Gabriel Noone, played by Robin Williams, is the host of a midnight radio show about same-sex feelings who lives with a young man with AIDS and often uses the subject to encourage his listeners. I have always liked Robin Williams as an actor, and this time his performance did not disappoint. He gave the character a fatherly tenderness, and his deep and firm voice always gave people a sense of comfort.
The actor who plays Jess has an impressive pair of dark eyes, a tall stature, a sculptural face, and a firm, slightly sad look in his eyes, which makes one feel that his shoulders must be affectionate and powerful, paired with a pair of deep and melodious. Although his voice and appearance are not handsome, they have a bit of demagogic power.
This is a film involving child abuse and same-sex emotions. It is a sensitive topic, but both aspects are very subtle. The film focuses on the process of Gabriel's search for Pete, a boy who has only seen photos, but I can't put it together It is regarded as a normal thriller, perhaps because the eyes of Gabriel and Jess are too gentle, and the boys are too beautiful.
The story opens with a relationship crisis between the two, with Jess moving out of the home he shares with Gabriel - despite saying he'll be back. The emotional film about the two does not involve too much, and even Jess has only a handful of appearances, but it can be understood from the occasional staring and hugging of the two. This relationship is not as sunny as in popular novels, and the already doomed ending must have cast a shadow on the hearts of both parties - in Jess, it was a fleeting entanglement between the eyebrows, and in Gabriel, it was irreversible. Thick and melancholy, lined with calm and gentle eyes, it is like a hot, bitter coffee that penetrates into the heart.
Regarding the boy named Pete, while the film's open-ended ending doesn't give the audience a clear answer, many of the details suggest some sort of answer - Jess says the two on the phone have similar voices, and Donna shows Gabriel her new weave. The look in the red sweater of Donna, the frenzy of Donna's gaffe, and Pete's fading voice when Gabriel asks about Donna's past on the final phone call -- there's just something we don't need to know too well, because whenever we look at the photo The beautiful and simple smiling face of the boy in the middle is always softened so easily that we don't want to pierce that layer of paper. As for Gabriel's obsession with Pete, I don't think it's just a simple sense of responsibility. Maybe for the big boy Jess, he always has some healthy guilt and a sense of powerlessness and frustration that he can't change his destiny, which makes him unable to Leave that kid alone.
The plot of the film doesn't have much to be commended, but the whole thing reveals a slightly bitter warmth. Deliberate avoidance weakens the tragic atmosphere of the film, and also makes the feelings show an unpretentious long appearance. Gabriel and Jess, although most of the world's feelings are still moving, the relationship between the two is also a lover, a friend, a father and son, mixed with a lot of things, there is a kind of desire to talk, but in the world Some things are like this, why do we need to distinguish too clearly.
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Written on June 10, 2007 when there is still literature and art in the heart and pretending to be X
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