the music "Romeo and Juliet". It is long and warm, beautiful and beautiful. Happiness, but the movie is still the same as this sad story in the end. Romeo can only leave Juliet, and Juliet can only use suspended animation to wait for his lover who does not know when to return. We seem to be able to see some connections in these two stories.
Finally, I want to remind myself to pay attention to the English translation of the movie "Out in the dark", and I hope you can also notice...
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