This article is not a film review, but an afterthought, which contains my review and understanding of the film. If your understanding is different from mine, or if I am biased, please leave a message.
1. About the plot
1. The initial heartbeat
From the very beginning, M and F casually but cautiously talked about N in the kitchen, and then M and F turned their heads one after another and peeped at N, which showed that M and N began to vaguely fall in love with N. Even when F and M were invited out for coffee by N, F's excitement about M on the phone could hardly conceal F's inner excitement at this time.
In the process of drinking coffee, when N talked about his career-related knowledge, M and N's expressions echoed, but their minds were completely appreciating N's every move rather than the content of the conversation. Looking at the little nympho eyes of M and N, they are simply too infatuated and too cute.
Later, when choosing clothes, F and M clearly care about N, but when they talk about N casually, they both express "he is not my type". This scene and the conversation at the beginning seem to be familiar. It is obvious that the deer are rambling in their hearts, but they are shy and shy to express it, even to the closest pair of best friends.
It can be said that Dolan showed the heartbeat and shyness of young people vividly in these 3 minutes and 30 seconds.
2. Emotional development period
This process can be said to be a process in which the two good sisters are always in a cycle of joy and loss. When the music of "Bang Bang" sounded, M carefully dressed up, F sprayed perfume and permed his hair according to the male star in the photo. When he went to the appointment one after another, he all wanted to show N his best self. Whether it's F buying Hepburn's portrait, the chance meeting at the corner cafe, or M and N going to the theater to watch a play, or going to a Vietnamese restaurant, these series of actions are all to win N's goodwill, and they strongly hope to have a relationship with N. Stay that long. But when they were alone, the two of them were always very nervous in their hearts, and the speed of their speech was quicker and their movements were messy.
When attending N's party, they prepared gifts at the same time, but because N and other friends drank high, they didn't even look at the gifts, which made the two sisters chat in the room boringly and tell each other how the other was dressed. Delicate, and these didn't get N's attention, leaving them both disappointed. After N danced with other women, the two sisters cast disdainful eyes and expressions at the same time, and said some very jealous words.
But in this part, it can be seen that the emotions in the hearts of men and women who are caught in the whirlpool of love are extremely fragile and sensitive. As long as the other party expresses a little bit, the action or expression is infinitely magnified in his heart, and he fantasizes it into an action full of affection, thus generating a heart-to-heart move. But once the other party's attention is not on himself, his heart is infinitely lost, and pain and emptiness occupy the whole heart.
3. The intensification of contradictions
The three of them went out for a country outing, but they became the extremity of the jealousy between the two good sisters. First, F couldn't get used to M saying he wanted to pee when he pretended to like Hepburn, and then M couldn't get used to N feeding F marshmallows by the bonfire at night (this part is so flirtatious, he smiled ashamedly), he said he wanted to sleep , are full of gunpowder smell. When M woke up the next morning and found that F and N were playing outside, M couldn't bear it, and the emotional conflict intensified, and finally M and F fought wildly in the woods. At this time, N also had enough of M and F to tease, and felt very boring. In short, he ended everything arrogantly.
4. Sad breakup
In this incident, N intentionally avoided M and F. When M and F were alone and unbearable, they both called N. Not surprisingly, these calls were all turned into voicemails, and the love letters sent by M to N never came back. After a long wait and loneliness, F decided to go to N's house to find him in person. After N listened to F's affectionate confession, he only said indifferently: "Why do you think I'm gay." This sentence is the end of the conversation. As F went downstairs, the whole lights dimmed. It also implies that F's heart is ashes.
In the end, M also made a chance encounter with N in the coffee shop, but when she brought up the letter, she told a lie that she didn't even believe in herself. Here she did not have 100% courage to confess, because she was afraid of being rejected, afraid of being rejected. heartbroken. When the lie had to be exposed and she had to confess, M said: "What if that poem was sent to you?" N said indifferently: "Then I...still go back to the kitchen to make soup." Although M Expecting the result to be like this, despite M's preparations for heartbreak, her heart still escaped into the abyss, and her heart was so broken that even the match could not be lit.
