Tom’s behavioral language has two basic driving forces, namely adoption and poverty. Being adopted gave him a lingering estrangement between him and his parents, and it was unilateral. Whenever there was a scene involving his mother’s pregnancy, it must be followed by a shot of Tom alone venting his uneasy heart, watching the tree branch knocking on the window on a snowy night. When his mother was about to give birth at night, he was so scared that he did not even dare to go to the hospital. When he saw Damian’s happy video call, he jealously opened the window and infected himself with the wind and cold. Mian's mother's mother-like care (not the unreasonable relationship that many people worry about with Damian).
The impact of poverty is even greater. The director does not hesitate to describe Tom's loneliness, feeding the horse, walking alone, crossing the bridge, waiting for the bus, and a black coat in the white snow slope. Poverty is accompanied by sensitivity, and sensitive people are more likely to get along with themselves rather than with others. But in the eyes of this classmate, he is absolutely a good young man with ideals. He knows better than Damian what he wants, studies hard, and humbly asks Damian's artillery for advice (agricultural knowledge).
Tom walks alone in the snow, cut directly on the video, not clear
Tom's feelings for Damian are complicated. Many of the scenes at the beginning of the film were his reluctantly looking forward to Damian in the corner of the lens. One was a poor boy who feeds horses and chopped materials on the farm and spends three hours to go to school every day, and the other is an officer. And the only child of the doctor, the family background is so different. At this time, Tom is envious of Damian, and a little favor, but it must be suppressed. In front of the blackboard, Damian scolded him for stupid words, which stimulated his sensitive nerves. For this reason, the two often used their hands. Between the three fights, there are interspersed with subtle descriptions of the relationship between the two, which are all the entanglement of emotion and youth. Until the cave was completely put down (with a cigarette), Damian saw Tom's full awakening of this relationship after naked swimming. In this relationship, Damian only needs to be awakened, and Tom also needs self-recognition. Before that sex scene, Tom finally faced and let go of his fear. Therefore, the director's handling of the feelings between the two teenagers is very delicate, and it is not the development of an ordinary Danmei drama that is completely lustful, so I do not agree with the interpretation of the film to beautify it.
The delicate relationship between the two
Subtle relationship
Damian, compared to Tom's large part of the one-man show, Damian has almost nothing, because his role itself does not have the nature of loneliness, which has a lot to do with his growing up environment. With a wealthy family background and no worries about food and clothing, this kind of environmental conditions makes it easy for people to ignore the discovery of their own hearts. Damian is thin, loves to cook, and has blue earrings. In fact, he has gay potential. Seeing Tom naked makes him doubt his sexuality. The appointment made him affirm his feelings for Tom (he should not be Like that friend, gay guys are not liked by all men). But after he understood it, he was quite frank and direct, without Tom's deliberately concealing and suppressing.
Damian with emotions and sorrows written on his face
Damian's mother is an absolute kind, she often doesn't charge money for medical visits, and taking her son's enemy home is the absolute driving force (assist) for several plot turns. At that time, I felt that the act of bringing Tom into the house was a bit deliberate, but the reason is still very sufficient. The mother likes the child, the child has dreams but the family conditions are too much, the son has a bad relationship with him, and the two of them will be caught in a fight. Fired (moving over can ease their relationship).
I don't know André Tehine, nor have I watched his previous movies, so I can't make a vertical comparison. Just as far as I understand it, he didn't want to describe class contradictions and differences in family background. At the beginning, it did have a bad effect in Tom's heart, but it also produced a driving force for the development of the plot. Damian’s mother was born in a poor family, which had a positive influence on Tom (when she saw the doctor for the first time, Tom asked her if she grew up locally). Tom was able to move to Mian’s house, largely because of Tom’s poverty. I want to break through the feelings of class, not all is impossible, there is no need to label.
The moment he picked up his sister in Tom's hospital, the brightest smile burst out on his face. He ran to Damian cheering on the hillside, took off his hat while kissing, he let go completely, and finally escaped from his own cage.
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