After watching the crying game, I was deeply shocked by this film. I don't know how to define the genre of this movie. To call it an anti-war movie is too grandiose. To call it gay love seems to be superficial. The movie splits in my mind: one is Fergus and Jody's friendship, and one is Fergus and Dill's same-sex love. The two parts are intertwined. Each has a picture.
Originally, Fergus, who was guarding the British prisoner Jody, had a friendship with Jody in their mutual exchanges. The two have similar smells, and they are both kind-hearted people, and they have a kind of resistance to war. While guarding, the two talked about their hobbies in life and told jokes, all of which went very well. Among them, Jody told a story about a frog and a scorpion, which implied their mutual trust. Human nature is like this and it cannot be changed. You are essentially kind and you are kind, so war can't change you. It was this story that gently opened Fergus' heart, and he began to follow his own heart: that is, he was unwilling to sell his soul for the war. So I miss the hearts of my children when I was young. Later, Fergus had to shoot Jody because of the mission. Jody also knew that he was in trouble, and told Fergus who he liked, and hoped that Fergus would tell her that he loved her for him. Jody was also killed under the wheel. In fact, Jody's death, it should be said that the director handled it relatively gently. It was a good ending not to have Jody killed by Fergus' gun.
The second part is that Fergus takes Jody's last wish to England to find Dill, recognizes her at a barbershop, and follows her to a pub. The bar has a bartender named Cole who acts as an intermediary for their language communication, and he also shows up frequently. At this point, the director's setting of such a dispensable character is also very clever. The reason for this setting, I think Cole should be a calm bystander, through which he can objectively examine some of the things that happened in this bar, so that some background explanations of the story are omitted. For example, the relationship between Dave and Dill, etc., are all learned from Cole. When Fergus fell in love with Dill, he discovered that she was actually a boy. Here is the major turning point of the film. Such a major turning point suddenly pulled the film out of the so-called cliché of love between men and women. It turns out that Jody loves men. Fergus couldn't accept it at first and wanted to escape. But he found himself unable to escape, and he also fell in love with this man. To save him from the distractions of his own mission, he disguises Dill as a man. But Dill tied Fergus in a room to delay his mission. In the end, Fergus was not spared prison. When Dill went to see Fergus, they were still telling the story of the frog and the scorpion. This coincides with the first part. As Dill said, whoever treats her well, she loves him. This reflects the sense of alienation between people and the desire for true love in the society at that time.
The beginning and end of the film correspond exactly to the song. The film begins with "When a man falls in love with a woman" and ends with "When a woman falls in love with a man". The game of crying, in an era of distorted human nature, where true love is constrained by various external factors, is extraordinarily difficult and makes people cry. And the game in the film is: I love you like a moth to a fire, I can't get anything, but I still go through fire and water.
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