I understand the depression in Brandon's character.
I cannot assert that the director wants to discuss the life of immigrants in New York. But for the film, Brandon was born in Ireland and immigrated to the United States with his family as a teenager. He likes America in the 1960s, and he likes to joke about the protruding back of Neanderthal heads with girls. Brandon's married boss, David, met Sissy and asked her if she lived in Jersey. Sissy said she was a family from all over the world and had just come from Los Angeles. Brother and sister Brandon and Sissy were supposed to live together, but in the process of chasing their dreams, they became more and more lost. Faced with his sister being shamelessly played by the boss (the previous boss ordered cocktails and champagne, Brandon had to pay, and Brandon only wanted to order white water and main dishes on a date), but Brandon could only get angry with his sister, thinking she was a burden and an intruder. When his sister is away, Brandon is a cool and melancholy dark prince. You see how sexy and dangerous he looks when he goes to the bar to tease other people's girlfriends. But when his sister was around, he became a gentle nanny, cooking, paying, letting go of the sofa, and throwing away all the pornographic magazines. The sister was Brandon's "burden," a weakness he couldn't protect, a reminder of where he came from. No one else could sing "New York, New York" to Brandon's heart until he burst into tears. Brandon's desires are so strong, but his emotions are so empty; his sister, Sissy, is the only real thing in his emotional world, and the bondage he wants to escape. In fact, Brandon's mental state is very similar to that of many middle-class serial killers, and his sister is the only force that really keeps him in the world. In this regard, the two brothers and sisters are really dependent on each other.
Sissy's voice is so beautiful, but she can't stand on her own; Brandon is far smarter and more charming than his boss, but he can only swallow many things. Both were so depressed. Brandon's heart, perhaps like Sissy's arm, was scarred. But it's only when he's with his sister that Brandon can joke like a child from the bottom of his heart.
Many times people like the vast ocean and sky when they are young, and always feel that their hearts will eventually belong to happiness somewhere in the distance, but that happiness always stays in the distance. At the beginning, I would be proud to hone myself in loneliness, but after I got used to it, I became lonely. It's hard to forget the words of Sissy that rang in Brandon's ears when he was falling: "We are not bad people, we just come from bad place".
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