There is such a plot in the movie, because a woman in Murakami who has always been disgusted with the gay community called the newspaper and revealed to them that the gay community supported the miners’ strike, which caused the Miners Association to reject the gay community due to the pressure of public opinion. help. However, Mark used this report to expand propaganda and influence, and made an "astounding move" to let more people know what the gay community is doing. When explaining to other puzzled friends, he told Qiao that there is a glorious and long-standing tradition among the gay community, which is called a nickname, which has allowed the gay community to survive for many years. "When someone calls you a nickname, you accept it and make it worthy of its name." Regardless of the ugly nicknames such as "pervert", "gay", "glass" and so on, they all accept them. Down. This seems to have become an important self-entertainment and glorious tradition in the gay community. The gay community can always turn those nicknames that attack them or marks of shame, such as the pink pennant (the mark of comrades in Nazi concentration camps), into themselves Part of it, and as Mark put it, made these nicknames and marks "deserved of their names."
The homosexual group uses the dispelling and self-entertainment of the hostile language to make those originally bad and insulting words change their original meaning and become a special title unique to the homosexual group. For example, whether it is queen or faggot, they are both insults and ridicules of gays in English, but gay groups accept these nicknames and then modify their meanings to make these words for their own use. It is precisely using such a method of enduring the enemy's javelin that the gay community is always strong and entertaining to prove for themselves, and tell those prejudiced and discriminatory that their harsh attacks will not irritate them or give play to them. The expected result, the failure of the attack, instead hints at the problems of the discriminators themselves.
Beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, starting with the Stonewall Movement in the United States, pride is one of the most important elements in the gay movement. Whether it is those public figures who have come out to fight for power for the gay community, like Javier Milk, they always emphasize to their comrades that they must be proud of themselves. Nowadays, when we see some public figures come out, we will also mention our pride in being gay. For others, this sentence seems arrogant and inexplicable, but it is indeed the main contention in the long gay rights movement. The gay minority has always been suppressed or even oppressed by the so-called mainstream culture. Traditions have suffered far-reaching influences from the vicious destruction of the body and mind of comrades by culture. Both the Bible and traditional culture tell the world that comrades are sinful and destined to be punished. They are abnormal and abnormal. Under such long-term propaganda and deception, young comrades are surviving in fear and anxiety. Suffering even thought about suicide. At this time, self-identification is the most important step, and in this, the affirmation and pride of one's own identity is the main part. Accept yourself calmly, no longer be shrouded in shadows, and no longer live in the cabinet and fear. As Mark said to Joe at the end, “Stand up and speak up for yourself, a little proud!” Perhaps this kind of pride is a bit arrogant to others, but just like those long traditions of being abused and called nicknames, pride is the same. What the gay community strives hard for is a glorious tradition.
In the film, the National Trade Union hangs up when it hears that it is a gay group that wants to help them. We can imagine the attitude towards gays in the relatively conservative country in the UK in the 1980s. It is also incredible when the miners and gay groups finally come together and support each other. But if we look at this issue from another angle, it will be that things will eventually become like this, perhaps not so unimaginable. Whether it is the National Federation of Trade Unions or the miners in Welsh villages, some of them "have never seen a comrade in their lives". Because of their ignorance of this group and the distorted fixed impressions transmitted through the media or other people, preconceived prejudice against it And conflict. Therefore, when Mark led other friends to the village bar for the first time, doubt, unfriendliness, resistance and even disgust were inevitable. For two groups with completely different life backgrounds, mutual understanding is the most important first step. What's more, the miners are in contact with a group whose "social reputation" has always been poor.
In the movie, the women in the village are the first to accept the gay community, or because of their simplicity, they are more curious about the gay community rather than resist and prejudice. Most of the reasons why men have prejudice against gays are related to the roles that men play in the patriarchal society, and these men will from time to time have a passionate fantasy or fear that they think those gays will attack them. We can’t know why such self-competition exists, but in this quite comical situation, gays’ subversion of traditional male roles or temperament threatens other men to some extent. They see themselves as Violated, violence may occur at this time.
But just like Elizabeth in Jane Austen’s novels, when she and Mr. Darcy get along for a while and start to get to know him, the initial prejudice gradually dissipates. The same is true for the miners in the Welsh village. After a brief exchange with the gay community, they realized that those preconceived notions were wrong. The gays are not like they are from the media or from other people, or even himself. As imagined. Here, the screenwriter’s unique perspective puts the focus of the narrative on the elimination of prejudice after people understand each other, and the performance of the relationship between people is a very exciting part of the film.
In the movie of this group play, each and every vivid independent and beloved character is still portrayed. Perhaps it is the uniqueness and difference of each person that makes us realize that preconceived notions of others are wrong. No matter what group it is, there is a specific composition of people, and everyone has their own personality and characteristics, not everyone is the same, so the diversity of the group is the biggest feature. We can never use a few simple tags to define a group, let alone use it to define a person. Not understanding leads to prejudice, and if we stick to our prejudices, we will eventually cause unnecessary or even serious problems for ourselves and others.
2014 12.28 midnight
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