Like in shame, everything presented is so simple, yet so rich in detail and emotion that it hits the hero's despair, whether it's because of sex addiction, love incompetence, urban loneliness, human frustration, or The indescribable emotions between siblings can hit you.
The story has only one line, and it all unfolds in Brandon, a man who lives alone in New York. He isolates himself and has no deep communication with people except sex. His sister's voice is present from the beginning of the film, and it is the only accompanying shadow of Brandon's loneliness.
Many people say that Brandon's shame and sex addiction stem from his secret incestuous desire for her sister, and many of the film's schedules refer to this claim. But it has never been confirmed. In fact, the film refuses to clarify the history and relationship between the two brothers and sisters. Only the details and dialogues between the two people make people constantly guess the rich and dark iceberg behind it.
The two of them should have been very close to each other when they were children, maybe they had broken that taboo line at a young age, but then they both grew up and Brandon came to the big city and wanted to live a decent and normal life. In life, my sister did not cross the hurdles of growth, like a willful self-destructive child, wandering around.
Talking about growing up here, it was actually revealed in the conversation between the two when Brandon finally asked her sister to move out. The sister accused him, do you think you are very successful if you have a job and a house of your own? Of course not, even as polished as any normal New York office worker, Brandon couldn't escape the lonely frustration and self-destructive tendencies of his sister. Otherwise why would he so desperately crave sex without emotion.
In the big city of New York, Brandon has always been alienated. He wiped his ass for his lascivious, dog-friendly boss who lived on the Upper East Side and had a family. Other than that, he had no friends. The humble dinner, the humble apartment, the dilapidated subway and block, the computer at work, the whole of his life.
Perhaps it's not just his secret desire for his sister that he really can't face and wants to escape, but her sister's open embrace of her unbearable self and her past. When he came to New York after isolating himself, all he wanted was a complete isolation from the unbearable past, isolating the humbleness and powerlessness in his heart, and he transferred this sense of shame about his own identity to the venting of his sexuality. But every time her sister appeared to him like a prototype baby, forcing him to have nowhere to go.
Brandon's boss once asked Brandon's sister, so you're from New Jersey (upstate New York, which seems to be ridiculed in the New Yorker's context), and his sister said yes, maybe Langdon had told his boss that he was from New Jersey. But when he was having dinner with the black female colleague, he said he was from Ireland. Compared with the proud tone of black female colleagues that they were born in Brooklyn and grew up in Brooklyn, the origin of the two brothers and sisters seems to be too unspeakable. It's part of the iceberg, we don't know, but the place is so bad that her sister finally convinces Brandon in desperation that we're not bad people, we're just from bad places. What is the bad place?
So, Brandon's sister sang New York, New York, so Brandon cried. these little town of blues are melting away, if I can make it there, I can make it anywhere He can never make.
It was the city that really broke his desperation. There are actually quite a lot of details about the city of New York in this movie, its morning, its night, its restaurants, its back alleys, its underground, when Brandon wanted to start a relationship seriously, he put the black man The female colleague received a hotel room overlooking New York City.
The big city is a place where modern people exist, a heterotopia. Part of the noir films of the 1950s liked to promote the ideal of the small town, depicting the big city as a sinful place, and Brandon and the others were the homeless people after the ideal of the small town was lost.
This is the iceberg behind this movie, a person and the city where he exists, there are desires, love, struggle, despair, and all ordinary human emotions.
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