When Lou kills David, the floodwaters have breached the dykes, finally sending himself on an unpredictable journey. Carrying a heavy burden, it is attractive in the eyes of people who cannot understand it from the outside world. When you feel a lot about a work, whether you admit it or not, you like it.
The telling method of flashbacks, the tone of retro style, psychedelic rock-like dreams, and changing shooting angles... The director tried his best to restore the protagonist's state of mind, and tried his best to explain that abnormality is normal. Allen was transparent and brave in his feelings, and the free-spirited Lou attracted poets like him. And Lu was ambiguous and cowardly in his feelings, and hurt the people he loved, Allen and David. Injury is also a kind of beauty. Movies don't have a strong attitude that can be used to write news headlines, they simply tell.
During the "New Vision" operation, they were like the warriors of the revolution, and they were indeed warriors. When it comes to breaking the shackles of literature, Lu is no longer cowardly. He loves literature, so he loves those people, and loving those people makes him love literature even more. Except for David, who was already a part of him, but gradually deteriorated. Lu wanted to take that part away so that it wouldn't deteriorate and the relationship could continue. The result was mutual destruction and bloodshed.
About homosexuality. How can the complex emotions, gender, age, identity, etc. be classified. Likewise, there are no clear boundaries between feelings. All discussions are generated in a very small range, about the micro-element method in which quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes. The people who win in the game are mostly people who focus on the game itself rather than winning or losing. The length of time you focus on emotionally affects the quality, as do other factors. Lou's relationship with Allen and David fell victim to an era of what was known as "glorious murder" for the murder of homosexuals.
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