Then the visual theme of the film I guess is "embarrassment". The embarrassment of each protagonist's situation in the play stems from the embarrassment of social maintenance. In fact, this embarrassment has always existed in everyone's heart, but it is suppressed by social morality. Once the social maintenance collapses, this suppression will also erupt. However, people who are in this complex social transformation can only be alone, waiting for the storm to pass. Pain is the most suitable emotion. On the other hand, the pure young white boy who was cruising in the storm and was indifferent to all this could only be taken away by the god of death.
Ang Lee's narrative always gives people a feeling of "depression", which is the same from beginning to end. It is this pain of repression that makes those of us who are also repressed in a huge society with low morality fascinated.
In this extremely oppressive society, there are always some unexpected surprises that will show up. You didn't notice it at first, but when the green juice is sprayed on you, you are just as embarrassed. This is Li An's brilliant At this point, not only is embarrassment exposed, but every viewer must also be in this repression to release himself. What could be more interesting than this?
And maybe some viewers will think that Ang Lee is a bit cruel, but don't you realize that he always comforts you at the end, I personally don't like this kind of comfort, I don't think it's true. Because if you consider comfort from the real society, it is a symbol of death. But for God's sake, people accepted the comfort.
Anyway, I liked this movie
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