Whenever the same movie is mentioned, many people will think of handsome men and sensuality, especially American light comedy series. Although there are also serious groups like God Bless Bobby who explore realistic themes, but because it is based on real events, there are traces of all the development and extension. However, Weekend has made a completely fictional story so realistic and so lifelike.
If the large sections of landscape shots in Brokeback Mountain give people a feeling of tediousness and loss, then those blank paragraphs in the weekend time seem extraordinarily random. Without the beautiful scenery, the pictures of city streets are more realistic. Buildings with uneven levels, slightly rusted apartments, slippery streets, swaying buses. Everything in the story is in the fireworks of the world, and the sense of reality is realized. The dialogues of the characters are rich, and they are always on point, never deliberately done when they are not needed. If the story of Brokeback Mountain is beautiful and long, then the encounter in the weekend time is a typical encounter of urbanites. The two met in a bar in the vast crowd. The relationship was originally just a one-night stand, but it changed because of a small tape recorder. The last time the two parted, it was different from the previous direct departures. They stopped and looked back to reveal their true emotions. There is no intense emotional catharsis, no sensational words, just a look back, and everything is clearly expressed. The so-called untouched but fascinating, and that's it.
Under the calm story, in addition to the emotions of the two, there is also a fierce collision of ideas. Two people with different attitudes to life have heated arguments in the middle of the night in order to make each other understand and accept their way of life. Just like people in real life, ideas collide and sparks are generated because of communication. Conservative and radical, seemingly opposites, but there is no sense of disobedience. It's like one advance and one retreat in a ballroom dance. It seems inconsistent, but the connection is just right.
You look like you wanna kiss me.
I do.
Go on then.
Whether it's madness on the dance floor, intense sex on the bed, debate on the couch, or denial in the kitchen, it's a way for two people to express their hearts . No need to set off, no need to describe, the love grows in the hearts of the two and spreads, so that the audience in front of the screen can easily feel it, even longing for it.
However, tomorrow I will be leaving, no matter how hot you and I are today, it cannot change this fact. Whether to separate yourself from this relationship or continue to fight for it is a too difficult decision. As the film progresses, I have been thinking about whether the film will eventually fall into the old-fashioned retention ending. Fortunately, reality has always been the main theme of this film, and it will not compose a happy reunion to cater to any aesthetic feeling. On the contrary, it ended the encounter between the two people in an abrupt way. At the last station, there were no sweet words of parting, no emotional words from the heart, just a kiss in front of the platform, accompanied by the whistles of the people around. And sighs, have nothing to do with perfection.
In the end, two ordinary people who were not perfect experienced encounter, never made a promise to wait, and then parted. One person left, leaving the other person in the huge city, looking out from the window.
But all this is real.
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