The swarm

Vivien 2022-10-30 21:42:53

Charlie visiting the doctor's house for the first time is fascinated by the three boxes of bees in the doctor's yard. Jean tells Charlie that as long as you tell the bees your secret, the bees will never leave you. So Charlie told the bees - my mom was always sullen.

Living in a damp little house, being abandoned by her husband, unable to pay her rent, returning letters to her Manchester home, carefully controlling a weaving machine, being fired... Lydia is indeed a melancholy woman who cannot be happy. . When the camera showed Lydia's smoke rings blowing out, the streets with excessive steam, the gloomy sky, and the greasy, damp hair of the asshole husband, everyone could see that it was a tragedy.

But at this moment, Jean appeared. Charlie fights with other boys and Annie, Charlie's father's sister, takes him to the clinic. The thoughtful Jean saw through Charlie's clumsy lies at once, comforted him, enlightened him, and gave him a diary and a book called "Heidi". In this way, Charlie connected Jean and Lydia together.

Lydia finally had support and emotional sustenance. Jean accepts Lydia and Charlie when their landlord kicks them out of the house. The three lived together, and Lydia eventually fell in love with Jean. Jean helped Lydia blow off the bee on her neck, Jean peeked at Lydia taking a bath... No one could resist the temptation of loneliness, the silk fabric skirts rubbed together, and the lips were full of blurred feelings, and the two finally crossed over in that The ditch that should not be crossed in the times. Two naked women were lying on the bed, their eyes were filled with tenderness and their love for each other. This kind of pure love between men and women is far from impossible to achieve - the love of fish and water that doesn't care about the flesh, only love for each other. Care about the comfort of spiritual communication.

However, the town can't hide too many secrets. Lydia and Jean were discovered by Charlie in a morning love affair. Charlie ran back to his father's house in a panic and told everything he saw. There are no more secrets in the town - Jean's house has a big "DYKE" (dirty dyke, dirty lesbian) written in ink outside Jean's house, no one sees Jean's doctor anymore, Charlie is cut off from his mother Lydia, Lydia Walking down the street is also being pointed at.

Tragedy begins, dirge plays. Charlie's father's sister, Charlie's aunt Annie, and the black boy George's underground romance was discovered by the family because of Annie's pregnancy. The father and father's sister chose to find an old woman to force Annie to have an abortion. The night when Annie, who had a free personality, was forced to have an abortion, Charlie covered her ears helplessly, but she couldn't stop Annie's screams coming from the hut next door. An hour later, my father's sister visited her sister lying on the bed, but unexpectedly found that her sister was bleeding profusely from her lower body. Charlie panicked again, so she ran to the doctor Jean's house overnight-Jean rushed to operate on Annie, while Lydia was in a hurry. And Charlie and Charlie opened up for the first time and talked a lot of truth.

Charlie said: "You promised me to tell the truth." And Lydia said to her son for the first time so calmly: "The truth is I love Jean."

Charlie was out of his mind for the first time when the grumpy father came to the door that night to get his son back and tried to rape Lydia, he bravely ran into the yard, shook the bee box, and shouted "" wake up". All three boxes of bees are now pouring out, flying towards the house - driving Charlie's dad away.

That is the night, almost everything will return to peace. Charlie understands and forgives the same-sex love between mom Lydia and doctor Jean, who pulls Annie back from the brink of death. The next morning, when Jean dragged her tired body back home, she lay down beside Charlie and Lydia, who were sleeping, hugging them tightly.

The summer is over, the bees are in their boxes, and Charlie and Lydia are finally leaving the place. When they said goodbye at the train station, Lydia and Jean finally kissed bravely without caring about the eyes of the people around them. Charlie just stood by and watched quietly until the "All aboard" began to urge, and Charlie shouted "Mum ", the two talents reluctantly left each other's arms, looked at each other and smiled. Farewell to Charlie and Lydia, the coolest scene in the movie is Jean, dressed in orange trousers, black booties, and gray long sleeves, walking out of the station without looking back. People on the platform are looking at Jean, but at this time Jean doesn't care anymore - her back is lonely and powerful.

The town returned to peace, Jean's clinic became lively again, the "DYKE" on Jean's house was wiped off, and the brave Annie chose to fly away with George.

I am grateful that this person has appeared in my life. She may only exist for a short period of time, only for a summer, so short that these things that have happened are not enough to talk about, but just because of this person, some people's lives It's been completely different since then.

People walked in and walked away, but something was different.

The film is well done, whether it is a dark town street or Jean's big house, the layout of the scene is unique; the soundtrack is also very good, the soundtrack of cello and piano enhances the texture of the film and makes the story more layered. The temperament of the two heroines is a cold loneliness, and there is no sense of disobedience when they are put together. Although the configuration is not as good as "Carol", which is also a Ji film, the output is more sincere and touching emotionally. .

Especially good, the gay love I wanted to see.

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Tell It to the Bees quotes

  • Dr. Jean Markham: You should tell the bees your secrets. Then they won't fly away.

  • Dr. Jean Markham: This town is too small for secrets