What a nice name, River phoenix, Phoenix River. I would like to be a phoenix, gorgeous and beautiful. But everything is unpredictable, rio is not reborn from nirvana. In the lamentation and grief of countless people, his life ended early.
Maybe I'm going too far. Some people may say that I look at my face, but RIVER in the film is amazingly good. This should be his most successful and moving work, right?
A utopian story, Mike is like a small child, and illusory images fill his mind. A product of incest, he has his own dream home. A loving mother, a distant wilderness, a small wooden house. Scott and Mike are completely different grades, although he also hangs out with Mike and others for family reasons, working as a male prostitute to make money. But he's always been a middle-class kid and will still eventually return to the upper class. Mike is different, as expressed in the most thought-provoking dialogue -
Mike: "If I had a normal family, and a good upbringing, then I would have been a well adjusted person." family and good upbringing, then I'd be a normal person.)
Scott: "Depends on what you'd call normal."
Mike: "Yeah, it does." Well, you know, normal, like a mom and a dad and a dog and shit like that... normal."
Scott: "So you didn't have a dog? Or you didn't have a dad..."
Mike: "I didn't have a dad..." dog and I didn't have a dad. Well, not a normal dad... ”
Mike: “Thats all right. I am not sorry for myself . I feel like, you know, a well adjusted..." (It's okay. I'm not feeling sorry for myself. I mean I feel like I have a normal personality...)
Scott: "What's a normal dad?" A normal father?)
Mike: "I don't know." (I don't know.)
Maybe all the girls are moved by the following lines, facing Scott, who has a crush on him, he kept his head down and never dared to Look him in the eye.
He murmured: I love you.
He said: for me, I could love someone even if I, you know, wasn't paid for it... I love you, and... You don't pay me. (For me, I can love someone, not for money. I love you, and you don't have to pay me.)
Scott was speechless. Mike, who saw him at this time, still bowed his head like a child. Perhaps, he had another dream in his heart. He loves this friend, this man. So he gets upset when he sees Scott being intimate with Italian women, he tosses at night and can't sleep, and he beats the bed hard when he leaves. Yes, he loved, but was hurt again.
Mike in the movie is doing his own dream. He was just silent about many things. He lied to himself, but did not forget to pursue. He looks for his mother, and it seems that he can get rid of everything when he finds her snuggling in her arms, and can really return to that dream: it's alright... everything is not your fault... The
film has always wanted to express it with clarity. But it still hurts to see the end. Heartache Scott's complete severance, regardless of Mike, let him lie on the side of the street. Heartbroken what Scott said. Even heartbroken over the death of BOB, the group of people from the lower classes shouted loudly. They sang and called his name and even kissed by his coffin. Not far away, the man they regarded as the savior was carrying out his father's funeral. When Scott's eyes looked there, I was asking myself, and I was also asking him: Do you still have this memory from the past? Do you still have Mike in your head?
This film is not only a homosexual film, its love scenes are all handled by director Jing Zhen, like an oil painting. What is more discussed is Mike's utopia, the bottom life of male prostitutes, social differences, and the opposition between reality and ideals.
The scene at the end of the film brought tears to my eyes. Looking at the sleeping body on the highway of Nuoda, watching him being robbed, and then seeing a man help him into the car. Fantasy for no reason, could that be Scott? I wish it was him, and then I took Mike and made a pair of mad flowers.
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