Using Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor, who has always been GAY in the movie, played a pair of GAYs, I knew that this film is by no means a back-to-back kind of kind. Sure enough, the film does not Unexpectedly played a structural trick. When we finally understand that in the first non-empty shot of the whole film, Steve is lying in the hospital bed, switching to the cliché in the movie that is accompanied by a symbol of death-the flattening of the electrocardiogram wave line is a phenomenon that we have repeatedly misunderstood, but "Show" mastered by Steve. This reversal of meaning at the end, the unexpected final ending, I believe every GAY will love, because it finally did not fall into some kind of "GAY is destined to be a tragedy"; the mainstream' set, and Completed a rather QUEER meaningful expression.
The title of the film, "I Love Philip Morris", is straightforward and frank, like a slogan and declaration of love, which comes from the protagonist Steve. In fact, this article expounds two intertwined and complementary narrative contexts and meaning textures around the big theme of love, namely 1. A GAY's love - GAY's process of growing and acquiring love, 2. What is love- That is love itself.
1 I am gay
The first lie and revelation of the lie is the first 10 minutes. The movie scene creates what appears to be a serene, traditional life in a suburban middle-class neighborhood. Steve is a policeman, has a virtuous, innocent wife, and he plays the piano in church—a black Baptist-style lighthearted, merry worldly singing. hymn. Saturated, well-lit tones during the day, night, after a funny kiss goodbye to the lovely little daughter, and the wife praying gratefully and lovingly before going to bed, and even having sex in their pajamas. In the flashback we learn that Steve is an adopted baby. At the same time, we can learn from the monologue and the action language of his adoptive parents and brother that his childhood was not happy, so that he is now a police officer to find his biological mother. After his failure to recognize his biological mother, he was unable to obtain inner relief by retracing the traumatic situation, and this mainstream traditional expression of happiness and morality was immediately exposed. Steve quits his job and moves, and they hold a neighborhood housewarming party where they kiss his wife wildly. Yet in the next switch, an elevation in the dark, Steve is having fun, even ecstatically, having sex with a guy. In the off-screen monologues and flashbacks about childhood, we know that Steve already knew he was GAY, and the composition of this shot in a sense gives a kind of portrait of Steve in the Freudian sense— —A middle-aged married man who lost his parents’ childhood shadow and became GAY.
So the first plot paragraph gives the characters, background and motivation of the protagonist, as well as the lurking crisis afterward. This GAY, who is hiding from his family, "unsurprisingly" received the punishment of some inevitable social values in this article - he crashed a car. At the same time, he hysterically called out that I was GAY at the moment of life and death, and finally buried this GAY life that was in line with the mainstream but hidden from the light. He came out of the closet.
In this narrative of personal realization of the ultimate liberation, the crash is clearly a setback and an opportunity, followed by the first step into a new life—in an elevation-shifting shot, a beach-casual, spring-faced, handsome guy Tiff. "Life is beautiful, I went to Flory to play, with the puppy, and my BF. Like all fantasies about GAY's vain and glitzy life, we saw them indulge in fun, fashion, spa, good food and expensive The gift - the gold watch - is still two pieces. But right away we learn the secret behind all this glamorous thing, Steve is a fraudster. After it is revealed that Steve is taking drugs in the car and trying to death, he confronts his ex-wife , the police and the male lover, he tried to escape from the hospital. The film designed a meaningful plot here, the police, the ex-wife, the lover followed and chased, these characters in his life became his burden, and the old days were gentle The lover’s coercive style of you jumping and we will break up, and all the previous pink dreams are referred to as money piled up bubbles. (Because the film’s position is obviously on GAY’s side, in the back, we know that this BF is because of suffering from disease, and thus disappear in this article)
By the way, because it is Jim Carrey, every bad luck brings Carrey-style cheap spoof humor. For example, several times to die, miss the elevator, skip the garbage Heaps. These ubiquitous action designs give the film a distinctly comical character.
So, the second plot segment is also completed, and Steve's money-supported glamorous life after seeing the light ends in failure. He goes to prison. Philip also represents a kind of imagination about GAY. In a chaotic fight, we saw a quiet Philip Morris from Steve's subjective perspective. He was blond, blue-eyed, white and weak, shy and timid, passively dodging and even a little stuttering. Once the two met, a double shot, the two sat opposite each other in a closed library space and began to talk, and a Korean drama-style pure love scene appeared. Notes and chocolate, waiting and suspicion, the two male prisoners seemed to be one对情窦初开的青涩小儿女。在飞利浦发现斯蒂夫竟然为了一句话，而付钱叫人揍那个扰人的鬼嚎者，这种极端的偏执狂式的爱却叫他欣喜，这是别人It was the most manly act I've ever done for me, and since then we can see that this love has entered the road of madness.