Sometimes it's really heartbreaking. Others treat your emotions as shit, but you stick it up without hesitation. In the end, you swallow it hard and wipe away your tears. But who can avoid it? Who called man an emotional species? I really feel that Dolan can capture this delicate emotion that is unique to young people and show it completely. Not to mention others, when I saw this, I completely resonated, and my heart trembled.
2. On the subject
The title of the movie - fantasy in fantasy love may be understood in this way: F and M, or we, the object of love is only what our heart desires, and the image we imagined by ourselves, this object does not matter who it is, it is just an inner fantasy It's just a carrier, it can be Nick, Dick, or Cook. In fact, this person is not necessarily as good as we think, maybe there is no similarity at all, but once we get even the slightest feeling from him, and then we keep adding fantasies about him in our minds. Build a complete image. And this so-called "love" comes and goes quickly, mainly because of how to get rid of the quagmire in their hearts. After F and M were woken up by N's slap, they immediately developed disgust for N. The end of the film can reflect this very well: after M and F were cruelly rejected by N, they found a new carrier of love at the party and started a new round of "fantasy love".
On a deeper level, why do fantasies arise? I think this film is more about reflecting the loneliness, lack of love and emptiness in the hearts of young people or modern people. At the end of the film, M said: "It's not a matter of not doing it, what I want is not a physical relationship, that's not the point, the point is to be able to wake up with someone, hug each other to sleep, and be able to hug, that's the point. It's very important...even if you wake up in the cold wind, you can feel the warmth of love, and the person you love is breathing beside you, that's enough, that's the essence of hugging." Indeed, as the movie begins The introduction of , love is actually very simple, it only needs a lover who can wake up with him, fall asleep together, feel his breath, smell, body temperature and so on. But where is the loved one?
F has tried so many times, and drew countless marks on the wall to record the number of times he was rejected, and then every time he got a little moved, he would look down at the marks, hoping that one day he would be able to stop completely, but in the end Just reluctantly add another stroke with different colored pencils in vain.
There are four about *cannon scenes in the film. It's true that sex can make you feel another person's breath, you can feel another person's body temperature, but it's not love. Attempts to fill the psychological emptiness and loneliness through physical satisfaction, but the psychological torture afterwards is even more violent. Make an appointment with someone you don't know, you can do it without covering up in front of them, keep smoking, numb your nerves to cut off the pain, or hug your head and cry like a child, the tears are crystal clear in the night light, enjoy the hug But feel nothing. Afterwards, there was no tenderness, and they each returned to their own orbits, as if nothing had happened. This is similar to Sam Smith's "Stay With Me". Here, their emptiness and loneliness are photographed to the extreme.
In order to show the universality of this sense of emptiness, first, Dolan deliberately used two lines to narrate what M and F did when they fell in love with a person. These two lines seem to be contrasting, but in fact But they complement each other. Although M and F have different sexual orientations, the love they express and the way they express love are the same. Second, after M finished talking about love and hugs in the hair salon, the barber said, "I've seen this situation a lot!" Third, I think in the monologues and interviews interspersed in the movie, everyone is talking about themselves Or the tragedy of other people's love, maybe because of the common sense of emptiness (but it can also be understood as Dolan's own style of making movies~)
3. About Dolan
Finally, I once again confessed to Dolan that he is a director who truly understands the inner activities of young people in this era. I am not a professional. From the perspective of an ordinary audience, from his editing, to every shot, from the retro soundtrack to the retro but fashionable outfits, people can feel a full sense of art. Really delicate. In terms of plot and theme, it is very connotative and can really make my heart move. This is why I like him and his works.
Before this, I'd only watched "I Killed My Mom," "It's Just the End of the World," and "Lawrence Two Sides," but I liked this one the most and felt the most.
ps .lady gaga's "Bang Bang" is also very good!
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