(Text / Yang Shiyang)
In the cafe, when Jean first saw the girl Sidney, everything was doomed. No one knew what kind of chemical change occurred in Jean's heart, but everyone could hear the sound of the "switch" being activated. Perhaps, for a long time, Jean was just waiting or looking for a reason, an opportunity, a star to ignite the spark of her own fuse, but Sidney happened to appear there and became an inducing device, enticing her to be offside, overstep, off track. The story of "Gypsy", like its name, presents the temperament of turbulence, restlessness and wandering, of course, all of which refer to the spiritual level. Clearly, the story is destined to be intertwined with romance and danger.
The protagonists of the story are a template-like middle-class couple, Jean, a psychiatrist, with her husband and young daughter, living in a quiet house, well-dressed and elegant, with a level lawn and a walk-in Cloakroom, but no one can know what kind of explosives are buried in the heart of that mature, charming, solemn and confident wife waiting to be ignited. Sidney became that little spark, this little-known bar singer and part-time coffee clerk, with a mysterious temperament, dangerous and charming, standing firmly on the opposite side of order and rules. Obviously, this sense of distance inspired Jean's desire. A mature woman and a young girl end up in a whirlpool of eroticism after a hard-to-get-the-reject play. Originally, it looked like a derailment that was a little off-topic in terms of genre, but everything was led to collapse.
One of the directors of "Gypsy" has directed the famous but also infamous "Fifty Shades of Grey", so this story naturally has a fragrant part, but, in addition to the scenes of Fengyue and this seemingly common " In addition to the setting of "The Collapse of the Middle Class", the character settings and metaphors within the story are really more interesting.
The role of the heroine Jean, a psychiatrist, means prying into the privacy itself. It's hard to tell. She sits across from the chair and seduces you to reveal everything that you are trying to hide in your heart. , and the further the story develops, the more blurred this boundary becomes. Jean has taken voyeurism as a pleasure, and even has a clear self-interested purpose.
Following this clue, it is gradually discovered that several of her patients are intertwined into a picture of interrelatedness, mutual reference and mutual interference, and finally together constitute a layer of symbolism in the psychological and spiritual sense. Among those patients was an anxious, control-mad mother who was concerned that her long-grown daughter was out of her control; a man who was devastated by his breakup with his girlfriend, indulging in self-blame, memories, guilt, and hatred; another A drug-addicted girl who confuses others between innocent victims and perpetrators. These patients, on the one hand, are inextricably linked with the heroine in reality, and on the other hand, they all reflect different parts of Jean's own inner world. Her own relationship with her mother is special, alienated and awkward, and her own 9-year-old daughter was identified by the teacher as having gender cognitive impairment because she was too intimate with a female classmate in school. The experiences of the anxious mother and the drug addict inspired Jean to imagine different identities—as a daughter, as a mother—and, more bizarrely, the ex-girlfriend that the distraught man talks about every day is his own The ambiguous object Sidney, so she treated the whole treatment process as a crazy game and manipulation experiment - while collecting information for her own use, she used psychological manipulation to achieve her goals. No matter which of these three people, Jean is professional, considerate and even selfless, but in fact, for which one, she has already crossed the line. She felt that she could become a master performer, and those people were just dolls pulling strings.
Crossing the line is the real theme of The Gypsies. For example, in Jean's life and character, which part is real, and which part is performative? And which parts are false and pretentious? By the end of the story, there is a very grim vision of how nothing seems to be true and nothing is certain.
Is it true that Jean and her husband share a relationship with their daughter in the mansion? Was she sure she longed for it all? If she confirms this, what should be the explanation for the erotic flames in her heart that she has been trying to suppress and eventually spewed out? What about her self-destructive tendencies? Is homosexuality between her and the girl what she really desires? If so, how is she longing to go home, and what is her psychological desire to return to her husband and daughter? You said that at any time, everything she showed to people and the surroundings was just a deliberately created "personality"? But in any kind of life, she seems so devoted, so sincere and so desperate, and at the same time, when she needs to make a choice and has to give up one side, she becomes so ambivalent, so dilemma, so hypocritical So calculated so selfish and callous. Therefore, in this sense, the story accidentally shakes out a truth: the most enjoyable moments of people are in the process of transitioning from a habitual state to another unfamiliar state, that short, full of possibility Sex and the unknown, stirring danger, temptation, sweetness, and adrenaline-filled moments are the real "freedom" moments, free from the trivial life that is about to bury oneself, without completely losing the support of the sense of security.
So, all that Jean does is maintain a delicate balance, manifested in life, it seems to be deceived again and again. From an external perspective, what she did was indeed deception. Facing her little girlfriend, she fabricated her own life and career, and facing her family, she concealed her untamed wildness, but if you look at it from her perspective, You will know that this kind of deceiving her has no worldly intentions, it is more like an adventure and satisfaction in the spiritual world, and she must do it.
From a certain point of view, Jean is like a highly polarized epitome of universal human nature, but most people have not really been able to put their hidden desires into practice. Doesn't everyone want to temporarily escape from a life that suffocates them? At the same time, don't they all look forward to being able to taste the excitement and get pleasure without giving up safety? This is the eternal desire of human beings, and it is also the eternal predicament.
"Gypsy" has its problems, such as the imbalance between the husband and wife story and the emotional clues, the performative teasing between husband and wife, for example, is too contrived, but other than that, it is really a unique story, provocative Understand people's secret desires. In fact, Jean is just like each of us, but what motivates her is a same-sex relationship, and perhaps other desires and ambitions that inspire us, all of which also make us addicted and horrified. And destined, after all, we have nowhere to escape.
(This article was first published in Beijing Youth Daily)
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