In the last shot, the male protagonist seemed to find someone was chasing him, and turned his head and ran away. In fact, even if the male protagonist is caught, what will he face? If you tie a person up, you won't die, but you can at least eat and drink in jail. But the male protagonist still chose to run away immediately. Finally, he achieved self-redemption in an extreme way and jumped out of the cycle of torture.
Theme - Cult Movie doesn't resonate with everyone
It's like a dose of medicine. People who don't have the disease can't evaluate the efficacy of the medicine. People with a fever who take stomach pain medicines are not cured, but feel more uncomfortable. To say that the medicines are not good is one-sided.
So out of the overwhelming majority of reviews, I give it a five. Because in my opinion, this film is positive and humane for some confused people of the same kind. The reason will be written below.
The male protagonist in the film is obviously a sexual minority group outside the mainstream. This sexual minority includes not only sexual orientation, but also sexual life, sexual psychology, and the three labels of homosexuality + sexual abuse + SM have been accurately positioned. And in reality, there are not a few people with the same label, nor are they limited to foreign countries or domestic ones. Society, like most film critics, rudely evaluates such people: disgusting, perverted, and twisted. I think almost no one has seen this movie and felt sympathy for the male protagonist.
Why not, you would say why sympathize with an indulgent person.
Yes, you will have sympathy for people who starve to death with anorexia, sympathy for people born with cleft lip, sympathy for people who commit suicide due to depression, but not for people who are indulgent. We look down at the pinnacle of morality and feel that they deserve it and take it upon themselves. But did anyone give him a hand when they first started sliding down the well? Does this society have a rope to help them? no.
The male protagonist is never enjoying sex, but is tortured by inextricable and morbid sex. In the sex with the police, the boss, and the girls, there is no sweetness, no laughing, pulling up your pants and leaving, just venting your desires.
Therefore, some people say that the show is too indifferent. In fact, the male protagonist has really loved him. He got the gloves of the second male (the person the male protagonist likes is tentatively set as the second male), which is the beginning of this secret love. On the way, I fell in love with gloves, and when I was playing with my colleagues, I smiled like a pure child, like we had a crush on someone in our school days, sweet and green.
He likes his face, his body; he likes his motorcycle, it's handsome, and he himself just works on garbage trucks. He also saw the second male professional swimming, the room was filled with trophies, he lived in a single-family house, and watched a TV alone in the bedroom. None of these men.
This kind of love, based on a strong sense of insecurity and the envy of happiness, is in a huge social gap (the male protagonist can be said to be a boy), without guidance, it will inevitably develop deformed and distorted. He relies on this fantasy lover like a dog depends on its master. Picking up his trash, stalking him, and just looking for a little solace in the torture that love can't get, but is even more obsessed and can't give up.
At the climax of the plot, the male protagonist kidnapped the second male and dragged him into the wild, with that perfect body at his fingertips. For the male protagonist of sex addiction, a field rape seems to be a natural fit.
But when the male protagonist saw the painful and panicked face of the second male, all the beautiful fantasies were shattered. He fled wildly, and even dug a hole under the isolation net, escaped from the male god, and escaped from human society.
Few film critics pay attention here, but I think this is the climax of the movie.
The male protagonist takes this beloved stranger as his spiritual support, but at the age of 19, he does not understand the more connotation of love. He just wants to plunder violently, thinking that as long as he ties the male second, he will have everything. But he was wrong, that kind of good sustenance like a phantom is not real.
In the face of crazy behavior, the second male is no different from the person he has slept with. It's all like a loop, find the fantasies, sex, find the next fantasies, sex... disgusting. In the end, the male protagonist escaped from human life.
The film director showed this state of sex addiction in front of the world, and ended with an absurd ending. Is it not an education and admonition to this minority group. It's just that this is a negative education (maybe even the first time for most people to receive such a negative education). This kind of education does not portray love and peace as usual, but subtly puts the answer in front of us and tells us: Are you sure you want to indulge in unrestricted sex? The ending was so miserable.
At the same time, it is a kind of spiritual consolation to make this kind of plot into a movie to resonate with the same group. Attention is the beginning of caring. In a society that lacks sex education, this movie is not one of the materials for self-study.
Plot - "revenge" is the biggest misunderstanding of the movie
The film introduction includes many comments that mention "revenge", but I think the male protagonist has never hated the male second, or even love, and love is extremely humble, humble and morbid. It is impossible for him to knock on the door openly and say to the second male: I like you, is it possible for us to be friends. But again and again hidden in the dark YY. This kind of plot is a true portrayal of some teenage homosexuality.
Some commented that this movie did not call for love, understanding, support, and tolerance without friendship. It was too dark. But this is the reality faced by most of the gay community.
The male protagonist of the whole film has no parents or close friends to support and enlighten. As far as sex education is concerned, the same is true for many people in the gay community. They need to keep their mouths shut to everyone, but the closest people are the ones who need to be kept secret the most, so they can only move forward in the dark.
When you are a teenager, you are sensitive and immature, and you are more likely to fall into low self-esteem when you receive negative evaluations from society about your own group. Therefore, many people started a kind of extremely inferior love during this period. The more inferior you are, the more you love; the more you love, the more inferior you are. The more inferior you are, the more likely you are to belittle your own dignity and morality and lose yourself.
The whole film runs through the dog as a clue, which is a hint to this kind of psychology. Dogs are dependent on their owners, and compared with other animals, they are more psychologically dependent.
When people, like dogs, need a master to rely on psychologically, this is even more of a self-lost. Of course, if someone finds a realistic balance in this relationship, living the life they like, there is no need for evaluation. But if it is as painful as the male protagonist, or even goes to commit crimes, it is particularly important to actively understand and change yourself.
Ending - Take off your gloves, love yourself first
The absurd ending of the movie is intriguing, and the male protagonist is wandering in the garbage in a gel coat. Eat garbage, drink sewage, vomit when sick, excrete like a dog. As he vomited, he violently took off his gloves and threw them aside, completely denying his sexuality and love. It's also a testament to the film's realistic educational nature.
Just imagine if in the last shot, the male protagonist completely turned into a dog and wore that pair of gloves, it must have strengthened this morbid love, and the artistic plot of the film was exaggerated and distorted.
But this is not reality. The reality is the blind pursuit of sex and fantasy love. Love others first to love yourself, to make love first to make a living. Don't ruin your life with your own hands.
In the last shot, the male protagonist seemed to find someone was chasing him, and turned his head and ran away. In fact, even if the male protagonist is caught, what will he face? If you tie a person up, you won't die, but you can at least eat and drink in jail. But the male protagonist still chose to run away immediately. Finally, he achieved self-redemption in an extreme way and jumped out of the cycle of torture.
Although the plot is exaggerated, we still have to reflect on it. We are accustomed to refraining from talking about sex in education and rejecting abuse for non-mainstream sexual concepts. Will it lead to more male protagonists? When a person is confused and confused because of issues such as homosexuality, sexual addiction, or liking sm relationships, can our society tolerate it and give him basic respect and freedom? Finally, I hope that if the movie takes place in today's society 20 years later, we can give the male protagonist a better ending.
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