When I watched it for the first time, I felt the comfortable orchestral music, the feeling of a lazy Argentine summer, so anxious that people could not wait to run into the movie and press their heads. The director expresses ambiguous, tentative, and all kinds of secret thoughts incisively and vividly, which seems to bring people back to the beauty of first love. But did director Marco Berg really only talk about the ambiguity for an hour and a half? Why is the movie called Hawaii? Wouldn't summer in Argentina be more thematic? What does it have to do with Hawaii? (Spoiler alert!)
With these doubts in mind, I read it again
Then I found that the director was talking about a story about people from different classes falling in love. He even downplayed the boundaries of the same sex. The same sex just made the ambiguity more ambiguous and more itchy. The theme is the love that breaks through the class, and it is also the director's discussion of social issues
First of all, if you don't understand the general environment, you may not feel the so-called class gap. Because in many European and American countries, the so-called 'working class' may earn more than the so-called middle-class white-collar workers. Argentina is a country with a very serious disparity between the rich and the poor. 30% of the national income is in the hands of one tenth, while the poorest 10% only own 1-2% of the total wealth. Why poor? Many ancestors are immigrants from various poor countries, the economy is not good, there is no job, inflation, housing shortage, many children can't afford to go to school, one generation is poor, one generation is poor, so a class is formed. And a middle-class white-collar worker who works in Buenos Aires has no problem earning $50,000 a year. If his ancestors have a house, then he will have nothing to worry about. The director thought about the social issues he wanted to express and conveyed it in the description of the glasses brother's novel.
Flat-headed dog-eyed little brother Martin, a Russian immigrant, his mother opened a newsstand, then his mother died and lived with his grandmother, and then his grandmother died and was swept out by his step-uncle. . . A proper Cinderella character! With a deeper understanding, he asked the glasses brother to work a day, and the salary of dozens of pesos, what concept? Inflation in Argentina has fluctuated and the world has heard that it may be better in 2013, 20 peso may be 2 dollars, and when I went there in 2018, 20 peso was less than 1 Australian dollar. . It can be said that in the wealthy area of Buenos Aires, you can't even buy a piece of bread.
Look at another male protagonist, Brother Glasses, all the details are pieced together. The father is a kind middle-class, willing to help the poor, and he did not particularly exclude others. His children played well with poor children. Later, his uncle helped him buy his father's house, and he worked in the Buenos Aires newspaper office. During the summer vacation, he came to his parents' old house for vacation and wrote novels. Although his house is dilapidated, compared to Martin, this is a rich and handsome character! (And the house in Recoleta, the richest area of Buenos Aires, is also a shabby feeling, experience it yourself)
Off topic. . . Said a lot of nonsense. . . back to topic
Ultimate question: Why is it called Hawaii? Which one of them has a crush on who first?
First look:
At the beginning, Martin wanted to work, and the spectacle brother’s attitude was polite and reserved enough to deal with it (the house belongs to my uncle, you can ask my uncle). Later, after Martin insisted, he replied that he would ask his uncle to answer tomorrow, which may feel small. Brother looks familiar or simple and handsome, and can't bear to directly refuse. After he recognized that the other party was a child, he made a 180-degree turn and invited others to come in and sit down. The ambiguous answer also turned into 'no problem'.
The next day, the glasses waited for Martin: From the previous day when I was topless and wearing shorts, I changed into more formal clothes. I was very nervous and anxious, and I kept staring at the window. The first time I saw it, I didn't know it at all! Why does this person feel like this, is there any conspiracy? You don't need to be so exaggerated when you see the color, I'm really afraid that the other party won't come (a young white-collar worker who works in the gay city of Buenos Aires, even if he is introverted and sullen, he needs to look like he has never seen a man before) Have you ever seen a pig run before eating pork?)
