I know that this is a film that pays tribute to the legislation of special groups in Taiwan, and I know that the clip of this film is taken from Mr. Bai Xianyong's novel "The Evil Son". As an egalitarian, of course, I have always wanted to see it. Knowing that it is impossible for this kind of theme to be released in China, when I finally found the resources a few days ago, I was still full of expectations.
However, in the first ten minutes of opening the film, I was slightly disappointed: for me, who was slightly face-blind, I couldn't distinguish the two male protagonists at all, which made me a little crazy. What's more, based on my movie viewing experience, the movies that drive at the beginning are generally difficult to have any height and thinking, and most of them are classified as bad movies that attract people's attention.
After all, it is not easy to obtain resources, so I watched it patiently, and I soon found out the director's intention for this arrangement. It turned out that the car scene was just to subtly show that Zhang Jiahan was not interested in the opposite sex, so as to maintain the beauty of the story. Compared to directly portraying the image of a boy who covets another man, such a narrative is obviously more sophisticated.
Although there are many scenes of the two men in the film that make me feel extremely uncomfortable, the flaws do not hide their flaws, from the casting of actors Zhang Jiahan and Birdy (birdy) in their youth, to the beginnings and transitions of their emotional lines, from their understanding of the environment of the times to the special The unfriendly rendering of the group, the delicate expression of the eyes and expressions of the two people in the details... are all remarkable.
After watching the whole film, I feel like revisiting "The Gift of the Maggie". The two too young hearts are trying their best to treat each other in the way they think is right, even at the cost of destroying their most precious things. But I don't know what the other party really wants: Jiahan thinks that Birdy likes Banban, decides not to disturb Birdy's normal life, and chooses to let go and quit. And Birdy just took advantage of a girl's liking for him and performed it for the family to watch, so that the family would not have a deep-rooted love for him and could not extricate himself. The film has repeatedly shown that Taiwan's exclusion and suppression of special groups in the 1980s. In an era when men and women could not go to the same school, heterosexuality meant being expelled. It is conceivable that once the relationship between Zhang Jiahan and Birdy is discovered, the consequences may be It can't be carried by loving each other. The choice of the two at a young age, although I deeply regret it, is probably another kind of luck.
What I want me to say a little more is the portrayal of patriarchy in the film. At first, I felt that the family atmosphere of the two of them was depressing. When they were eating, the camera swept lightly—the huge cross in the house. Jiahan's father will suppress you if I want to suppress you. I have absolute right to speak when I earn money to support my family. Even in front of outsiders at the dinner table, I can't take care of the child's dignity. Birdy's domineering father is more than that. No less, it is not difficult to understand why the two of them are so sensitive, cautious and inferior to their own orientation and full of deep guilt. Under this heavy psychological burden, in that special era, in the involuntary Age, it is difficult for the two of them to break through the inherent boundaries when they are young.
Overall, a movie worthy of a four and a half star rating.
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