If you take the first 10 minutes of the film, you can think of it as a thrilling short film.
University professor Joe took his girlfriend to the outskirts of Oxford for a picnic, and suddenly a red balloon shot out of the sky - not the kind of small balloon that dragged the flying house and ran in the "Up and Down", but a hot balloon that could really travel around the world. balloon. Obviously something went wrong with the balloon. The grandson and grandson were riding the balloon. The grandfather was thrown out of the gondola, and the grandson was still trapped inside. Joe and a few passersby rushed over to help, and a few big men finally managed to grab the hot air balloon. At this moment, a gust of wind suddenly hit, and the hot air balloon suddenly took off, and several people were also carried into the air together. After a moment of hesitation, Joe and the others, including the grandfather, let go of their hands and fell to the ground. Only one person never let go. He flew higher and farther, until he couldn't hold it anymore... In the end, the balloon floated far away and landed. The child inside was safe and sound, while the doctor who tried to rescue him fell and died.
If you only watch the final scene after the subtitles of the film, it is the end of a standard psychological thriller.
In a sunny room in a mental hospital, the second male, who had always looked sloppy before, sat at the table, writing letters with pen in hand, his hair tame, and his beard missing. His face was fresh and pleasant. Then he turned his face to the camera and smiled ambiguous... Suddenly, there was a lot of weirdness, a posture that evil still existed, and a sequel could be expected.
If certain elements are taken into account, it seems that this film is barely justified as a gay film.
After all, the main line of the story is vulgar and summed up, it is a story of a gay psychopath who is chasing a man who has always been a man (does it feel completely out of line with the beginning?), and the starring 007 comrade Daniel Craig is indeed dedicated at the end. A real gay kiss.
But these seem to be just the tip of the iceberg for the whole movie. The opening chapter was finished in just a few minutes, and then left a huge vortex. The two protagonists, Joe and Jed, and many people related to them were involved in a strange development trajectory and struggled.
Joe is an extremely rational person. For example, he regards love as an animal instinct for reproduction and sexual intercourse. For example, he thinks that everything is meaningless. The so-called meaning is forced by human beings. The accident brought by the red balloon became Joe's lingering nightmare. He strongly blamed himself, and his rationality even allowed him to calculate and deduce that if they didn't let go, the balloon would be pulled back and the doctor would not die. .
The eccentric Jed is another person involved in the rescue. He seems to be some kind of mental patient, but it is not explicitly explained in the film. The red balloon also changed Jed's fate, he "love at first sight" for Joe, and began to persevere to follow. Jed is the exact opposite of Joe, he believes in meaning, in what anything means to anyone. Therefore, this adventure was regarded by him as the love of God, the revelation of God, and the doomed destiny.
Joe and Jed are a paradoxical combination of rationality and madness. Joe's mind was stuck at one point and kept going in circles. He became tense, anxious, neurotic, and the relationship with his girlfriend, the whole atmosphere of his life, was destroyed. So in the eyes of others, Joe, who is struggling with rational confusion, looks crazier than Jed, a real mental patient, and is not trustworthy. At least, Jed got one thing right: they're imaginative. They are equally lonely, equally persistent, and equally self-confident and not understood by others. A lot of times there is only a fine line between genius and lunatic. Fortunately, at the end of the film, Joe finally woke up: "I thought too much."
"Unbearable Love" is not good: between the beginning of the magic stroke and the end of the strange and thrilling, it should be the most essence of the film. Parts are unfortunately the most puzzling and dull passages in the whole film. The dialogues between the characters in the process are always in a state of only half-speaking or responding to a secret code. The atmosphere of suspense is unpredictable, and the audience is also in a fog.
But "Unbearable" is really weird enough: it starts with an absurd accident like a fairy, and runs through a shocking crazy infatuation. Through these extremely low-probability daily events, it shows the reality. The cocoon of confusion and love—how fragile is the love that cannot stand speculation, doubt, wild thoughts, and rational reasoning!
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