"I hope it wasn't him who died."
"Who do you hope then? Kenneth?"
"Maybe it's the same for everyone who died."
David's death actually has no real meaning. It is the same for everyone. He has always been a poor MacGuffin.
At first, I only felt that the sense of drama was very strong, because the scenes were simple and there were no transitions at all, and the wonderful things were laid out in the relationships and dialogues of the characters. Only after seeing the back did I realize that it seemed to be a mirror in the end? After checking it, it turns out that this is the first (pseudo) one-shot work, which is amazing.
Before Rupert appeared, he was outlined in the four-person conversation: "Only publish books that you like, most of them are philosophy. Published books make readers not only read but also think." Afterwards, the collision of values laid the foundation, so if the ending is forced to be justice, I personally don’t agree with it. The theories he said about agreeing with murder were not real agreement, but more sarcasm and banter. Did the director of "Human Removal" really agree with what he made? It can also be seen from the confession at the end that he is just using jokes to passively resist the boring and disorderly life thrown at him.
Probably the most nerve-wracking part of the whole film is the part where Mrs. Wilson packs up the box to put the book in. The camera is still, and the background sound is everyone's calm conversation, discussing where David is, who is late for no reason. And David is in the picture at the moment, but he has already turned into a corpse curled up in a box. At this moment, the box is about to be opened in front of everyone.
The first-person footage of Rupert’s reasoning is very interesting, the feeling of patrolling, one by one evidence is taken into the eye, until he sees the pistol that Brandon keeps in his pocket. Even if it is not the person in the film, it still feels like my heart is being grabbed.
The introduction says that both of them are gay, but the same-sex elements in the play are not very explicit, especially Philip, I even doubt it... He seems to be just a weak man who was kidnapped by Brandon in his mind. But there are a few things that are slightly ambiguous:
"It's a shame we couldn't do it with the curtains open when the sun was just right, but we can't have it all right? We've already done it during the day, after all," said Brandon, helping Philip off as he spoke. Gloves, the action is even intimate. Although I echoed it at the end, I still wondered if these words were a hint at the situation where it was impossible to come out openly at the time?
While explaining the purpose of the dinner, Brandon told Kenneth that after the dinner he was going to send Philip to his mother's house for a retreat. I don't know if such a move was considered an intimacy beyond ordinary friendship at the time, but Kenneth seemed a little confused, let's just pretend it was.
Brandon is an admirer of Rupert, he likes Rupert very much. Is it simple like? He believed in Rupert's views so much, and when he saw Rupert stuttering and trembling with excitement, it seemed that it was not. By the end, I even thought the whole murder was really just Brandon's way of trying to please Rupert, who took Rupert's jokes for real, thinking that a perfect kill could be exchanged for Rupert of joy. Philip was right, he insisted on inviting Rupert to come, and he made dangerous actions again and again, and was really eager for Rupert to find this close corpse. In his expectation, Rupert, who saw the body, should be pleasantly surprised.
Too bad Rupert didn't.
I think Brandon actually had a faint awareness of Rupert's true attitude during the argument, which is why he interrupted Rupert so eagerly, he didn't want to hear the answer he didn't want to hear , after he has done such a thing.
Rupert must have disappointed Brandon very much. Not only was he different from what he imagined, but the timid "integrity" and detachment he showed after seeing the corpse had nothing to do with the so-called inferior people in Brandon's mind. What is the difference? In my opinion, the collapse of beliefs and the collapse of idols is far more painful for people like Brandon than prison sentences.
James Stewart is so charming!
Wow. Brandon used the rope that strangled David to tie the book to David's father. It's really... so evil.
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