I watched "Burning Coins in Flames" twice, and I felt the same as I first saw it. (In addition, even if it is a movie that I like, it is difficult to do it twice, just because I want to keep the pure feeling when I first saw it), it is still the same. At present, I have watched the top three gay films with sexual tension. The reason why I want to say the top three is because I want to give myself some retreat. Maybe I can see CPs with stronger sexual tension in the future.
The storyline of this movie is actually very simple. It can be summed up in one sentence. Two highly handsome violent gangsters rob a bank cash machine. .
In fact, this is just a very ordinary crime film with violent aesthetics. If thrown in the same type of film, it will be submerged in the ocean.
However, the classic of this film lies not in the crime theme, but in the lingering emotion between the two male protagonists.
This is an unbearable sense of oppression and persecution, and this emotion is not innate. It only appears when examining classical civilization—Christian culture with modern civilization.
I often wonder, when we criticize the feudal system or Christian civilization for suppressing human nature, can the ancients who put themselves in the shoes feel that their freedom has been harmed?
Personally, I don't think they would know, because the feudal bad habits that are inconceivable to us today are a kind of custom for them, a foundation for living and living, which has long been dissolved in the blood. .
Only when the "other", that is, the foreign culture (the so-called advanced civilization) invades, can we gain insight into the backwardness of the ancient civilization.
Just like the Qing Dynasty, the last feudal dynasty in China and the peak of the hierarchy, even in the period of the Opium War, the world situation had already turned upside down, but the Chinese people at that time still claimed to be the celestial kingdom and never doubted their own civilization until the collapse of the empire. , the new-style intellectuals who studied abroad saw the prosperity of Europe, and finally began to destroy the Confucian civilization that spanned the land of China for two thousand years.
So the sense of oppression actually comes from the gap between ideal and reality, that is, the modern ideal is freedom and equality, while the reality is not freedom and inequality, not to mention the foundation of ancient feudal culture is the hierarchy. .
The feeling of depression in the movie "Burning Coins" also comes from the lack of freedom of human nature. Angel is a devout Catholic who believes in God. The guilt culture of Christianity makes him dare not face up to his feelings with Naylor. He holds the cross on his chest and bows to Jesus Christ. In the next scene, Angel puts a pistol on the ground. In the mouth of a strange man, kneel down and give him oral sex.
The director uses the editing method of parallel montage to show the two people's involuntary depression to the fullest. There are many similar parallel montage scenes in the movie, such as when Naylor has crazy sex with a prostitute, while Angel self-mutilates on the other side. These extremely tense shots are like raging flames, scorching the souls of the audience, forcing us to break free from the shackles of feudalism and seek freedom.
One more thing, I don't think I can tell the difference between Europeans and Naylor in the movie. I think he is very handsome. Later, when I searched for his information, I found out that I watched three of his movies, but I actually had one of them. Did not recognize it.
View more about Burnt Money reviews
