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I can say that I am a complete music blind, because I rarely listen to songs, so I don’t know much about the queen band. Before watching the movie, I don’t even know who the members of this band are. The only thing that has the impression is " The climax of the song "We will rock you", thanks to this, can instead look at the movie or the band with a first encounter.
After watching the movie, I read some film reviews. I also watched the Queen’s performance video, Freddy’s interview, and the interview with the lead actor Lamy from station b. It’s difficult to make a biographical movie shine, because There are always so many "historical" images for you to compare and contrast. If you don't restore them enough, you will lose many points of resonance, and if you delete them too much, they will be labeled as not respectful enough. One of the criticisms that appeared in the film reviews of some music fans is that the large-scale re-enactment of past concerts in the film turned the film into a large-scale mv editing scene. I think there is some truth in this, but for me, I am ignorant. For the audience, this also has some advantages, that is, it can reproduce the most classic scene of the band and perform charm snipers. Obviously I was shot.
I have no way to comment on the music and the creative process in the film. I will probably only praise the shallow words "This song is really nice". What makes me want to write something is about Freddy's gay identity. . Because the thesis is about Susan Sontag, homosexuality and AIDS are sensitive topics that cannot be avoided. When opening the topic, a teacher told me that he doesn’t like Sontag because she is a crazy woman, but I Take this sentence as a compliment, because I think the teacher saw Sontag’s wanton vitality, just as her son David Reeve described Sontag with the word "enthusiasm", "she I want to experience everything, taste everything, go to everything, do everything.” And Freddie also made me feel the power of the word, the passion for music “I'm going to be what I was bornto be. A performer. .. "Just as Sontag was determined to be a writer since she was a child, writing is her way of participating in reality." What I love, and to a large extent attract me to write, is the way to focus on the world. You are An instrument that is as ensemble to reality as possible. "Freddy firmly believes that he is a natural performer, and music has truly become his way of understanding the world. But even though they are so sure about the field they want to work in, they have been lingering about their natural sexuality. As a pioneer fighter, Sontag has never publicly stated that her homosexuality has been criticized for not being honest enough, but I think she has loved both men and women. What she loves is not gender. Similarly, Freddy has his life’s love-Mary, although there are cuts in the film: Freddy asks Mary if he is double, but Mary definitely says that he is gay, so the flow of sexuality makes the gender blurred Unclear. In the 1960s and 1970s, coming out was obviously facing great pain and pressure. In the film, Paul, in order to gain the trust of the fragile Ferretti, revealed that his pain as a queer gained the resonance of Ferretti. Cool Queer culture is closely related to lgbt, but because I take Sontag as my observation, I replaced it with "camp" to write a little bit of my own thoughts.
The film’s description of Freddy’s change in sexual orientation is very metaphorical. The fat middle-aged man in a white vest, naked eye contact, and public toilets with the “men” logo. Although I don’t know the actual process, I don’t. I like this perspective too much, because it is obviously common sense: public toilets are a common place for men’s fast-food sex, which is too sensual. I hope Freddy’s confirmation of his sexuality is beyond the original impulse, but it seems in the film It was not until the end that he made a sublimation from Jim, and Freddie found "True Love". However, the actor Lamy performed well in the process of Freddy's transformation, from the initial anxiety and guilt towards Mary, to the default assistant arrangement of male prostitutes and the beginning of perfunctory Mary, to the small-scale half-hearted relationship with his friends. The public sex is backward, some "unbridled" indulged in it. Before watching the movie, I didn't know Freddy's gay identity. At the beginning, Mary put on eyeliner for Freddy in women's clothing. Freddy had decorative movements: pursing his mouth, gestures, etc. (Here I would like to compliment Lamy, although he deliberately added some "feminine", but he captured certain qualities) When the band went to see the agent in the lizard outfit, I felt familiar things: exaggerated, pretentious , A stylized camp fun. "The Camp taste reveals the truth of a generally unrecognized taste: the most refined form of a person’s sexual attraction (and the most refined form of sexual pleasure) lies in the opposite of his gender; in those The most beautiful thing in a man with a masculinity is something with femininity; in a woman with a femininity, the most beautiful thing is something with a masculinity... and Camp's masculinity The taste of a woman or a feminine man is similar. It is something that looks completely different, but it is not: a hobby of exaggerated characteristics and personality style. "This is Sontag’s "About Camp" For the description of Camp’s taste in the ninth section of Notes, the formation of stylization always needs to exaggerate a certain personality, so as to make it rise and externalize, so it fits this kind of taste and homosexuality in particular (sometimes I see some Comrade’s homepage, they have a very strong desire for expression and personal style, but not all): the sensibility between the two sexes. And this kind of strong personality is necessary for an icon, because the more obvious his personal style, the more attractive he can be. Regardless of whether Freddy’s stage performance or costume style, it shows that he can grasp and become a central figure. The key: special.
Sometimes we find that many people in the fashion or literature and art circles have homosexual identities, but I don’t think this is a symbol that can be romanticized, although it has not yet eliminated the stigma. Although people in both "Green Book" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" think that black or gay elements have been added because of a certain political correctness, I still think this is a kind of progress, at least it is a kind of " correct". Because both the confession that Dr. Shirley yelled in the rainstorm or the passage that Freddie vented to his teammates all pointed out that they could not gain a sense of identity, but the difference was that Dr. Shirley chose to be extremely self-disciplined and reject others. And Freddie chose to indulge in sensuality and paralyze himself. Freddy’s loss is the absence of his father from the most fundamental source of the family. In Lacan’s view, the failure of the "father’s name" led to the loss of the subject’s self-identity, and Freddy returned to the family in the end. Reconciliation with his father is also a reconciliation between him and himself at the end of his life (maybe part of the reasons for homosexuality can be analyzed by this, but I think it is a bit far-fetched, because I still think most homosexuality should be born).
#Not finished yet, I'm really too much nonsense, I will fill it up next time
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