but! This is not gay! It's a story about a man who falls in love with a man who turns into a woman, and there's a difference. (Because I watched the English version without subtitles, some understandings may be biased, sorry!)
This movie is based on real events that happened in 1999. Even the names of the characters involved in the story are real. The male protagonist is Barry Winchell, a recruit in the Air Force, led by his roommate, went to the gay bar, fell in love at first sight with the heroine Calpernia, who appeared in the bar with her graceful figure, coquettish eyes and sexy dancing, and began to fall deeply into it. In the future exchanges, Barry realized his deep love and unbreakable feelings for Calpernia, and even under the huge pressure of the outside world, he resolutely decided to stay with her all the time. But Barry's happy love makes his roommate very jealous (his roommate Fisher suffers from mental illness and has homophobic tendencies), he keeps looking for trouble with Barry, sow discord, and reveal the news that Barry is GAY to unreasonable recruits , have the recruit report to the unit. The troops didn't want to make a statement and only conducted a secret investigation, which also put a lot of pressure on Barry, but it didn't affect his love with Calpernia. Finally one day, Barry's roommate got the confused recruit drunk and handed him a bat, implying that he killed Barry. The young, arrogant and ignorant recruit really did it. He brutally smashed the sleeping Barry's head. Barry died because of the ineffective rescue. A 22-year-old fresh life was obliterated by prejudice and jealousy. .
The flashback method used in the movie tells us in the protagonist's narration at the beginning: "What you see will be a tragedy." But I don't know that the tragedy comes too suddenly, only when you are ready to watch them When the two happy endings came to an abrupt end, Barry was beaten to death by the new minion. It's like you're watching a man with an incomplete body about to finish the run, but he trips over a nail and falls over. You don't have time to get angry about who put the nail there, you can only stand there in astonishment, no The disabled hand covers the open mouth, overwhelmed and helpless.
Before high school, my attitude towards homosexuality and transgender people was a firm no, because many people said that that was the main cause of AIDS, that they had psychological problems, that they were abnormal. Not only that, but I also sneered at the people around me who instilled this knowledge, and decided not to accompany them; with the deepening of knowledge and openness of mind, as well as the understanding of social inclusion, I came into contact with some actual audio-visual materials (you guessed it). What information), found that really they are just different from us, they are just different from our needs in terms of gender selection, like your mom likes celery and you don’t like your dad likes You don't like eating pig ears, just like your brother likes to play football, you like basketball, like your sister likes to listen to music, and you like to watch movies, just like your brother likes it. . . etc.
In his book "The Silent Majority", Wang Xiaobo mentioned his research on Chinese gay men. He said that the number of gay men in China is about 1% of our population. It seems that the proportion is not large, but we The country's population base is large, and at the same time, this data is only based on the part of the group that is willing to publicly declare that they are gay; it is conceivable that due to long-term repression and incomprehension, they may suffer from ordinary people who cannot perceive it. The most important thing is that they have no place to vent. They are like hedgehogs, always vigilant about the harm done to them by the people around them, and at the same time pretending to like the opposite sex just like ordinary people, this is just as incredible as we generally like the same sex. .
In 2014, all states in the United States passed the same-sex marriage bill. That night, the White House was illuminated with rainbow neon lights (the symbol of homosexuality is the rainbow flag), which symbolized this colorful world and symbolized that it can accommodate diversity. society started a new process. I hope this rainbow, the rainbow after the rain, will not slowly disappear with time, but I hope it will disappear, because I hope that there will be no distinction between homosexuality in society in the future, and there will only be everyone's recognition of social diversity and accept.
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