The last scene, Brian dancing alone on the Babylonian stage, I think it's a return, a return to his own nature, at that moment, or from that moment, he became the Babylonian stage, the Pittsburgh Liberty Avenue, Become the eternal king in his own heart.
Some people say that Brian has been tamed since he fell in love with Justin, some people say that the most unruly beast of the past has ceased to exist since he learned about love, and some people say that Brian went around a circle and returned to the starting point. And I said, Somethings are not meant to change. For example, Brian's nature, he will always be a high-ranking king, well-dressed, proud and cold, smart and conceited, sexy and wild, even if his life is rotten and promiscuous, but this is him, no one dares to judge, no one has the ability Change, he is the king admired by all people, always loyal to himself and pursuing freedom. However, as mentioned above, it is impossible not to leave traces on a person in five years. For Brian, it took him five years to taste love, understand love and gain love. As Dumbledore said in Harry Potter, love is the greatest weapon, only love is invincible. So we would like to thank Justin for shining into Brian's life like a sunshine and saving Brian's soul. No love in a person's life is terrible, and a person who does not know love and does not believe in love is the saddest person in his life, so Brian, five years later, is more humane, wiser, and more charming, we There's reason to believe that even if Justin doesn't come back, Brian will be able to live his life with this true love.
I love Brian the most, but in QAF, I would say, the most tragic and unsolved is Brian.
Brian is a typical American ultra-liberal and egoist. It is said that he is tragic because love and nature cannot exist in Brian at the same time. In other words, love is Brian's Achilles heel. Once he is deeply in love with someone, he is in danger of losing himself. As you can see from the last few episodes of season five, after Babylon exploded, Brian changed. Some people said he finally opened his heart. Some people said that the prince and the prince could finally live happily. I said, this is a tragedy. We saw what Brian did, he said goodbye to his rotten life, sold the club and the loft, bought a house for Justin, said I love you to Justin, proposed to Justin twice, willing to step back into the past with Justin His most despised marriage hall. For Justin's sake, he dropped his body and gave everything he had. Is this still Brian? totally not. I even wonder sometimes, Uncle B, did you blow your head off by the explosion, or were you scared away from your nature. The only explanation is that Brian loves Justin too much and is too afraid of losing Justin, so everything he does after that is to keep Justin and make Justin happy. However, he has lost himself because of this, which is really distressing. In the last episode of season 5 he was lying in bed with Justin, planning his married life, he even talked about growing flowers and hugging, but I couldn't see happiness and joy in his face, only dullness. Because he didn't even know himself because of Justin; and such Brian wasn't the love Justin was willing to fly to. As Justin said, Brian couldn't give him the life he wanted, to give it was to sacrifice, and now, Brian is sacrificing himself. Brian should be and will always be free. Marriage, monogamy, settle down, vows, and other seemingly warm and beautiful things are poison for Brian. Fortunately, Justin is as smart as he is, "But I want you to be happy" "The closer you get to the wedding, the farther away the person I know is from me" "It's not you, although it looks and feels like... .
Some people say that Brian will grow old too, right? Yeah, but I can't and can't bear to imagine him getting old. How Brian deals with the passage of time and the absence of youth is the most inexplicable part of the play. Time is the most cruel weapon, and only it can destroy all beautiful people and things mercilessly, including the godlike Brian. Brian is most afraid of getting old and he looks up to James Dean because he not only knows how to live but also how to die. Those who passed away in the most beautiful years, Marilyn Monroe, River Phoenix, John Lennon, they will always leave their youth in the world, and only beauty will always be there. Brian had this idea subconsciously, so on his 30th birthday, he bought himself a white scarf and nearly hanged himself at home. Several scenes in the film are exaggerating the tragedy of Brian's Babylonian dynasty coming to an end. On the dance floor, he and the handsome young blond stared at him, as if he saw himself when he was young, foresaw that someone would take his place one day; on the high stage, he imagined that Mike would come to him as usual and forgive him. And love him all the time, but it's just his hallucination, the cruel reality is that Mike has a more important lover than him; he and Mike are sitting like gentlemen in the restaurant, outside the glass window are their young figures, and they are. But can only sigh that youth is no longer. Some people say that what time should be done at any time. Brian didn't want to go with the flow, he just wanted to be PeterPan forever. However, he watched helplessly, Mike, who had said that he would always be by his side, got married, Justin, who could never get rid of him, flew away, and Babylon, who was once brilliant, was bombed beyond recognition. The things he loves most are all moving forward, and he is the only one who perseveres, persevering in eternal youth, the price of which is a person's stubborn loneliness. Maybe, Brian will quit Babylon and live the petty bourgeoisie life of mortals; maybe, Brian will really end his life at the age of 39 as he said. However, we have no way of knowing, and I don't want to imagine that Brian in the play is forever young, he will always be the king of Babylon, and he will always dance on the high platform.
Mike wakes up Brian, You will always be young, you will always be beautiful, you are Brian Kinney for fuck sake! So the king we know, Brian Kinney, is finally back.
The song proud is used at the beginning and the end of the whole play. The top floor of the hospital and the dance floor of Babylon are actually eulogizing the king of Brian: I see through the window of my soul that I have left my fear behind and refused. The mediocre life feels that the soul is relieved, I am on the road, unstoppable, life has infinite possibilities, as long as the body and mind are free, there are still too many answers I don’t understand. Answering the confusion about life is the way to grow.
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