film begins with a female title, and the light and shadow on the walls reflect a closed and narrow story space—the prison. Molina's voice echoes faintly in the small space, and his breath rises and falls with the plot of the story.
Molina, played by William Hurt, is beyond reproach. He didn't follow the popular idea of interpreting a Molina who aspired to be a woman with overly delicate behavior and a pretentious voice. But the film begins as his articulated fingers slowly slide up and down along the lines of his male body, and the seductive femininity is gradually revealed from his fingertips, sitting position, and lightly stomping toes. His male body is accompanied by occasional involuntary female movements, or the tip of his index finger is lightly placed on his neck, or he is leaning on the bed with his thighs together, or his waist is lowered and his buttocks are exposed half of his upper body from between the railings of the bed. The perfect union of men and women who do not violate harmony. This is Molina interpreted by William Hurt, a man who aspires to be a woman who is cared for by a good man for life, but in the end dedicates himself to the career pursuit of the person he loves. A man who loves men.
The film has been partially cut from the novel, and Molina's story to Valentine has been reduced to one and a half (Spider-Woman's story is also short and crisp). But this deletion and change of the storyline did not change an emotional space constructed by the original book. In this space, Molina plays both a male and a female-like role for Valentine: in the hopeless and tedious prison life, his sensitive and delicate feelings challenge Valentine's attitude towards men. His attentive and tireless care gave Valentine an almost lover's care; and his bravery and wit with which he concealed Valentine and demanded food from the prison guards also added to his manly side.
In the movie, Molina's story to Valentine established a heterosexual space that Valentine belongs to and longed for, and through his ups and downs narration and highly performative body language, he allowed himself Gradually blend in with the woman in the story. Molina, played by Hurt, successfully introduced himself into a heterosexual story in the narrative of a story, and silently broke this supposedly pure heterosexual world, gradually constructing a world that is neither gay nor non-gay The fuzzy emotional space of heterosexuality. And then Molina's story of Spider Woman blurred the boundaries between heterosexuality and homosexuality. The Spider Woman on the island rescued Valentine, and she (Molina) took good care of this victim. The man who was brought to the island by the waves, her (Molina) world is no longer lonely because of his existence, the realization of the meaning that life should seek, he is the sustenance of all her feelings, and he became the sustenance for breaking her (Molia) Na) the only person in a lonely and boring life. And that tear, which Molina is unwilling to explain and perhaps cannot explain, the tears of Spider-Woman, may be tears of joy because of emotional possession, or tears of despair because of doomed loss and parting.
The fate of Leni being shot seems to imply the fate of Molina, and the director has ulterior motives for Leini, marta and Spider Woman to be played by the same actor, which seems to imply the existence of these three people and Molina mirroring each other like mirror images. , and their tangled fate with Valentine. The emotional space divided by gender is gradually broken step by step, just like Valentine's gradual acceptance of Molina, and finally, love transcends all boundaries.
I have to admit that the ending of the movie is the biggest flaw compared to the original. The fusion of Marta and Molina in the novel and Valentine's confession to Marta and Molina are interpreted by the film as the single heterosexual feelings of Valentine and Marta. The broken hetero/gay space becomes dull and monotonous because of this failure, and all the floating and border-crossing constructions are frozen into a clichéd heterosexual happy ending brought by death.
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