Brazilian director Daniel Ribeiro's queer pure love is the most popular gay film this year. It is a remake of the 2010 short film "Love, Holding Hands". This film finally lived up to the expectations of the Berlin Film at the beginning of the year. The festival won the International Film Critics Fabisi Award and the Teddy Bear Award. Expanding the short film into a film, the crew recruited the original crew, and the general framework and general plot of the story were preserved. The difference was that the parents of the hero Leo, his adolescent rebellion and the tricks of the boys in the same class were added. , the focus of the whole story also shifts from the boy's sexual awakening to his upbringing.
Whether it's "You, Me and Him", which director Ribeiro won the best short film for Teddy Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2007, or the two subsequent films "Love, Holding Hands" and "Love, Simple", what he is best at is Refine the feeling of romance and heartbeat from the daily small details of life. Such a story does not need strong dramatic conflict, and does not need a big horse-grabbing plot. After a slow simmering process, even a simple hand-holding of the two boys is enough to make people excited and excited. Another difference for the director is that he doesn't treat the topic of sexual orientation and homosexuality as a "special" subject at all, which may also be related to the director's identity as gay. In his eyes, this is just a normal love story, a blind boy holding hands with another boy, simple and normal. Leo's parents were left blank about their son's sexuality, as if it didn't matter at all. Even the male classmate who had been provoking Leo on campus was full of shame and frustration after seeing him and Gabriel holding hands.
Nowadays, in gay-themed films, it seems that few films are no longer entangled with the commonplace issues of coming out and sexual orientation. Instead, more and more like "Weekend Time", "Boys" and "Looking" are all directly standing. From a gay standpoint, the characters are so firm about their sexuality that they have broken the popular mindset about gay movies. These kinds of films are often better than life-like, allowing you to see the most real and ordinary life of the characters, what family objections, self-identification, homophobia and bullying, and further to racial prejudice, human rights struggle or AIDS, these are often It's nothing special. Nowadays, the popular trend of gay movies is to show the current life status and psychological state of gay characters as ordinary people, and the small details of the small horses have become more touching and let people find psychological resonance.
"Love, Simple" is a pure love youth film about first love. Two boys are inadvertently moved in some trivial daily life, and then slowly fall in love with each other. The little ambiguity between the two beautiful teenagers in the film is a pure and beautiful mess. It is a bit like Japanese movies in look and feel, such as "Tamako Who Does Not Seek Progress", "Hengdao Shizhisuke", etc. It is simple, ordinary, real and moving. You can see all kinds of familiar sense of the times from these movies, as well as acquaintances of beautiful youth. In contrast, domestic youth films often appear deliberately contrived, such as "You at the Same Table" and "To Youth", which are all like the possession of Drama Queen, with various dramatic bridges and major events of the times collaged together, Coupled with the so-called cruel youth, it seems that every time I have to repeat what it means to die without dying. Why does youth have to be so chasing horses?
Originally published in Southern Metropolis Daily
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