If I had to choose one of my most memorable debut films in 2018, I would blurt out this "Girl" without hesitation. Although there are still two months before the year ends, I can still be sure, There won't be another debut novel that surpasses the look and feel of "Girls" for me. This Belgian film, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival as early as May this year, can be described as stunning at that time to describe its post-screening response. Not only did the media from various countries praise the film in unison, but Douyou dubbed the film's director. , the handsome young Lucas Hodt , will become the "pro son" of the next Cannes Film Festival. In the end, the film lived up to its expectations and won two awards for the best performance and the best debut film at the Golden Camera in the "Un Certain Regard" section of the Cannes Film Festival . I was fortunate enough to watch the film at its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival just last month, and absolutely believed the compliments it received at the Cannes Film Festival, not for nothing.
The name of the movie is "Girl", but the protagonist of the film is a man. The protagonist's name is Lara, she is a child who loves ballet. Although her physical characteristics are male, her psychology is always a different one. Uncompromising girls. Because of her love for ballet, she has to keep her body as slender as possible in order to dance well with girls. Therefore, she not only takes estrogen, but also wraps boys' sexual organs with tape every time she practices dance. . In addition to the daily study and life of an adolescent child, the most important thing for Lara is to practice ballet, and regularly go to the doctor to receive estrogen and check when she can have sex reassignment surgery.
As she grows day by day, what Lara has to face is how she resists her body to become more masculine at every moment, because she wants so much to perform ballet moves that will satisfy herself and her teacher; He gave Lara the greatest understanding and care, but in order to dance the ballet well, Lara had to constantly fight with her body and mind. In the end, in order to be able to dance ballet with her daughter, Lara still did the stupid things that young people do when they are paranoid...
It can be said that the protagonist created by this film is the happiest and most "unfortunate" person on the big screen this year. Her luck and misfortune both come from her awareness of her own identity . She is lucky, because she firmly believes that she is a girl in her heart, and the identity of this attribute has an extremely precious and irreplaceable meaning ; this identity is completely derived from her most primitive heart, from the inside to the outside, No need for judgement from others. However, she is "unfortunate", because her body retains the characteristics of a boy after all, so she cannot fully enjoy the unique freedom of girls when dancing.
Her luck and misfortune also come from her obsessive love for ballet. She is lucky, because she has a dream that can make her love so much that she can forget all the pain. The intense pursuit of this dream has risen to an extremely powerful belief . This belief is so strong that everything can give way to it, and it is so strong that she can overcome all obstacles, even the most primitive means to overcome physical obstacles, even if the pain is beyond words. But it is precisely the pain she has to endure, which also shows us her "unfortunate", the man's body requires her to make more efforts and overcome more difficulties than her peers (both men and women) in the ballet team. She not only had to endure the pain of wrapping her toes with more tape and jumping and breaking her toes, but also facing the curiosity and mockery of his male body from the girls in the dormitory. However, her misfortune also happened to stem from her almost paranoid belief .
As his own Virgo, director Lucas Hodt didn't mean the slightest stage fright throughout the film . When explaining the story, he linked together many fragments of the protagonist's life, allowing the audience to follow the camera and feel the protagonist's contradictions and struggles when facing his own body. Although there are many places in the movie that are worth sighing and even emotional breakdown, but However, the director kept his emotions at the most appropriate time and never made people feel promiscuous or sensational. This calmness and restraint are very rare for a new director. In addition, what is even more rare is that the director has made such a LGBT-themed film with a calm core, neither humble nor arrogant ; after all, films with trans-gender (transgender) as the protagonist will be more or less from this crowd. The most recent example is last year's Oscar's best foreign language film " Ordinary Woman "; however, this "Girl" just doesn't do that, it is purer and simpler , the protagonist of the film She has a very clear understanding of her identity from beginning to end. She does not need the affirmation of others, and she never cares about the evaluation of others, which makes this film suddenly full of an otherworldly temperament.
As mentioned earlier, this film won the best performance award in the "Un Certain Regard" category at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and this award was awarded to the film's star , Victor Bost , and definitely deserved it. This little boy is really the best candidate for this role, or it is the precise and thorough performance of this little actor that makes this movie shine with its unique charm .
Victor's undeveloped body is already slender, and his fair and delicate facial lines provide him with unique conditions for interpreting this role. In addition to the advantages of appearance, Victor's performance is also very vivid. In terms of movements and demeanor, he not only shows the shyness and shyness of a "daughter's heart" in adolescence, but also brings difficulties to the "man's body". The strength of the character itself and the nuanced nuance of the wayward rendition.
I was particularly impressed by two things: one is that when the protagonist Lara was greatly damaged due to overwrapping her toes and dancing forcefully, she had to resist all pain in the dance classroom and continued to dance with her demeanor and demeanor. Profusely sweating, she was still hesitatingly wiping sweat silently and exhaling continuously. At this moment, she was full of tenacity and fear and her eyes trembled slightly, which made people feel pity. The second is the end of the movie. After experiencing a lot of pain, Lara walks confidently and gracefully in the underground passages. You can feel a sense of after the wind and rain from the corners of her slightly raised mouth and her slightly raised head . Free and easy and confident , to be honest, this lens can be listed as one of the most beautiful lenses of 2018 .
Finally, I really want to name the dad in this movie, he really is the most empathetic, tender and understanding dad I have ever seen in this world.
No matter what decision the little protagonist Lara makes in the film, the role of father is always supported in the film. He not only sees the doctor with Lara and consults about surgery, but also always appears when Lara needs help. If all the LGBT families in the world were like this dad, the world would be millions of times better.
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