The lovers dance and watch movies. In such a prison environment, Steve always has the ability to create surprises like a magician, and with the music like a golden age Hollywood love movie episode, (again, the ambient music) really enters the strange love of the two. world.
I believe that from now on, we as viewers will not look like the female customers behind the supermarket counter are disgusted and eccentric when they hear "My boyfriend is out of prison next week", but accept a pair of beautiful lover facts. The film’s sense of comedy brought about by switching the scene space from time to time is staggering and may also extend a sad and tragic experience. While we are laughing at this self-deceiving liar expert, we are also more or less out of love. This invincible and transcendent movie world and the curse of mundane life have been forgiven to sympathize with this love-crazy Steve. Of course, he finally managed to bail Morris out, and even won a lawsuit with shit luck, thus maintaining the lie as a lawyer.
The big house, the vacation, the yacht, the kiss under the sunset, the MV is almost ready, and he always brings surprises in every way when we are worried about his revealing. Steve is a talent, and he's obviously very self-aware of this: I'm born a legend." This is where the film focuses on, and his wild jokes can be widely circulated. He even feels a high In the extreme loneliness, he finally discovered the financial loophole that allowed the money to flow in.
In fact, in this article, the role of Philip is almost feminine and can be interpreted in terms of female images in feminist discourse, and it is Philip It supports this love fairy tale with its pure beauty. 'He' is completely a male-centrism perspective, a pure angel who bears the male desire and is a sexual object. He is melancholy and sensitive, and he has been deceived by men, and even cohabited with the two of them. In this sense, the plot after Philip's appearance can be replaced by a pair of heterosexual men and women. The role of Philip should not be used as a foil to Steve's complex and contradictory characters. Rather, his image makes the text, while trying to escape the narrative of a gay tragedy, fall back into a gay comedy modeled on a straight fairy tale.
2 My Love
Soon, the fraudulent company finances were exposed again, and Steve and Morris were imprisoned again. Although Morris said that he would never forgive him because he could not bear to live in a lie, but in this debate between love and lies, there is no need for afterward. He was alone in jail with melancholic vomiting, scrawny, and even AIDS - what we can see as the mentally-induced physical destruction of love dies. (Of course, he can't have AIDS, especially since Morris doesn't have AIDS, and this article is also here to reveal the message based on the full GAY love fairy tale) We obviously all know how deeply Steve loves, of course He didn't finally see Morris as he was dying, and there was even a flashback of his mother calling him home as a child—a textual rhetoric where he ended up hearing his lover's love on the phone. And understanding and deep sadness.
The whole trick from lying in the hospital bed to the end of the retrospective is actually the climax of the film, the solution of the mystery. It's almost similar to "The Sixth Sense", but we all experience a strange joy when our previous sympathy for Philip and Steve's broken love and reluctance for Steve's life, in such a way When satisfied, the sublime aesthetic experience as pain is instantly pulled back to the pleasure-style comedy experience, with a bad and helpless feeling, we have to end up embarrassed and can only identify with this Steve. I agree with him and the way he loves, and with the various expressions of love, because this god of acting, he used death, at least a successful performance of death, to win a new life, at least a new life of love. This deception is grand and more mundane, with postmodern carnival smugness.
Everything is a lie, only love is true. Everyone, including Morris, will believe this.
From the beginning of the film, there is an empty shot of clouds flowing in the sky, which is so fragile, beautiful and illusory. When Steve finally understood who he was and what he wanted, and was accepted by the other party. In the last shot, Steve, who escaped from prison again in the distant view, ran to the camera with a wild laugh, shaking up, and the clouds in the sky turned into an erect penis that he had identified as a child. We seem to be able to judge that this stick, not the Fehrers, the symbol of the center of male rights, is not the patriarchal system of heterosexuality and heterosexual hegemony, he is just an initial identification and sexual interest and the love that comes with it. Way. Sex and love are fluid, even as crazy as Steve. But if there are all strict classifications such as the dichotomous structure of males and females, there is the dominant Western way of thinking, that is, the existence of the "two-division prison" of the dichotomous way of thinking, and the heterosexuality for the purpose of breeding offspring exists. The father as the authoritative family is defined as "normal" and the way of thinking that suppresses and marginalizes other gender identities exists, and the Steves will continue to laugh and escape from prison. It is in this sense that this article completes its queer expression .PS
When
I watched the film, I suddenly felt a little bit, first of all WHEN TWO HEARTS RACE, BOTH WIN. Secondly, as long as he loves me, what kind of person is he, and what does it matter?
There is a very vulgar joke that _ The female Yinjiao said angrily, you are bad, you lied~!! The male silver said, "Well, let me lie to you for the rest of my life.
Oops, it's so disgusting."
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