Scott and Mike, two male prostitutes. The former is the mayor's son who ran away from home, and the latter is a homeless tramp. They have known each other for 4 years. Mike suffers from syncope. Scott will take care of Mike, take him to a safe place when he is asleep, and even hold him until he wakes up. Scott would accompany Mike to find his mother, to Idaho, to Seattle, and even Italy. But instead of finding a mother for Mike on this trip, he found a wife for Scott. Scott left Mike and took his Italian girl without looking back. He returned to his upper class, took off his torn jeans and changed into a three-piece suit. And Mike is still a homeless tramp, a male prostitute who sells his flesh to survive, will still faint on the highways of Idaho, be stolen and picked up again, and what awaits him is an uncertain fate.
Does Scott love Mike? It's safe to say that I don't love.
Does Mike love Scott? It can only be said that he is very attached to Scott.
Look at the following paragraphs-
Fragment 1:
Mike originally didn't want to rob the rock band with Bob and the others. The reason for his refusal turned out to be: I don't participate in this crazy operation, I can rely on Scott's money.
Scott's face changed at this moment. Obviously he realized what Mike's blurted words meant. And he doesn't like this.
As soon as Scott persuaded (there are only two sentences: I want to make a joke, I can’t make this joke alone), Mike immediately changed his mind: I was going to go, just for fun-as long as it was Scott let When he went, he immediately agreed, even though he also knew that Scott's joke could only be crazier.
Fragment 2:
Mike's conversation with Scott at the campfire...
--"I don't feel like that I can be close to you, I know we are close, right now we are close, but I mean, you know …"
--"how close, I mean…"
--I don't know, whatever.
--what?
--what I mean to you?
--what you mean to me? Mike, you are my best friend.
--I know that I we are best friends...we are Friends Good, that's ... that's Good to BE A Good Thing.
-SO ...
-SO the I the Just ... that's the ok, WE CAN BE Friends.
--I only have have Sex with Guys for Money.
--yeah, the I know.
- -and two guys can't love each other.
--yeah, well, I don' t know, I mean…I mean, for me, I can love someone even if I, even wasn't paid for it…I love you and...you don't pay me...
--Mike...
--I really wanna kiss you, man... Well goodnight, man... I love you though... You know that... I do love you.
It is not difficult to see from here that Mike is trying hard to confess to Scott, And Scott has been avoiding (-what you mean to me? Mike, you are my best friend; I only have sex with guys for money. and two guys can't love each other.). At the end, Mike shrank into a ball, looking very fragile, but stubbornly said "I do love you" to Scott. In the face of Mike like this, all Scott can give him is a hug, no kiss.
Fragment 3:
In Italy, when Scott was with that girl, Mike was irritable; when the girl was curled up under a tree and crying because of happiness, Mike said, I understand how you feel. When Scott left, he said to Mike, I'm sorry, I'm sorry you didn't find your Mum. He could not respond to Mike's feelings for him, but he was not sorry for it. He just regretted that Mike could not find his mother. And Mike's look can only be described as despair. After that, Scott took the girl and walked away without looking back, and Mike watched the taxi go further and further away.
...
Some people say that Mike should be regarded as loving for Scott. I think this is not so much love as it is a kind of "fowl complex."
Birds that have just come out of their shells regard the moving things they see at first as their mothers.
Mike was born in a desperate family: his mother was frustrated and killed and was put in a lunatic asylum. His father was also his elder brother. He lived in the lunatic asylum with his mother not long after he was born, and they couldn’t find them after his mother left. Until then, his father (brother) still didn't know how to deal with their relationship... His life was like a highway on the Idaho Wilderness. He didn't know where to lead, giving people a strong sense of uncertainty. And insecurity.
Then Scott appeared. Scott feels confident and sharp, as if there is nothing he can't handle in the world, which makes him almost the soul of the group of homeless people-but the most important thing is that he will take care of Mike, he is the group The only person among the tramp who can put on his coat after Mike fainted and hold him until he wakes up is the only one who can accompany him all over the world to find family members.
If Mike like this met Scott like this, it is inevitable to be attached to him. As for whether this can be regarded as love, I'm not sure.
At least this is not love in the usual sense.
Let's analyze Scott again.
As the mayor’s son, he seemed to have a rather depressing childhood, as he said: “He (his father) always thought he was better than everyone else, including his son me. When I thought I was his son You just want to vomit. You have to be as good as him, lift as high as him, throw as far away, and earn as much money as him, otherwise you have to listen to him. Dad doesn’t understand that I’m just a child, he thinks I am Lose his face..." So, he ran away from home and was among a group of homeless people.
He was respected among this group of homeless people. Only he dared to make jokes with Bob. Bob said that he was a big-time figure, but he couldn't do anything about him. He called Bob My real father, and Bob really regarded him as a son, and thought that after he inherited the inheritance, he would let them-at least Bob himself-escape the sea of suffering. When the police went to their hotel to find Bob, Jane's first reaction was not to tell Bob but to ask Scott: They are going to search here and let them in?
The self-esteem lost in front of his father was doubled back among the homeless, but this was not enough. He wanted to continue to prove his ability. He went to see his dad in the most decadent appearance, and said to him: When the time comes, I will completely reform.
It feels that his "degeneration" and "reform" were carefully planned, with only one purpose: revenge on his father. Those tramps are just tools for him, whether it is Mike or Bob.
His care for Mike cannot be said to be without real care and sympathy, but it is more about satisfying his "needs needed by others". So he knew that Mike's feelings for him could still leave him without looking back, and when he saw Mike who was sleeping on the side of the road in the car, he just turned his eyes away. A detail comes to mind: When Scott left Mike, he opened a letter in the taxi, and it was estimated that it was the news of his father's death. There was a smile at the corner of his mouth—he was victorious. Maybe that innocent country girl was just an excuse for him to leave Mike and the tramps.
As for Bob, he kept saying "I love you more than my biological father" (which may not be a lie, because he obviously has a grudge against his biological father), but when he was a homeless man, he only teased Bob. In this way, he was satisfied; when he wore a three-piece suit to the banquet, he treated Bob who greeted him warmly and said: "Don't come near me!" That night, this old homeless man who made a living from theft and robbery , The villain Bob, who was hunted down by the police, died of sadness.
At the funerals of his two fathers, there was a serious and indifferent eulogy from the upper class on one side, and the frantic carnival of homeless people on the other. Scott stood on the upper class side, frowning at the homeless people, not knowing what he was thinking. Mike looked at him with condemnation in his eyes; his wife watched him quietly from the side—she also looked at him quietly when he drove Bob away at the banquet—questioning? condemn? fear? What she fell in love with was the little bastard who accompanied her friends all over the world looking for relatives. If that guy suddenly turned into a cold and hypocritical politician, what would she do?
But no one can blame Scott. This is his way of life. In the scene where Bob was driven away at the banquet, to the audience who understands their past relationship, we can see that he is cold and terribly cold. For the upper-class people present, this only proves his determination to reform and rehabilitate-to simply break with his depraved past, what courage is this! They will not understand the feelings of the old tramp, they will only have admiration for the young mayor. This will undoubtedly earn enough impression points for his future political career.
I said earlier that his "degeneration" and "reform" were carefully planned. He used the upper-class thinking to prove his Scott's ability. It may be said that he has never really "fallen", and he and Mike have never been in the same world. He has always been constrained by the upper class, and the people around him are his tools and victims. He is just living his life in his own way.
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