Ang Lee's technique is consistent, delicate and convergent, but with great inner tension. I didn't see it as "absolutely", but it was indeed a good movie. Talking about gay love, but gay love is just a background, what he wants to explore is the topic of general love.
What is the nature of love? I think it is to admit that the other party is unique, unique, and irreplaceable. The love that moves us must be individual. Humans increasingly feel that everything is replaceable. There is no single commodity anymore. As long as you have money, you can buy the same or better things. Even personalized products are the individualization of large industrial designs, such as customized clothing. Scientific research has found that even in terms of personality, what we love is often a personality type, and the substitutability is also high. A lot of the only love that I thought can be found in other people. We like movie stars one after another. At the time, we all felt that they were the only ones, and they changed afterwards. In a certain sense, they were also a kind of change of heart.
But the strange thing is that people can only be moved when they feel that the other person completely loves themselves as an individual. Irreplaceability and uniqueness are the signs of love.
So there is a question, how do we express or express our love. It seems that everyone in their daily life wonders whether their lover and the person next to their pillow love them, and to what extent. Although the flowers and promises of Valentine's Day are so overflowing, they seem to have little effect on solving this problem. It is difficult for rich and powerful people to believe that others are the individuals who love them. We are always suspicious of those who say that they love us. We need confirmation, but we are always suspicious.
There are routines for expressing love in art, some of which we are already familiar with.
1. Show love with great sacrifice. The value of a thing is measured by the other values you are willing to give up for it, which is very in line with the principles of economics. Love must be non-utilitarian, but love often needs to be expressed utilitarianly in sacrificial materials. Of course, the most powerful thing is sacrificing one's life, which is sorrow. But poor art always uses the most exaggerated sacrifices to express love, which almost numbs us.
2. To express love with the intensity and persistence of pain. If getting love is ecstasy, losing love is bound to be pain, so the amount and length of a person's pain is also our standard for measuring love. So poor art always exaggerates the pain of losing love. For example, in Qiong Yao's novels, decades of pain and constant change have become a kind of dream talk.
The brilliance of Brokeback Mountain lies in expressing love by denying and suppressing love. ENNIS has always wanted to restrain this love, but failed. His normal family life collapsed because of the arrival of JACK four years later, showing the power of this love. He has always wanted to control love in a certain part of his life, such as several trysts a year, but he still ruined his normal life and he can no longer fall in love. "Brokeback Mountain" is about using will to defeat love. And the power of love is revealed in the failure of the will. Similarly, JACK also wanted to use other alternatives to forget ENNIS, but it was also unable to succeed.
Two tough cowboys, in a sense, are ashamed to express love (even heterosexual), so they try to deal with love in a masculine way, but their love that only points to each other’s individuality is in a feminine sense. Heart love.
The great part of this film is here. It talks about suppressing love, controlling love, and defeating love with will. And in this process, to show the power of love, to show the spiritual quality of love.
How to get to know people's life and the place of love in it? Any positive expression of love is light and unbelievable. But depression can show the true quality of love.
Ang Lee does not want to show homosexuality, the taboo of homosexuality has become the best background for expressing repressive sex.
In modern society, it is more and more difficult to express love. Because there are fewer and fewer external obstacles, and love without obstacles will become light and flamboyant, and we cannot confirm the existence of love in it.
3.5
Li Ang said that if he wants to show great love, he must have great resistance.
Homosexuality is probably the most suitable, because the mainstream society started, although there are still many people opposed to it. But tolerating same-sex behavior is politically correct in the United States.
But it is assumed that if it is filming pedophilia, incest and other subjects, no matter how moving the film is, it will not be accepted by the mainstream society. Most people can't watch it at all.
So Ang Lee is not going to shoot gays. Homosexuality is just his background.
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