People’s sex education has entered 5g, and we are still struggling with inferior BB machines.
Youth is a topic that will never go out of style. Someone is experiencing it, and some people always miss it.
For love, domestic youth films are always full of hazy ambiguity, and the little love between boys and girls is all interspersed with heavy schoolwork and the blind spot of parents' monitoring. Such youth is as beautiful as a picture, but it lacks some down-to-earth reality.
Youth films on the other side of the ocean are the opposite. The opening of "Sex Education" is a pair of young men and women who are unobtrusive and dry. The whole drama is full of explicit lines from beginning to end. The hero and heroine even opened a sex consultation and treatment center on campus. . This kind of youth is vigorous, flavorful, and true.
Of course, the "beauty" of the former does not include car accidents and abortions, and the "truth" of the latter does not refer to behavior, but an attitude towards sex and love.
The story of "Sex Education" is based on an almost perfect equal rights world, where everyone can interact freely, and almost everyone's sexual orientation can be respected.
The protagonist’s friend Eric is an out-and-out gay. He likes to highlight his personality through bright and beautiful outfits, which makes him seem out of place in his traditional family. When my father bumped into Eric's face with heavy makeup, high heels and tights, the family battle did not happen as scheduled. My father just said in a worried tone: " If you want to live like this, you must be strong. "
Disagreement but full respect must be a parent-child relationship that many people envy. It is also enviable that you can discuss sexual topics generously with your family.
The mother of the protagonist Otis is a sex therapist. Most of the time, talking about sex between mother and child is as natural as talking about the weather. Otis can talk happily with every partner of his mother, and the mother can also take the initiative to give condoms when she learns that Otis is going to a party. Although Otis in the second grade of high school does not want to discuss with his mother the difficulties he encountered in the process of sexual development, he can still tell his mother bluntly "I can't masturbate. But I don't wanna talk about it. I'm dealing with it on my own." "I can't masturbate (please check the meaning of the word), but I don't want to talk about it, I will solve it myself."
When a problem is no longer hidden, it may be solved. Similarly, when the topic of sex is no longer obscure, it has a chance to get on the right track. But in our country, sex education is almost never mentioned, and even the most basic knowledge of physiological hygiene is blank, let alone LGBT equality.
Picture books for elementary school students’ popular science knowledge will be reported by parents. Professor Li Yinhe, who has carefully discussed the topic of equal rights, will be banned, and the exclusive words about genders in the "Xinhua Dictionary" will be deleted. As a result, they gave birth to doctoral couples who thought they could give birth to a baby by lying together, gave birth to Fang Siqi in the first love paradise, gave birth to countless girls who had abortions due to lack of sexual knowledge...
People’s sex education has entered 5g, and we are still struggling with inferior BB machines.
Speaking of this, I suddenly remembered that a long time ago, I had written a half-story and half-view essay about facing up to adolescent sex education, which was submitted to an unknown public account. The editor rejected the manuscript on the grounds of "vulgar content." Sex equals dirty, sex education equals vulgarity. The awareness of sexual safety that should have been established during adolescence has been blocked by everyone. It has been in 9012, which is really sad.
Going back to "Sex Education", Otis is not the only mother and son in the play that are so open to sex topics. Students on the high school campus are engaged in discussions about it all the time, with enjoyment, confusion, and distress. So by chance, the "School Sex Counseling and Treatment Center" jointly founded by the heroine Maeve and Otis opened.
Maeve uses her business acumen to solicit customers, while Otis imitates her mother's appearance to provide clients with treatment options. Coupled with the sex education classes offered by the school, this group of senior high school students have increasingly perfected their sexual concepts, and they even further understand what love is through sex.
Lily, who wanted to lose her virgin body, gradually realized that she was just afraid of being left behind by her peers during the communication with Otis, and she didn't really want sex. Finding the other half who makes your heart beat, and enjoying sex in the nurturing of love is more important than rushing to get rid of the virgin body.
