This film is Brazil's most controversial gay film, the director crosses blood and sexuality, and tells the love between a pair of brothers. I admire the director's unabashed attitude, I admire the director's naked and frank courage, and I understand the director's interpretation of love: even homosexuality, even incest, even taboos, can't cover up the essence of love is love. Even without worldly acknowledgment, the affection that develops between older brother Francisco and younger brother Thomas is love, not sin.
Brother Francisco and Thomas (Rafael Cardoso), who is 6 years younger than him, are half-brothers. As he grew older, Thomas increasingly admired Francisco, and Francisco took great care of Thomas. Growing up, Francisco and Thomas became lovers...
This film is quite romantic and beautiful. Both the plot and the pictures are very moving and beautiful: soft light, warm colors, a cute little boy, a handsome man, tolerant and loving parents, a living environment with birds and flowers, friendly interpersonal relationships Relationships... all of this makes the film feel like a modern fairy tale, too good to be true, too good to be true.
The emotional progress of brother Francisco and brother Thomas, from a happy and carefree childhood to a perfect union in adulthood, has never experienced the guidance or obstruction of others, including close relatives. Many things in the world are hard to explain, hard to understand, and hard to define what is good and what is bad. The director (he is also a screenwriter) may use this modern fairy tale to question the audience, why is it evil? What is sin? Who will define it? How to define it? If in your eyes, homosexuality and brotherhood are not considered wrong, taboo, or sinful in your eyes, then the union of brother Francisco and brother Thomas is not very correct and normal. Is something wrong?
I saw in this film the director's view on life and his attitude towards life, he said through Thomas: "A few months later, when Pedro (Francesco's father) died, I realized that there was no What can last forever, even if Francisco told me..." "15 years later, when my mother also passed away, I am convinced that the permanence of things does not depend on our will, with greater and greater Mysterious and intangible things are left and right, it determines our life calendar...it doesn't make any sense, and then ask why she disappeared...only love and miss are left..."
Social ethics do not allow older brothers and younger brothers Love each other, but as Thomas said, some things happen, not by our will, but by some unspeakable mysterious force, which we call destiny, destiny. In the face of the advent of love, people often say that I am destined to love you, and you are my destiny. And Francisco is Thomas' destiny, and Thomas is Francesco's destiny. Faced with such a fate that will suffer from secular vision or not be understood and recognized, what should we do? In fact, in the film, Thomas Jr. has already said the choice he will make when he grows up: "People say that the happiest people are those who don't need to make history. Those who make history only value the struggle with fate, and It's a perpetual confrontation." So, facing his destiny, Thomas would not flee or fight, but would accept it and be a happy person.
In my opinion, this film is like a mirror in which the audience can see how they see the world. Our eyes, in fact, should see the essence through the appearance. What is the nature of the world? It depends on what kind of world you want to live in. If we judge with our minds from the very beginning, believe that homosexuality is evil, and brotherly love is even more sin, and stand on the moral high ground to criticize, abuse, and even violently deal with it, then what we do will be punished by us In the eyes of those who regard it as sin, is it also regarded as evil, as sin? Love can cover all faults, and there will be no desert in life with love. The world should be filled with love and not sin and evil. Those feelings aroused by love and deeds for love should be understood and recognized by the world. Just like the world in the film, it is so beautiful, so moving, and makes people yearn for it.
(Original platform brief book, author: Flying Sheep 11)
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