same-sex ambiguity

Beth 2022-03-23 09:03:29

I have seen a few same-sex movies, but this is the first time!
Strictly speaking, this is not a same-sex movie. It can only be a point.
After watching the whole movie, there are no obvious features or performances.
But it is this tone that everything is silent, which makes the whole film ambiguous.
When a Japanese officer (Sakamoto Ryuichi) first questioned him (British Army Major Jack) in court and acquitted him, he was already attracted by his honesty, ease and carelessness. The main thing is that his eyes are so beautiful, so divine, and it's all translated in a few shots. It's not like other movies to have a close-up or a fixed expression.
It is a very natural and natural statement that expresses all mental activities. From the beginning to the end, it is a contest of psychological struggle and compromise. When asked to execute the soldier, Jack stepped forward and kissed Ryuichi Sakamoto twice on the face, gently, beside him, in a less sensitive place. The next performance of Long Yi is the highlight of the whole film, a kind of panic, a kind of happiness, a kind of unknown feeling. In an instant, he fell down, all on his face. It's coming too fast, it's too unnatural, it's not the time, it's not ready!
The ending has proved that the buds of love, the two have long known, but they just don't know how to deal with it, so they have to let it grow!
Mr.Lawrence is actually the protagonist and the supporting role. He is just a recorder and the final witness of this story.
During the time of the Imphal campaign, there were such two people, who did not know who took the initiative? Who is playing stupid? Whoever touched it intentionally, it was like two tentacles testing, like a shell opening a little.
Just started and ended, the location is wrong, the environment is wrong, or the characters are wrong?
Who is to blame? Worldly? war? desire?

A good movie worth savoring

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Extended Reading
  • Ethyl 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    For the first time in Japanese film history, the enemy is one of the protagonists. Ryuichi Sakamoto's soundtrack is touching; "Merry Christmas"

  • Jettie 2022-03-16 09:01:09

    The calm and repression of the Yamato nation, the love and human nature on the battlefield, and the conflict between Chinese and Western values ​​of life and death. It seems that it is not enough and too weak to just interpret gay love, after all, gay sex cannot be said to be the center of the film. The scene scheduling of the movie is very good, and the picture is very tense, but there are still some things written that are vague and even redundant. What moved me was the soldier in front of him who committed suicide by biting his tongue. He cried... Ryuichi Sakamoto is so handsome!

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence quotes

  • [last lines]

    Sgt. Gengo Hara: Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence!

  • Group Capt. Hicksley: [about something Yonoi just said] What the hell's Gyo?

    Col. John Lawrence: Uh... It's a Japanese cure for laziness.

    Group Capt. Hicksley: Laziness! Jesus Christ, what makes he...

    Col. John Lawrence: Why don't you listen? He means *spiritual* laziness, and he believes that if he takes away the food and the water, then he also takes away the nourishment of laziness.

    Group Capt. Hicksley: You don't believe that bullshit, do you?

    Col. John Lawrence: I don't fucking know! Sir, I will tell you something that may surprise you! If *we* do it, *he'll* do it.