I think cities and seas sometimes play a theme: oblivion. For example, in the movie "Hong Yan", the child's mother finally left Dam Street, saying that she was going to Shenzhen. At this time, what the city is doing is forgetting. She can start interacting with strangers in Shenzhen. No matter what kind of career she has, it is acceptable. But in a small town, her past mistakes constitute the premise and premise of everything, and she can't even start over. ]. This forgotten function of the city is close to being hidden. For another example, in the movie "The Pianist at Sea", with the reference of the sea, the hidden function of the city begins to be revealed. More precisely, the city is still the art of the land, its labyrinth-like structure makes "I" forget the original route. Or it can be said that memory is also land art, because on land, each other can promise to mark [and the sea is impetuous movement]. Comparatively speaking, the forgetting structure of the city is manifest/hidden, and the sea is outside this structure. For example, in the movie "The Shawshank Redemption", this "forgetfulness" [they fled to the sea] was made clear. In the movie XXY, Alex was conceived on a beach reef, as her mother told her guests. And they moved from Buenos Aires to live by the sea, according to Alex's father, to get away from someone. What kind of person? Someone like Alvaro's father, someone like Fando's father and the boys who raped Alex. For example, in the role of Alvaro's father, it can be done in one stroke, but the director has spent a lot of effort. In Alvaro's father, the city is a mechanical and scientific knowledge structure. For example, he doesn't like his son because he thinks his son is gay. bored. So when it came to persuading his son to drink, Alex retorted his wife's words, saying that this is not a trivial matter. Letting a boy drink does not mean that the boy has courage. Alex's father's boredom comes from his rejection of the representation of masculinity. Because this is the one who is torturing his own child and torturing Alex. In the movie, the forgetting of the sea is clarified, this forgetting is not hiding and evading, but the beginning outside the explicit/implicit structure. [For example, Alvaro's father asked his son to drink, and he knew that his son liked girls, which he thought was good news, because it was an explicit/hidden message. 】
2, I am a girl, but also a boy.
This phrase is expressed many times in the movie. For example, Alex's father went to visit the man in the newspaper who had successfully turned from a girl into a boy at night, and he said to the man, I have a daughter...a son.... [The ellipsis expresses a hesitant tone] In this sentence pattern, the symbol is the tone, which is reflected in the translated lines, which is the ellipsis, and the ellipsis cannot be omitted. Because the coexistence of the two judgment sentences before and after is enough to form a kind of floating under mutual exclusion, just like the state of being in the sea. Then, with the help of this sentence pattern, Alex's father is actually expressing another meaning, expressing the struggle in his heart. And in the pine forest, Rialix said to Alvaro, I am a girl and a boy. Then Alvaro said, this is impossible, how is this possible? Alex said, you tell me what is possible and what is not possible. Alex's struggle is that she is asked to choose one of them to start "herself". But Alex told his father: What if there was no choice? Including Alex's father also experienced a realization of his own children and a realization of himself in the film. For example, when he first showed Alex a book, one of the passages said: "All vertebrates, including humans, are evolutionarily and embryologically predominant by females." Until he was in the car with Al Varro's father, the doctor, said that Alex had been perfect since he first saw her. So he refused the filming request, rejected the medical school, the medical ethics committee, the so-called public, and moved to the beach. So, is there a choice, it doesn't need to choose between A, B or C, D outside itself, it just asks to keep itself. As Alex said to his mother, I was sick of taking medicine, sick of surgery, and I wanted to stay the same. In the sentence pattern of "I am a girl and a boy", the director's criticism of the irrationality of a certain medical system is implied. Like Alex's mother said, the first thing the hospital asks is, is it a girl or a boy?
3. Son and father.
The film also seems to fit the theme of identity from another angle, making the whole film very fulfilling. Such as the analysis and writing of Alvaro's homosexuality. Within the masculine and feminine framework, gender subjects are questioned here. Alvaro asked his father if he felt talented? Father said without hesitation, no. Then Alvaro wept a little and said, then....will there be such a day..? Will it? Without hesitation, my father said two more in a row: No. no. [It's the same negative word in Spanish, so the father's negation is more monotonous. ] The director seems to imply the social generation of gender, rather than judging a person's gender composition too solely from physical and physiological representations and gender temperament. It is here that the concept of gender in general becomes the complicity of representation. The gender that was previously bound returns to the channel of generation. This is not wanton chaos, but more like an inward growth that breeds the subject. This subject does not come early, nor does it even come eventually. Because, we do not need any form of "arrival" to protect our "self". Alex asked his father if he called the police about the boys who violated him. His father said that if he called the police, everyone would know, and it was up to Alex to decide. Then Alex said, let them all know go for it.
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