From the movie, it is difficult to say that the revolutionary Valentine fell in love with Molina, but Molina fell in love with Valentine and participated in the revolutionary activities. After reading it, I feel that a character like Molina deserves praise. Valentine's unforgettable memory at the end is still Marta, and Marta is a middle-class woman as he said, the reason why Valentine was arrested by the police, from the film, it seems that Marta is suspected of being a whistleblower. Contrary to what my friend told me before, she said the film showed that a revolutionary, if radical, would jump out of the heterosexual category. I think it might be better if the film was adapted like this. Let Valentine be a gay revolutionary, Molina is a heterosexual, and in the end Molina fell in love with the revolutionary and became a revolutionary, maybe this film is more valuable. In the current plot, Molina participates in revolutionary activities out of love for Valentine. Valentine's heart is still the revolution, and there is no change from beginning to end.
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The above view is a very superficial view. At the end of the novel, Valentine confides in Marta's long passage that Valentine has fallen in love with Molina. At that time, the Communist Party was against homosexuality and regarded it as something of the bourgeoisie; revolutionaries were easily stigmatized by homosexuality. It is difficult for Valentine to admit that he is gay when he is conscious, and it is also difficult for Valentine to pour out his tenderness to his loved one as a man who is very traditionally disciplined by a patriarchal society. So he confided his love for Molina to Marta in his sleep.
Molina's behavior of helping Valentine to pass a message after he was released from prison cannot be understood as just out of love for Valentine. This is a revolutionary behavior. Molina took out all the deposits in the bank before passing on the information. This detail implies that Molina knew that he was likely to lose his life. From this life-or-death perspective, Molina's actions were political, revolutionary. Molina first told Valentine about the Nazi propaganda film, Molina said: "I don't care about politics, I only care about love." Through the comparison of Molina's behavior before and after, it can be seen that Valentine transformed Molina into a revolutionary in his relationship with Molina.
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