I watched this film on and off several years ago, with no dubbing or subtitles, but the whole film is just a few lines of dialogue, and it doesn't matter if I understand it or not. word doesn't count when it comes to pure desire. The male protagonist is a young cleaner who collects and digs rubbish in the early morning, and tirelessly vents his desire in various forms at other times. Someone's overview of the whole film is that he lives like his dog, and in the end, the wildness can't be suppressed, and it's doomed. For me, the climax and ending of the plot development are not important (basically this movie has no ending at all), the most thought-provoking part is the whole setting and contest. It is one-sided to define this film as "gay movie" alone, heterosexuality homosexuality, to the level of desire, they are all connected. Discussing desires from a gay perspective, I think, is because their unrepressed, unpolished desires are more expressive and revealing. About language and desire. What I find interesting is that in this film, there is no language, a lot of desire (here, of course, desire only refers to the most primitive human/animal sexual desire). The development of human civilization has suppressed such desires and instincts for a long time; language, as an important representative of human civilization, is quite symbolic in this film. We have more desires, self-awareness, self-realization, ideas, material and social status than sexuality; these are more complex than sexuality, more tiring than sex. The story of the male protagonist is slightly tragic, he is unhappy, his desires cannot be expressed, the perfect body he falls in love with, and the object of his sexual fantasies shows extreme disgust for him. Because we cannot live like this in the real world, he is doomed to tragedy. But his life, in my opinion, is almost utopian. There are no troublesome things that can't be relieved, and only the most primitive instincts are left. Isn't this an ideal country? To be honest, I experienced a great relief while watching this movie, admiring what he has as a life. There are still a lot of negative comments in the film review, some people say he is disgusting, some people say he has a snake spirit. We always say that we want to return to the original and return to the original. What should we return to the original? Lifestyle is just a commodity to some extent, you buy it to show who you are, but it doesn't really tell. "Live a life back to basics" seems to be formalized. I'm thinking that if one day we completely forget our instincts and what we really want and need, that's the real tragedy.
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