Let's start with Dolan's talent.
If he's good-looking, he knows he's good-looking, he knows how to look good, he knows how to tell stories, well, those are really part of it. Editing skills, shots, etc. As a person who doesn't know anything, the intuitive feeling is: the way of telling a story is very comfortable, it can bring people in, it can bring out the emotions, and there is tension.
However, there is a problem here. Of course, this credit cannot be fully attributed to Dolan. Looking at his other films, I feel that his storytelling ability is only average. . . This drama is basically a drama, so the dramatic tension itself is a guarantee.
But being able to build a story might really be Dolan's talent?
There is a thing in the drama called the face of language, and probably Dolan is the kind of person who has a good "face of language". He's able to tell a story something more powerful and enjoyable than the story, and that's what makes him great, and that's what makes this movie great.
If you want to tell this story well, you must first have an entry point.
Dolan's entry point has always been very subjective, by putting in some of his known feelings, understandings, and then empathizing.
Many people say that this movie is incomprehensible, depressing, suspenseful, and terrifying. . I really don't think so. This movie belongs to those who know the end after watching the beginning. The only uncertainty is whether Tom saves himself or perishes in the end, and this uncertainty can almost be said to depend on the director's taste. And Dolan chose to let Tom save himself, that's all.
I don't think the movie is depressing, because the entry point of the movie is Tom's feelings, his feelings for his ex-boyfriend, his ex-boyfriend's family, his feelings for francis, the farm, the world and himself - these are all very real. In his heart, he really wanted to be close to francis, not only because of his ex-boyfriend, but also because of the existing sexual tension between the two.
In other words, in a relationship of controlling and being controlled, the feelings are always mutual, and it's not just that francis "loves" tom (at least in his own way, as he calls out in the forest at the end, He does really love Tom), of course Tom "loves" Francis, even a little obsessed. He would repeat what francis had said, and would say "perfume is for weddings" with a slightly defiant (but totally submissive) attitude after francis used the perfume as if he had received some kind of reward— -tom has always been aware of Francis' inner desire, and the sexual invitation at this time came naturally.
However, the next two sentences and two tears of Tom basically characterize the character, that is, he is not a real controlled person, but a kind of extreme situation under the premise of the death of his ex-boyfriend and the loss of his love. . . ooc it. This also paved the way for Tom's escape later.
The whole process is not just fear and escape for Tom, but two changes in his attitude towards life after losing his beloved. The death of his lover made him suffer and blame himself. This kind of blame needs to be dismissed, otherwise Tom will always be in a state of no love. However, when he transferred his feelings and was threatened by his life, he realized that he still had a life.
So when I finally returned to the city, everything was so empty, but safe.
What a nihilism.
But it's safe.
There is another point that I thought I was thinking too much, but later when I saw that the clothes were also made by Dolan, I felt that it was probably not my own thinking. .
It is the last song going to a town that is obviously still very important for the title. The lyrics are always in i'm tired of you america. Francis can be seen in the last back view, he is wearing an American flag style writing Wearing a huge USA baseball shirt. So Tom finally got out of that short-lived state, and after he woke up, he no longer needed Francis.
As for Francis, no matter how handsome, no matter how tragic, no matter how attractive Tom is, a sadist is a sadist, even if he loves Tom, he will never really see Tom as an adult. He will never put Tom on an equal footing with his own personality. This can also be seen in his attitude towards women. Straight male cancer is more homophobic, um, homophobia is deep in the closet →_→
And finally, when francis was shouting that I need you and you let me down, Tom is obviously restraining himself and standing up, which is also a kind of self-struggle Show it.
And before he saw the boy whose face was torn off, Francis, who couldn't help but dance in his mind, was still dancing. After seeing it, the Francis he subconsciously remembered was just a despicable back isolated by everyone.
In fact, this is the story of a blond man who falls in love with a perverted farmer and is eventually scared away (.
But the film's main theme is nihilism and there is a shining point, which is the city lights at the end of Dolanga
. Lyrics, i got a life to lead, i got a soul to feed.
In fact, for tom, facing a lonely and desolate world independently is far more difficult than being controlled by francis, but in the end, he saw his own life , he returned to reality from that obsession with the dead.
Above nihilism, life. It was also the rise of self-awareness.
But Tom does have a part of francis forever. After the green light is turned on, the screen suddenly goes black , that kind of strong he may turn around and go back by himself like last time. Fear and attraction are the most terrifying parts of Stockholm Syndrome.
That is, you will always have the possibility and desire to go back.
But in the final analysis, Dolan is still Young, so a little naive.
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