If you are born you only live once

Lonzo 2022-03-25 09:01:18

- All beings

There are many faces in the movie, irrelevant to the plot.

At the beginning of the song "If I had a heart" sounded, and the faces of various street figures began to appear. Years later, on the street, Lawrence only turned around to reveal a small half of her face. She was wearing a light blue suit and skirt and disappeared into the smoke. In the classroom, Lawrence put the pin between his fingers and quietly observed the faces of the students under the podium. On Lawrence's birthday, on his way home in the rain, he passed the faces of women with perms in the pink hair salon, the faces of young babies in shelters from the rain, and the faces of people at the birthday party. The faces of people dining before and after the eruption at the restaurant on Saturday morning. For the first time, Lawrence wears women's clothing and walks the faces of students and teachers in the school corridors. The faces of the various characters at the drag ball (there's also a scene with Dolan here). Perhaps these are all Lawrence's subjective lenses, using all kinds of human faces and their facial expressions to express all beings, representing the public society and marginalized figures, Lawrence's fears and desires.

(Although it doesn't matter) Reminiscent of the posters of the 31st party's cut-off human head / The Beatles' Pepper Army Cao and the Lonely Hearts Club.


-"I am proud of you"

- "I'm proud of us"

Between Lawrence and Ferb, the movie takes the romance to the extreme, both before and after Lawrence's change. The way they chatted in the car, and the way the two walked on the black island full of colorful clothes, hand in hand and laughing unscrupulously. There is a scene where the little Buddha looks back and then Lawrence looks back, and then the two turn back, leaving only a blue and a purple back in the picture, as if saying goodbye to the daily life, especially the little Buddha, she turns around with a Hesitation and impatience. This part is really amazing. Juno has a song "Queer". The lyrics are based on the queer theory in Western deconstructionism. In the lyrics, "If you know that there is some kind of love in the world, you need to be cool and honest. If you are born, you can only live once." Speaking of Lawrence, there is also such a sentence describing the little Buddha, "I would like to accompany you to block today's cruelty".

Of course Little Buddha loves Lawrence, no matter before or after he changes, just like the couple who lived on the Black Island said, Little Buddha loves Lawrence. But what she is afraid of is facing this society, and she is afraid to stand with the changed Lawrence to face the whole world. Xiao Buddha said that it was Charlotte's fault for ruining all this, a rare time away from society and ordinary times on an isolated island. Little Buddha said to his sister and mother, "I have to wake up beside him". "I love you more than I love my own child," Fred said to Lawrence, almost in a state of collapse.


-Determined.

Lawrence loves Little Buddha very much. In his book, he wrote that Little Buddha is a woman from A to Z. She went to peep at Little Buddha, painted a red hint on the white brick wall, and sent Little Buddha a message. Book. But in the end, it was Lawrence who first understood that "before we became marginalized, we were already on the margins".

They parted in a restaurant, when Lawrence opened her mouth and spat out a black butterfly instead of holding on, and when she blinked, maybe it was doomed to not be together. The changed Lawrence knew exactly what she wanted, and she was willing to stay away from this planet and never return to the ground again. During the interview, she was completely confident and graceful from the heart.

Xiao Buddha also gradually understood that she was no longer struggling. She looked at her husband and son on the street from the window, and she also showed a satisfied smile.

Even if they can't stay together, the love between Ferb and Lawrence is there, AZ from beginning to end.


-555-1987

- you are my daughter

Little Buddha's sister and Lawrence's mother also described the content of family affection in a full, rather than facialized manner. Family love is an indispensable theme in every Dolan movie I've seen so far.


-It's Laurence, anyway.

The end of the story is also the beginning of the story, not sad. Brings you a warm smile.

If you want to talk about the genre of this film, it must be a romance film. It's getting less and less accustomed to classifying a movie as homosexual or transgender. Watching the fetish hormones a few months ago seemed to give me the first time a feeling that love is not just man and woman, man and man, or woman and woman, it's people.

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