Although there are similar plots to many movies of this type-entanglements between lovers, family conflicts, ice melting journey, parting and memories, the disputes between mother and child are indeed quite exciting and give a lot of information, including The mother’s contempt for homosexual son’s love affair, the sadness of her son’s failure to tell the cause of his lover’s death and the adoption of 15-year-old David, and the son’s incomprehension of his mother more from a certain degree of inferiority to his own identity, even because of this. Form a self-comfort similar to Ah Q's spirit.
Torch Song refers to sad love songs. Trilogy is a trilogy. Why is it a trilogy? According to the three-stage structure of the movie (script), it seems to explain the three-part plot of the protagonist’s life. One is that the love with Ed is ultimately divided by the two people's different pursuits; the second is that the love with Alan ends with Alan's tragic death; the third is the kinship with his mother and David, and the mother will also leave. Just like Arnold's own statement "all so I don't have to ask anyone for anything", all of which he has or have had, what is left are memories, although it will be a little sad.
In addition, Harvey Fierstein, the actor of Arnold, is also the screenwriter of the film. It is a semi-autobiographical story based on his 15-year-old experience of becoming a drag queen.
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