In fact, I have known this film since 2009. When the project was set up, Lucian was rumored to be Ben to play the role. Out of my special feelings for Ben, I really paid attention to it for a while, but there was no news after that. Ben also started filming "Cloud Atlas", so I completely forgot about it. I didn't start paying attention until last year when I saw Daniel play Alan Ginsburg in this film.
The film has experienced ups and downs, the team has changed, and the role of Ben is also played by Dain De Haan. I haven't finished watching this movie, I've watched it for about 70 minutes, I really can't watch it anymore. I'm glad in my heart that Ben took on other dramas and didn't appear in this film.
In a word: It's very, very uncomfortable to watch a few straight men act in gay films.
This is the director's debut, most of the time, the film is dull without climax, the rhythm is disordered, and the characters are single and pale. The director seems to be trying his best to express the unruly and unbridled lifestyle and pursuit of the "Beat Generation", but the result that appears makes people feel constrained and extremely uncomfortable. The entry is hastily and too quickly, and the choices of the characters feel extremely unbelievable and contrived. It is also idealistic, and it is also the passion and surging in the academy. "Morris" makes people feel that the characters are real and credible, with the unusual vigor of young people. In "After the Wind and Rain", their debauchery is also convincing. Together with Charles, bewitched by Sebastian and their wanderlust. "Kill Your Love" just makes me think that you might as well take a break when a child is playing at home.
Even if there are a few bright spots, it will instantly remind people of similar scenes in similar films, and then this film will be reduced to inferior. For example, the first time Ginsberg enters Lucian's bedroom, the plot will immediately remind people of the first time Morris walks into Edward in "Morris" (is that the name? Hugh Grant's character anyway) In the bedroom, the two first met that scene. Or in "After the Wind and Rain in the Hometown", Charles walked into Sebastian's bedroom for the first time, and Sebastian fell in love with Charles.
Compared with the deep still waters of the plots mentioned in the above two films, "Kill Your Love" is straightforward and rough, and the only bright spot is Lucian, played by Dane.
Lucian, played by Dane, will remind people of many people. He is very similar to Sebastian, feminine and melancholy. The first impression I got from Dane's character was that it did resemble Ben's Sebastian. And Dane's later performance and appearance made me think that he is very similar to the Rimbaud played by Xiao Li in "Total Eclipse Crazy Love". Coincidentally, Lucian also likes Rimbaud. However, compared to Sebastian's femininity and melancholy and the innocence of a young man, Lucian is too worldly; compared to Rimbaud's youthful enthusiasm and innocence unique to a child, Lucian is too pretentious.
In a certain way, Lucian and Sebastian have similarities. Sebastian was obsessed and suppressed by his mother's beliefs all his life, and finally chose to escape from the family, give up his identity and status, and wandered all his life. Lucian was deeply troubled by his teacher's admiration, and could not escape in every possible way, and finally chose to face each other. But unfortunately, all of Sebastian's actions are thorough and he never regrets it. And Lucian did everything he did, and he began to regret it before it was halfway through.
As for the Rambobi with Xiao Li, please don't joke.
Another point, Ben's Sebastian and Xiao Li's Rimbaud, both have a long description of their bohemian youthful years, and the people in them are all free and easy, playing in the world. The character settings in "Kill Your Love" (not just Lucian) are similar to the former, but why, I always feel that they are not in the state at all when I look at them. Just pretending to be chic in order to be smart, pretending to be in love in order to show deep love. Acting for the sake of acting.
Thus, the role is reduced to inferior again.
In the second half of this film, if it weren't for Dain De Haan's beauty and blue eyes, I'm afraid I would have given up in the middle of it. Therefore, I am indeed a little bit bewitched by this actor. For example, when Spider-Man is released next month, the little Green Goblin, who is so tender, juicy and beautiful in both comics and movies, is the one who will play...
As for Daniel Radlikoff, I think he is a rotten actor, but he does not inherit the innate gay temperament of rotten actors, which makes me feel that his future acting career will be very worrying. Unlike Emma Watson, who has an amazing beauty and a successful transformation. Without Rupert's superb acting skills, it is very, very, very difficult for him to break through the image of Harry Potter. You see, he has even worked as a guarantee for an actor in a corrupt country: he has already acted in gay films, but he still has no feel, which is really worrying for him.
If Dane is convincing because of his melancholy temperament, feminine face, and conscious performance, at least he is like a man who is deeply troubled by his teacher's love and wants to escape from prison and yearn for freedom. Then Daniel is really completely out of state. He really isn't Allen Ginsburg. No step to say is to convince me.
The actors who starred in this film are basically straight men, which also directly led to the violation of the aura of this gay film. But then again, this has nothing to do with your actor's sexual orientation. In "Heart too restrained", Uncle Fried, Qiu Hua, and Charlie Sheen are all actors who are straighter than straight men, but does "Heart too restrained" give people a sense of disobedience? It gives the impression that only Wilde's tragic love brings the eternal sorrow of fate. Not to mention anything else.
The actor's self-cultivation. Although these words are often ridiculed, they are really very important. What you're doing has nothing to do with your sexuality. It's not that you acted in a gay movie, or that you sell meat in the movie, you can advertise yourself as a big step forward in your acting career. If you think so, then you must have no money.
One more thing, maybe it's true, there is a natural aura in the rotten country making gay films. Of the good gay films I can list, nine out of ten come from the British team. You can see that the people of the corrupt country have reached the kind of situation where even if the original novel has no basic feelings, they have to make basic feelings when they make a film. For example, "The Tinkerer". The uncles inside are abusive, deeply in love, and kill each other. You lie to me, I lie to you, you kill me, and I smile and accept something. They will definitely force you to be abused and abused. (Colin Firth, as a pure straight man, did he play gay so easily with his family? Hehe, he was named emperor by gay films, you forgot?)
So the whole story of "Kill Your Love" Violation, the source probably comes directly from the director himself →_→ (Daniel, I can only help you here).
All in all, I watched a bad movie, but I was fortunate to have Dain De Haan's beauty to accompany the whole process.
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