Before writing this, I tried to compare it to "Brokeback Mountain", the style and approach of the two films are like different dimensions of the same space, side by side, lacking the environment to compare them together. In the film review "Making Love into a Bonsai", it was written that Brokeback Mountain stretched time, and the hindered love between Jack and Ennis took twenty years as the dimension, which was given the weight of life and death and soul-stirring; weekend Time is the exact opposite, narrowing down the emotional waves completely, condensing it into a small weekend, and then zooming in on every conversation, every fight, every bedtime. If Brokeback Mountain is a towering tree, weekend time is like a carefully tailored bonsai. Its branches and leaves are not lush, and its roots and stems are not deep and wide, but it moves vertically and horizontally in a limited world, but it unexpectedly creates a heart-warming effect.
This is a rare literary and artistic style in gay movies. It doesn't need to sell male sex, and it doesn't need a big production. It's still brilliant just relying on shooting skills and lines. British dramas are always in line with my taste, delicate and restrained, a water glass, a pipe, a bonsai in the corner, Russ's slightly shy smile and crow's feet in the corner of his eyes, the cold worry lingering on the street. A scene where Russ smokes a pipe with his straight boyfriend, and a scene where Russ teaches Glen to smoke a pipe. Three times Russ watched Glen leave in the morning from the window. The lines are the highlight of the whole film, "like flowing clouds and flowing water, but full of unexpected novelties". I was very impressed that Glen talked about repainting himself in a different environment, and the friends around him were hiding his brushes. They didn't want him to be colorful, they wanted him to keep the look they liked.
The film maintains the sincerity's prudence and thrilling self-confidence from beginning to end. In a life where homosexuality is discriminated against, he is often scolded as gay, and in a twat environment, Glen wants to fight, wants to stand out, and wants to be the same as heterosexuals. Treated as an equal, Russ felt that there was no point in fighting for things that he didn't even believe in. "Why can't you understand, some people just need simple happiness."
When Glen asked Russ if you were happy, Russ paused and replied in a fragile, slightly crying voice, "I'm okay." "I'm very satisfied with who I am now." I remembered Pessoa's words, The monotonous day-to-day life will become a memory of love I have never experienced, a victory I have never had.
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