Brandon, answer the phone, answer the phone...

Eldridge 2021-11-24 08:01:19

I thought it was a story about not lifting. I forgot where I looked at the plot summary, I just think about Fassbender's face, I can't help but sigh. After watching this film, I spent a lot of time to determine my thoughts-this is not a story about not lifting. It's salvation.

At the beginning of the film, the actor always walks naked in his apartment with his head strutting and Ding Dong. There are always messages on the phone, and the girls always say, it’s me, Brandon, who answers the phone, answers the phone...

and then Brandon continues to find a lady, watch porn, play with himself, work, take the subway, and pay for videos. One day the girl on the phone fell from the sky. She always likes to repeat her own words, such as "I love you", "Answer the phone", "Don't say that", "I'm sorry", for fear that the obedient person might not hear it.

Brandon looks so good. In front of him, the boss looked like a shit boy who just wobbled his tail when he saw him. So to me, Brandon, who is constantly on prostitutes, seems so clean, or, respectful. He rarely took the initiative and eagerly to find the women around him to vent his desires, and he left those to his humble self in consciousness.

He has a good shell. The appearance is sexy and polite. You have to clean the toilet ring when you fly in a public toilet. You can eat Chinese food and watch pornography by yourself, have your favorite music, drink orange juice and pour it into the cup, and change the sheets when other people have slept in the bed... ...I like this character uncontrollably, like the circles he drew for himself, his clean body and life.

Sissy's arrival indeed broke through his defense abruptly. The younger sister didn't know what the elder brother was hiding, or what was angry. Later, she discovered the side he wanted to hide, put on the coat and went out.

But in the whole film, the only person who understands the theme of "saving" is precisely Sissy who committed suicide countless times. She knows that when you can’t approach a person, talk to him; when a person will never come to you, approach him; when a person thinks he is unbearable, call him and tell him, “We Not a bad guy"...

In fact, Marianne also has a chance to save Brandon. She can be untidy and insist on hugging Brandon who is annoyed by her performance, or she can accept it when he offers to send her downstairs, and then hold his hand. Because he fundamentally felt that he was a person who would not accept it completely, he was afraid of intimacy and lingered among strangers.

Whether it is him who is doing his best on the bed of three people, or he who is kneeling in the rain and crying, he is waiting for someone to save him, accept every aspect of him, and let him slowly get used to all this from coldness to enthusiasm. Everything between people, everything warm.

heal.

I hope that when Sissy wakes up, I can continue to call him every day, saying, Brandon, answer the phone, answer the phone... the

relationship between people is inherently weak, and encounters are not enough. You must muster the courage to give Everything makes it grow. Of course, if you think it's worth it.


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Shame quotes

  • Sissy Sullivan: We're not bad people. We just come from a bad place.

  • Sissy Sullivan: I'm trying, I'm trying to help you.

    Brandon Sullivan: How are you helping me, huh? How are you helping me? How are you helping me? Huh? Look at me. You come in here and you're a weight on me. Do you understand me? You're a burden. You're just dragging me down. How are you helping me? You can't even clean up after yourself. Stop playing the victim.

    Sissy Sullivan: I'm not playing the victim. If I left, I would never hear from you again. Don't you think that's sad? Don't you think that's sad? You're my brother.