At the beginning of the movie, seeing this boy dressed as his mother and staggering on a bicycle, I feel so inexplicable, but at the same time there is a vague pain lurking in my heart, this is a self-distorted story of a boy whose mother died .
Chicken is the main thread that runs through the whole story, and it is also the link between Duncan and the mother in his memory. The chicken head is the way her mother taught him to calm himself, so every time he has the chicken head in the story is meaningful. Yes, the first time he had a chicken head was in the chicken coop. It was the chickens who had been raised with his mother who kept beating his young mind about the accidental death of his mother. He could never calm himself down. The chicken head in this scene The significance lies in his memory of his mother, which contains many emotional elements.
The second time I had a chicken head was when I was talking to my good friend Paddy. Speaking of which, I actually don't think this is a gay movie in the true sense. Even if there are same-sex plots interspersed, it is paving the way for the true meaning of this movie. Having said that, the second time Duncan told Paddy the chicken-headed secret and demonstrated it to him, the meaning here is to show that Duncan is willing to show his true temperament in this cruel reality even if he knows that he will be hurt. .
The third time he held the chicken head was when he was humiliated by Paddy's friends. At this time, he was subdued by the difficulties in reality. Can he really calm down in this situation? Seeing this, I always feel that Duncan has always consciously let himself fall into the abyss of his mother's death. Self-negativeness is too deep in the play, and even why he can have such a same-sex relationship with Paddy is because of the shyness in Duncan's own nature. And passive; Second Duncan's self-awareness of the transformation, let himself become a part of the dead mother, and even his own gender psychology is also distorted by it.
In the end he said: I am not gay.
Indeed he is not, he is just too deep into the play, and biting the chicken's head is the end of all this farce.
If life hits you hard, it's up to us to decide whether we want to be happier or more miserable, and let go of grief and let go of what it means to be self-compassionate. Life is still running and never stops for your wailing.
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