1. The long taste of daily life
The American drama "Search" is about the daily life of gays. When I watched the first season in 2014, I didn't like it. I do not like.
Now watching the second season, I like it very much. Although he is still living a plain life in the first season, I feel very warm and romantic.
I secretly feel that I am more and more like this kind of life-flow movies. It's not just the gay emotional projection that makes me more interested in this film, although it's also important that everyone watching the film, the sexual expectation is a strong connection he has with the film. But beyond that, is there anything else, like, has my aesthetic changed?
Legendary thrilling stories appeal to me, and now this bland story appeals to me too. In the plain life, those little waves are so real, relevant, and within reach. Compared with the magnificent epics and legends that are far away, I now cherish these so-called little sweets, little joys, little disputes, and Insufficient daily life. Wearing a tie, talking, gossiping in the cafe, sitting on the sofa hugging and watching TV......
I think the beauty of life lies in the little things, in every turn of the hour, not in some symbolic milestone in life.
Movies like "Looking", which was shot by "Weekend Time" director Andrew Haigh, and "Love at Sunset" director Richard Linklater, they are used to using A long shot, very focused on the moment. I agree with that.
In their works, it is always the capture of the moment, rather than frequent montages. Montage is jumpy and elliptical, while long shots are a kind of humanistic concern. It focuses on the here and now. The person who uses the long lens must be because he thinks that this moment is the place of beauty, it is worth recording, it is worth savoring.
Although nothing happened at this moment, once it is over, it is like a drop of water falling into the water, and it may not be worth mentioning in the memory. However, this is not the case, we experience our life in the ongoing tense, not in the past tense, when recalling, although we have little recollection of those ordinary days, but in the process of experiencing, we do feel this How a day makes us feel.
It is not unimportant, but very important, and it is this mundane life that makes up our lives. It is the main stream of our life. The beauty of life, the long taste, is in it.
The daily life cannot be as magnificent as a waterfall, but when countless days come together, it is a vast ocean. In this sea, there are countless dead days flickering, cherish every day and experience it seriously, then this sea is more magnificent than waterfalls, and it is a splendor.
Every day we live is worth savoring. That's maybe why I like ramble movies, like French ones, where maybe nothing happens and it's not worth mentioning.
Because life happens. this is life.
From this, I thought of artistic creation. Many authors have this kind of daily orientation, long shots, people looking forward to it, but there is really no story, plain and warm.
2. Movies and novels are different art media
I can watch movies and TV dramas, but reading novels is still unacceptable, because these are two artistic mediums. Think about it, watching gays wearing ties in novels is really not worth seeing. In novels, they should pay more attention to their dialogues and plots, because novels need more language and more atmosphere. Movies and TV only need images, not even lines. It doesn't matter if you wear a tie and tie for a minute in a movie. The two of them laugh casually. Because of the sense of substitution, I can project myself into it at any time and indulge in it, so I don't feel that the time is long. But fiction doesn't.
3. Movies and TV series deal with feelings at different rhythms
I didn't expect Kevin to be such a person, it really touched my heart. This American drama is so romantic at the front and so heart-wrenching at the back. The key is that the romance here is not deliberately paved, but slowly stewed by episodes of sweetness and fire, not the big scenes in the movie. The most important charm of the TV series is that the relationship between the characters can be simmered slowly, and there is no need to be impatient. And because of the limited time, the movie can only be fired quickly. I don't like this kind of rhythm. Emotional matters have always been simmered and cooked carefully.
Fourth, the emotional formula of abuse
20% getting along + 30% confession = 50% sweetness + 30% torture = 80% sweetness + 20% truth = 100% bitterness + 100% grief
5. Only yourself
Patrick understands but doesn't agree with Kevin's openness in the same way that heterosexuals can't identify with homosexuality. It is not that it is difficult to understand between groups, but that it is simply incomprehensible between people.
With the deepening of understanding, that person is not what you think it is, and you are only obsessed with him in your imagination. We always have to add a layer of our own imagination to our relationships, so as not to be disappointed.
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