I watched this after watching "I Killed My Mom". The family life of the protagonists in both films is very difficult, insecure and lacking in love.
Personally, I don't think this movie is about how gay men are. The immediate emotion of Maxi and Marty seems to me to be just one of the many emotions in the film. In fact, the whole movie revolves around Maxi.
Maxy's situation is very bad, his mother is really hurtful. I don't know where Maxy's father is, but he must be lacking in fatherly love. From what his mother said, it can be known that Maxie must have been bullied a lot since he was a child. It should have been his mother and Marty who protected him as a child. Now, his mother is incapable of taking care of him and even loses her mind and beats and scolds him. Marty also deliberately distanced herself from herself because of a movie.
Maxi is running back and forth in all kinds of bad situations, looking for a safe haven. But no matter what the situation is, there is a constant transition between hell and heaven. Like a roulette wheel.
Maternal love, friendship, love, dreams, reality... These terms seem to be compliments, but in life, we are always beaten by the good and comforted by the bad.
Although it is a new film, after all, I have only watched two of them, and I can't tell where the new one is. But I think Dolan should stick to that path: don't deliberately portray homosexuality, because that's the norm. He rubbed homosexuality into love and affection, and into seemingly miscellaneous quarrels. You will see and understand. Dolan is actually from a child's original family, living environment and the portrayal of various experiences to show a comrade. This is the first time I have seen such an angle, I hope to understand the direction is right haha.
All in all, I still like this one, but some of the plots are too protracted and not interesting.
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