It's not regret, it's love

Anderson 2022-03-18 08:01:01

Seriously, as the finale of Season 5 ticked by, my heart finally fell. Brian and Justin have lived up to the love in my heart after all, how can I talk about the regrets of the previous resentment? In fact, this sentiment comes from a very disappointing spoiler. Before the official start of the fifth season, I saw countless drama critics entangled in Justin's departure at the end, and even cursed the screenwriter for giving the two such an incomplete ending. , So I have a lot of love in my heart, and I have been a little disappointed in the whole process of watching the fifth season. How can these two people who love to the core be incomplete in the end? If until the end of the story, Justin still pursues the pain and unresponsive love for Brian as in the third season, and Brian still hides his love for Justin deeply in his heart and almost masochistically loses to his own demon, I How can I bear it? Fortunately, the results I feared did not materialize. Although in the fifth season, the screenwriters have begun to show signs that Jiang Lang's talents are exhausted, and began to use the tricks of the gods, but Brian and Justin finally made a gratifying choice. Emotional matters are ironed out one by one, what else are they worth?

A lot of people are waiting for season six, even though they clearly know it's a myth. In my heart, here, the story has already had a most satisfactory ending, and it can only be defeated in vain. I was thinking of that big ship from 10 years ago. 10 years ago, when I was a Loli, a sunken ship brought out the tears of countless idiots and women. Tears in the movie theater washed people's understanding of love. At that time, there was still such a discussion about what the ending was. the happiest of people. The answer is actually obvious and cruel. If he wants a perfect love, Jake can only die.

BJ was luckier than Jake and Rose after all. If JR's love can only be remembered in Rose's memory, then BJ's love will always exist in BJ's separation, because the choice they make about their future life itself is a gesture of love . Of course BJ can get married, can make people's jaw drop and live together, the conditions are ripe, Brian sacrificed his pursuit of exciting life and worship him for Justin, and Justin was willing to sacrifice for Brian from the beginning For the sake of love, he is completely willing to put up his middle finger and say Fuckyou to New York. So far the story is told, everything is in order. But in this way, love has become a mere appearance in their pursuit of happiness itself. Justin has always been very clear about this. He said, "This is sacrifice, not love", at least this is not the love between BJ.

The love of young children is about sacrificing for each other, but this kind of sacrifice not only fulfills each other's happiness, but also plunges each other into betrayal and humiliation of their "love" itself. This kind of love exists among mortals. They don't need to be loyal to an abstract so-called "love" metaphysically, all they want is a sense of happiness in love between the two lovers. And the real love is like BJ, they disdain the "mediocre" happiness, they don't need the honey of love to add luster to their life, they are not afraid of loneliness, all they pursue is the absolute possession of each other in each other's hearts . They can be separated by thousands of miles and only share their thoughts, they can give up the wedding and no longer have vows, they can ignore the children, gardens, swings, and kitchens that Michael and Ben regard as the essentials of life, they can live their own lives according to their wishes, they don't need to Make any sacrifice for each other, they can continue to ML with different men, they can be unfaithful to life, not true to happiness, not even true to their most direct desires of the senses, but they are forever and absolutely true to the preciousness between them. of pure, love. All they give up is compromise in their lives, but in fact, they have a deeper level of assimilation. This assimilation is not the approach of B or J to the other, but a new way of love that BJ has created together, approaching Brian's estranged freedom and Justin's sincere loyalty. This kind of love is the most precious, independent and deep, not kitsch, unique in the world, and priceless.

Justin said, I'll be back. Brian said, you don't know, I don't know, will we meet next weekend, next month, or in the future, but what? It's just time. Then they "embraced" - a word Brian would never say. This is the end, if Jake hadn't died, would he and Rose be happy? So, I don't know what to complain about this ending.

Obviously, it's not regret, it's love.

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Queer as Folk quotes

  • Debbie: Well, if it isn't the man behind the asshole.

    Michael: Brian's always behind the asshole.

  • Daphne: I'm not a lesbian, but I'm a big fan.