When I was in college four years ago, I chose American society and culture as a public elective course. At that time, my homework was to watch a very period western movie. The painting style and content were very similar to this one. At that time, I didn't know how to find resources, so I spent a lot of time trying to find that movie that was not very popular and not good-looking. When I opened it, I found that the content was so unpredictable that I was half-dead. Now, when I watch movies of the same style, I can think and understand slowly and calmly. This is probably growth.
Originally, it was for Keanu Reeves and the handsome Phoenix guy in the actor's profile, but I didn't expect that the style of the movie in 1991 would be so age-like. Large-area color block impact, empty plains, incoherent and illogical plots, dramatic irony, sad and desperate atmosphere, down-to-earth and fragile male protagonist... The director never thought of being easy to understand, he just wanted to make it easy to understand Only those who understand understand. Even so, this film is still moving enough, thanks to the actors represented by Brother Rui Fan.
The story is very simple. The main line is the friendship between a swinger and a low-level male prostitute. The son wanders the streets and meets a group of homeless people. He has the best relationship with the male prostitute. In the process, the son fell in love with a woman and left the male prostitute who loved him. In the end, the male prostitute did not find his mother. After the son inherited the family property, he also broke with his former friends. There is a hint of hope at the end, the male prostitute passes out on the road, his property is looted, and the son drives him away as before.
Just watching the movie, I would think that this is a film from the 1960s and 1970s, with hippie culture, the beat generation, allusions to politics, the background music like a ghost movie, the setting of the implied hope at the end of the whole despair, and even the preface does not. The sense of absurdity in the afterword is not like a product of the 1990s. Later, when I saw that the script was written in the 1970s and the director was influenced by Shakespeare, I felt it was normal.
I don't quite agree with the movie being labelled with the same sex. The male prostitute's confession to the son is about to burst into tears. Is he still just a friend?
One of my favorite snippets:
They chat by the campfire
The male prostitute said incoherently, "I know we are friends, but I still feel so far away from you."
The son patted the soil around him and said, "Come here, come this way."
And then the scene switches to their motorcycle broke down on the road, the road is difficult but very happy
Finally, let's end it with "Falling Flowers and Flowing Water"
"If this trip is happy, it will be a life
The water point evaporates and turns into a white cloud, the petals fall downstream and take root
It's fate that it's going to happen
Can we talk about separation in a regretful tone?
Habit is impermanent will be happy
Tell the truth, who is the guest on the way to the end of the world, and how do you divide the table?
...
They meet each other without leaving a mark
But I have experienced the most gentle resonance"
The road of life, loneliness is the norm
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