Very loving couples are arguing about "whether the lights should be turned off when having sex". Through Otis' mediation, they begin to learn to listen to the feelings of the other half, learn to trust each other, and learn to affirm themselves.
Liam, a boy who has been immersed in his secret love, tried to commit suicide after being rejected publicly. Otis presents the most exciting line of the whole show at this moment——
Sometimes people we like don’t like us. This is really uncomfortable, but we can’t do much. I know how it feels when the person you love doesn't love you. You can't stop missing her. It hurts very much, but you can't force others to like you. Love is not a big confession, or the moon or the stars, love is just shit luck. Sometimes you meet people who feel the same as you, and sometimes you are not lucky enough. But one day you will meet someone who appreciates the real you. There are 7 billion people on this earth, and I know there is a person who will climb the moon for you.
This is what adolescence should have, thinking about love.
We are all mortal bodies, unable to completely get rid of the seven emotions and six desires to practice platonic love, so to talk about love without sex is the real hooliganism. "Sex Education" takes sex as the starting point and corrects the wrong views on love among boys and girls. It is both violent and innocent, and it is really advanced.
In addition to "knowing love", another issue in adolescence is " knowing yourself ".
"Oneself" is a complicated thing, after all, even Ji Wuming died on the question of "who killed whom". But "Sex Education" did not complicate the problem like Lu Xiucai, but told the audience that the first step in knowing yourself is to accept yourself .
The principal's son Adam was troubled by his body for a long time, and his classmates were joking about him, but he just wanted to be an ordinary child. Otis said: " Family and body can't be changed, but your attitude can be changed. It doesn't matter what anyone in the school thinks, you are you, don't let anyone influence you. "
" You are who you are ", very chicken soup, but it works. Just like we don’t have to envy the talents of others, we don’t have to lament our mediocrity, everyone has their own personal charm. The most important thing is to understand your own personality, and then develop it. If Ji Wuming could understand this, not only would he not die Huangquan, but he might also become another running hall of Tongfu Inn.
After accepting yourself, try to listen to yourself. Although Adam's girlfriend Aimee has worked hard in bed, she always satisfies her partner's feelings until after listening to Otis's advice, Aimee knows what she really wants in a relationship between the sexes through "masturbation". So later, this gradually clear self-consciousness affected other aspects of Aimee's life. She resolutely left the former hypocritical social circle and walked side by side with her real girlfriend on campus.
Regardless of masturbation or social relations, "Sex Education" is all about telling the audience that people must first know themselves correctly before they can correctly perceive the world.
At this point, this youth film in a sexy coat finally reveals its nature. Each character has his own youth troubles, which are presented in an explicit way, and then solved by the male protagonist Otis. And Otis has not been deified by the screenwriter. On the contrary, he not only has no sexual experience, but even has a physical resistance to sex, all because of the scenes of Otis witnessing his father's cheating when he was young.
Probably nothing is more difficult to eliminate than the shadow of childhood. The original comic-style bridge suddenly became dignified, and the relationship between mother and child has undergone subtle changes as a result.
Parents all over the world want to try to participate in the whole process of their children’s growth. The difference is that the mother in "Sex Education" is full of guilt when spying on the physical and mental changes of her son, and will sincerely apologize after being discovered by Otis, and our parents, Always standing on a high position of power, there is nothing wrong with infringing on the privacy of others.
Adolescent teenagers often have super self-esteem. Otis rejected all kinds of "care" from his mother and chose to face the problem alone. Although his ultimate growth direction is still unknown, Otis obviously has his own gains in helping others solve sexual problems.
We always boast about how good foreign youth films are, in which we can see love, freedom, openness, and dreams, but our youth films always carry an eternally suppressed throbbing. Struggling in a bad parent-child relationship.
In fact, the moons in foreign countries are not relatively round, but our moons have been hidden for too long, long enough to make people forget that the most beautiful light in the dark is that bright and clean.
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