People instinctively reject people who are different from themselves, and when this rejection escalates, it becomes bullying.
Billy has the best relationship with his mother, but a colder relationship with his father, and sometimes even hates his father in order to protect his mother. For some reason, one year his mother suddenly ran away from home. Out of desperation, he had to move to a small town in the south to live with his father. Here, to enter a new school and meet new friends.
On the first day of school, Billy showed everyone his true self, and as soon as he appeared, he attracted strange eyes from everyone. Because of his difference, he has also become the object of people's scorn and exclusion.
In the school, there are only two people who are willing to be friends with him, one is a talkative girl classmate, and the other is "Little Flip", the star of the school football team.
When bullying happened again and again, he once reported it to the teacher, but only received a cold response from the teacher: "Isn't it because you play too much?"
But he didn't want to hide his true self. So many times, all he thought was that his mother could come back and take him out of here, even if it was Mars, anywhere, except here.
When these unrealistic fantasies were shattered, he decided to go down the road of being himself, even if he could choose to disguise himself, but that wasn't the real Billy.
Too much drama, isn't it? Then I'll add some more drama, and from then on, his style will be more varied. At its most exaggerated, he dressed himself up as a zombie bride. This time, the ball of paper thrown at him turned into a waving fist that nearly killed him. At this critical moment, it was the "little flip" that saved him.
"Small Flip" is a star player of the school football team, with a handsome appearance, and is deeply loved by the majority of girls. He admired Billy's courage to be brave enough to be himself. He told Billy his story: "At the age of eight, I skipped a school football game and went to the comic book store, and my dad found me there. I've never seen my dad so angry when In the presence of all my friends, he took off my pants and slapped me so hard that I couldn't sit down for a whole week. And worse, he forced me to burn all my comic books, It's every one, man, I had an awesome Spider-Man 252 at the time, and it's worth it now."
But "Little Flip" is contradictory, or "realistic". While he admires Billy's freedom to be himself, he hopes that Billy will not be so "public" in school. Their relationship drifted further and further away, until one time it was said that they were cheating. This time, their relationship was completely cold.
After the relationship with "Little Flip" became stale, he returned home and unexpectedly found that his mother came back, which made him forget all the unpleasantness. He thought that his mother must have taken him away this time.
I never thought that my mother regarded money as more important than him. When I came back this time, I asked my father for money, and she said that she wanted to shed Billy who was still in her stomach. These conversations between mom and dad were all overheard by Billy, who was hiding at the door. Suffering from the departure of his friend and the selfishness of his mother, Billy's life seems to have fallen into a rock bottom.
But none of this knocked him down, but instead led him to make a surprising decision to run for the school's "Homecoming Queen." He told his only female friend, Duokoumei, his only female friend, and received her strong support.
Billy's biggest contender for "Homecoming Queen" is a straight daughter, Notre-Dame of Cancer, who usually tries to trouble him.
During the canvassing session, he changed his previous makeup and wore a suit, leaving only an unretouched face. And said the following: "You can say I'm a freak, no problem. I'm myself and you're all freaks, I mean...I think we're all worried, worried about us. Can we fit into the group, worry that once people find out who we are, they will reject us, flinch in fear, and worry that everyone will hate us.”
"Those little secrets follow us like shadows, each of us has a goal to fly, but some people fly silently in our hearts. So I ask you to take a look at the secret corner of your heart, the corner where your strange flags fly, And then raise it up loud and proud. You see, I know I haven't been at this school for a long time, but now I want to call for a new tradition that is inclusive, receptive, respectful. Love What you love, go your own way and be yourself"
Leilei thinks that this passage is the core idea of this drama. Although the reality may be more painful, more miserable, and more helpless, please don't give up the courage to be yourself.
There is a monster in everyone's heart. We are all freaks, and we are all who we really are.
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