The glasses brother finds clothes for the other party in the bath, picks up the thread, smoothes the wrinkles on the clothes, and doesn't make people embarrassed to give them away (don't bother to bring the clothes, in fact, if you know the other party has not many clothes) Small details do very impressive
The glasses brother took the initiative to try: 1. The car is too hot, take off your clothes, we were playmates when we were young, so taking off clothes is normal, hahaha, pretending to be an innocent dog's eye Martin's reaction: I want to see it, I really want to see it, I can't see it , he's a straight guy who doesn't live in a small section hahahaha
2. Let the other party go into the water, change swimming trunks, and I can't help but peek
3. The swimming pool scene is the biggest turning point and foreshadowing. Martin is really very, very happy, elated, because the swimming pool is full of memories of their childhood! He tried to say something, and drew with a diving goggles pen (later I realized that what he was gesturing was the toy that the glasses brother finally saved him from). What was the guy with glasses doing? Distracted! I was confused by the nakedness of the handsome guy. I intuitively felt that I was not just trying to help the poor and growing small. I was fighting between heaven and man in my mind, and my heart was full of drama: No, they may not be gay, but they are also No, this kind of identity can't be expressed, it's still small! No, I'm going to code and settle down! His tangled drama started from the dog's eye Martin perspective: what blah blah blah did we have when we were young, what blah blah was a toy with two pineapples in it. . . The other party walked away without saying a word. . . Confused, did you say something wrong? After waiting for a long time, looking for the other party, and seeing the other party’s writing and dejected eyes, maybe I don’t matter in his eyes, he doesn’t even remember us when we were young, we are just an employer-employee relationship. . . Abuse!
4. Then all kinds of teasing, all kinds of temptations, all kinds of pretending to be innocent, acting as a straight man and having a small identity, it is very suitable for cover, any physical contact can be classified as 'friendship', this brother is really boring
Martin's Secret Love Perspective: There are only two clear ones, one is that he hides each other's photos, and the other is that he steals other people's clothes when they go out.
But there are more obscure ones. They had dinner soon after they met: Brother Spectacles: Look up and down and look at each other devouring each other. He doesn't seem to have eaten much for a few days, and then asks, where do you live? It may have been suspected that he was homeless. Martin's answer was: at his aunt's house. Why lie to each other? Can be understood as a man's self-esteem. But compared to working for the old lady before, he was grateful for the dry bread given to him and took it home. It seemed that he did not hide his poverty. In front of the person you like, you are even more reluctant to let the other party see that you are down and out.
Also, Martin remembers everything from their childhood to the smallest detail! I remember wearing a sweater with each other's name on it when I was a kid. . . But I don't remember my brothers and sisters at all! The explanation of the glasses is that because he is two years older than the other party, his brother and sister are 5 or 6 years older. . . Is it really just like this? If it's not a very good relationship, think about our elementary school classmates, if we don't see each other again after graduation, can we really remember them? Can you still remember how meticulous it was?
The biggest climax of a drama that can make people ambiguous to death: Martin took the initiative to seduce him, he took the initiative to kiss the other party, was pushed away by the glasses, and the glasses asked, are those paintings? That pissed Martin off.
Analyze the different entanglements that led to their ambiguity: Regarding Martin, his thoughts are relatively simple, because he is afraid that the other party is not gay, or that there is a gap in identity and class, and people will not look down on him. After seeing those paintings, it was obvious that the other party was a good friend. Combining with the other party's previous ambiguous performance, his tangled point was gone, so he chose to take the initiative.
As for glasses, as a writer who is boring and entangled in petty bourgeoisie, he has too many entanglements. First of all, he cares about each other, respects and cares about his friends when he was young, and is afraid that because of the identity gap, he will feel oppressed by confessing to the other party, even if the other party takes the initiative. Think that the other party is doing what he wants to repay him! Even his tangled point was what to do after they were together, the questions his brother asked him. . . It's just too much inner drama!
But the question he asked just hit the other side's sore spot. Because of their differences in identities, the other side's confession was also regarded as a purposeful flattery. . . Lenovo Martin may have always had a good impression of each other since he was a child, so this point is even more cruel
How can this situation be salvaged?
Hawaii became the biggest theme of the movie. The glasses carefully found the slideshow of their childhood, which said Honolulu Hawaii... Looking at each one, finally, the other party happily described their childhood memory in the swimming pool, two pineapples. The text of the movie, if you are a pineapple, and so am I, then you don't need to try, as long as you are together, that's enough. The reason why Hawaii is the theme, first of all, is the memory of childhood, let the glasses man leave Martin, if this is not his childhood, he may have sent people away like so many other homeless people. It was their childhood memories that made the glasses overcome all kinds of entanglements in their hearts. He understood the other party's mind and his own, so he finally chose to use the common childhood memories to save the other party. Hawaii, they were ignorant when they were young. They planted a seed of innocence. At that time, they had no class, no temptation, and no suspicion. As long as they were together, it was enough.
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