Because at the beginning of the film, the director told us that the story was adapted from a real event, and for the audience who did not know the story that happened in the Hungarian countryside in Eastern Europe, the final ending of the film was abrupt and incomprehensible. There are two ways to watch this movie. The first is to ignore the real events and just watch the version of the story shown by the director. The second way is to find out the real story on the Internet after watching the movie. Better understand some of the obscure details of the film and the ideas the director wants to convey.
If we look at the film according to the first method, we will find that the film mainly revolves around the two. The first is the emotional entanglement between Zabi, Allen (two people) and Bernard. Through the camera, the director shows us the constant erotic lust between Zabi and Allen. The sexual tension that permeates them, while releasing the repressed and controlled love, also reveals hidden dangers from time to time. Especially when Bernard appeared, this sexual tension quickly became unstable, although we all know that the triangle is the most stable structure. In the movie, there is a scene where the three protagonists are sleeping on the same bed, the thunder is rumbling outside the house and the rain is clattering. At such an unstable moment, Bernard and Zabi's conversation, Aaron's Adam's apple rolling, are all precursors to a storm that could break out on the quiet plain at any time. The scene in which Allen and Bernard both tugged and kissed in the fight, seemingly developing a stable and secure relationship, was settled at dawn the next day with Bernard's departure. The dangerous tension between the three also ends with Bernard's departure, so the tension between Zabi and Allen is again the main danger in the film.
Sartre once had a play called "Confinement". In that hell like a hotel, three people who have conflicts with each other are trapped in it, and no one can leave. In such a tense tension, danger ignites. In the end, Sartre used the mouth of one of the protagonists to make his famous statement that "others are hell". In this film, the tension between Zabi, Allen, and Bernard did not end up bursting, but in reality it turned tragic. In the end, Bernard killed and dismembered Zabi and Alan, and the case caused a sensation throughout Hungary. This is the biggest difference between this movie and reality. In the movie, Bernard leaves peacefully, and in the end Allen kills Zabi under pressure. That's what I said above, when Bernard leaves, the focus of the movie goes back to the relationship between Zabi and Allen, and in this relationship, there's always an important determinant, Allen In Eastern Europe, Hungary, a village with devout religious beliefs. In a church scene before Allen kills Zabi, what the priest says is almost a pun to provide some sort of explanation for Allen's actions afterwards.
The director said at the premiere at the Berlin Film Festival: "If I told the true story, the motive for the film would be jealousy and madness, not social homophobia." In the religious Eastern European countryside, "people don't have any way to defuse homophobia, and it is homophobia that causes murder." The homophobic atmosphere in the film is almost always present, starting with Zabi's sudden appearance in this small Hungarian village far from town. . The youth of Murakami start isolating Zabi and Allen and warn the latter to stay away from Zabi; Allen is beaten and humiliated, even his mother can't handle it. There is a scene in the movie that gives a sense of how hard it would be for Alan to continue living in such a closed and religious village. Zabi went to Allen, and Allen's mother told him that Zaby was not here and begged him not to come here again, because they would continue to live here. From here, we may be able to see that the director wants to reflect the seriousness of homophobia through this story, and because of this, the final ending of the story becomes Alan killing Zabi.
In the movie, Allen is full of internal contradictions about his feelings for Zabi, because it all contradicts his religious beliefs for so many years in the first place. In the movie, he keeps going to church on time, listening to sermons and praying. Therefore, in his heart, there is always belief, and it is this belief that is the same as everyone else in Murakami that makes Allen still feel that he is the same as everyone else in the village. It was the same belief that led him to kill Zabi in the end. As the director said, people have no way to defuse homophobia, and the instability that the two constitute is more serious than the tension between Zabi and Allen or the instability between the three in the film. This is also a bit of instant gunpowder. It's as if the young Murakami could kill Zabi or Ellen for their faith at any time. This is the result of the death of one or the other. For Allen, the reason why he killed Zabi in the end was the same belief of belonging and identity as everyone else. In other words, the director pointed out that homophobia killed zabi.
Although some countries have made progress in LGBT rights over the years, in more religiously dominant or conservative countries, the LGBT community still faces the dual dangers of government laws and homophobic persecution. Maybe homophobia is not so serious in big cities in some countries, but in villages like in the movie, homophobia is serious and dangerous. No matter for some Western countries (Christianity) or the Arab world (Islam), religion is the biggest evil source of homophobia in many cases. And the homophobia derived from these religious laws and regulations comes from hypocrisy and ignorance. Whether it is to arbitrarily judge a group of people based on a sentence in the Bible thousands of years ago, or to use violence or even worse means to persecute gay groups, it is in serious conflict with modern civilization and a society ruled by law. Many people are unaware of these persecutions, and just as the director of this film hopes, they tell the world through these films that homophobia is bad in this place, destroying the life of one or more people like a storm, and even the life.
This is the purpose of the director's adaptation of the event. And if we look at this movie in conjunction with this incident, it will be another story.
2. 27 evening 2015
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