I watched this movie twice, the first time, I couldn't accept the weirdness of the heroine, indeed, a transvestite or transgender person even if she looks like Lee Pace is still weird, even uncomfortable , This also partly led to their tragedy. Most of the people consider themselves normal. They are unwilling to accept anything beyond their normal range. When they treat them, people are almost harsh. Tolerance is a luxury, and it is not in the demand of the general public. within the range.
This is a movie with many sensitive elements, transgender, homosexuality, discrimination and murder, but this is definitely not a curious movie, as long as you watch this movie seriously, you will find that the love it shows is gentle and beautiful , the male protagonist is a gentle and taciturn soldier. He called to ask the show dancer he met in the bar. He was a gentleman throughout the whole process. The thing that impressed her the most was that he used the way of asking ordinary girls to ask her out, and He gets along like a normal girl, and he respects her extraordinarily, like I don't think Barry is gay, he just met her and fell in love with her. As for the heroine, although she is a transgender who dances in gay bars, she has no dust on her body. Throughout the movie, her anxiety, shyness, and sadness are handled very well. She is like an ordinary little girl. , the small expressions under the emotions are very natural.
My favorite episode is the first time the male protagonist asks her out and tells others that this is my girlfriend. She hears it on the other end of the phone and is as happy as a child. Then there was the party, the slapstick, the kiss, everything came naturally, and everything after that was like a too beautiful dream, he helped him write the paper, they went out to play together, the spring was bright on the lake, she sang in a low voice, He finally showed himself in front of him as he really was, without the pretentiousness under the alien label that society put on them, that was love, and no one could deny it.
The bed scene in the movie was designed very interestingly, he touched down, but she stopped his hand, just like that time, she stood in front of the big fitting mirror and looked at her naked body, from face to chest to waist. Perfect, except for the crotch, she frowned when she saw it. This was a sign of her being different. She was more like a girl with a male lower body. These two pieces of flesh represented endless torture and humiliation. She leaned over herself, and their first sex, unusual, seemed acceptable again. So when he said she was going to spend tens of thousands of dollars for sex reassignment surgery, he was amazed at how much money could buy, he still couldn't understand the sadness of her seeing herself as a monster, on the other hand, he never regarded her Being a monster is unspoken comfort.
In the last half hour, the two comrades who were responsible for Barry's death were his two comrades. One, I don't want to say more, was a boy who was instigated by a mental disorder. The other, Fisher, was very complicated. I've seen it. In multiple articles analysing his abnormal obsession with Barry, many people can see that the film, intentionally or not, creates a very veiled homophobic closet. He was the one who brought Barry to the transgender club for the first time. He made out with a transgender dancer and touched something under her crotch. When Barry saw it, he yelled in disgust, but in fact, maybe he just most concerned about this. Later, the heroine said: Don't tell me that you are with your comrade-in-arms. I have seen him look at you in the nightclub. This is almost the screenwriter who is picking out this hidden dark line. A lot of people, this is a movie about borderline heterogeneity, but I think the love between the hero and heroine is very generous and natural. The only monster in the movie is Fisher. His love for Barry is cowardly, dark, disturbed and vicious. They will not be brave enough to say that they love him, he will only destroy him quietly. How sad.
Including me, now more and more people like to find deformed love in dark corners. We like to find love in perverts, which is like a kind of comfort and a kind of irony. Maybe it's because modern people increasingly don't believe in truth, goodness and beauty, or this series of things that exist in mainstream values. We know that cowardice and extremes exist in the corners of our human nature, and we place our hopes on people who are darker and darker than us. Looking for love, that which we long for but dare not reach out and touch, to demonstrate that there is love in human nature, even if it is just an infatuation wrapped in desire.
Returning to the main line, everyone still needs to look at the love line of the male and female protagonists, because it is really beautiful and sad. After reading it, you will have a new perspective on transgender people. The concept of love will be more free and closer to the mainstream values of the United States. It is really not A curious movie, it is a love movie that pursues freedom, equality and tolerance, nothing more.
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