Without any excitement, the recent commotion around me allowed me to watch the film in peace for two and a half hours without feeling long at all. Clean pictures, handsome actors, ingenious details, steady rhythm, and forbearance atmosphere, everything seems to be just right, telling an uncomplicated story into a delicate movie.
When the movie was about to end, I secretly thought that there would be a happy ending, giving people hope and turning the pain of growing into sweet tears. Tong finally put the puppet's nose into Mew's hands, so that the puppet, which had been damaged for many years, was complete and smooth. Tong gave Mew a complete love, and then the two lived happily. I hope for a happy ending. In other words, the movie has a happy ending, but it is not the happy ending I want. After all, my understanding of "love" is still a little superficial. Deep down, I hope that they will be together in the end, be with love, and can't. Together, there is always a little regret. "We still don't want to be together anymore, but that's not to say, I don't love you." We should admit that many people will be moved by this sentence, and tears begin to wet their eyes. Perhaps, this is what the 26-year-old director wants to tell us in the film, in the process of growing up, in addition to love, there are also responsibilities.
Looking back, what kind of story does the movie tell? A pair of neighbors who were good childhood friends separated because they moved. Years later, they reunited on the street. Facing the anguish of their growth and life and the emotional restlessness of adolescence, they developed a hazy emotional bud that they were not quite sure about. Then, under some external pressure, they gradually cut off contact, and each continued to face the emptiness and loneliness of growing up. It was not until the end that they finally understood each other's feelings. For the first time, they used their still immature shoulders. Carrying a heavy feeling about the incomparably cherished years of growth, then turned around, waved to the youth who continued to fly forward, and said goodbye.
In my opinion, the plot is very simple and clear, because I have stripped off all the branch lines, and what the main line wants to tell you is only about growth, not love, responsibility, and other too many complicated things. Such stories, such emotions, are interpreted in this way because we are a little confused, a little confused, and a little scared about growing up in those fleeting years. Yes, in the face of the growing pain that cannot be broken free, we will be uncertain about everything, be cautious about everything, and be at a loss for all external disturbances. The pain of growing up can always be easily magnified a thousand times, and the sadness of youth always strikes like this year after year.
Don't think about what the director is trying to tell you, just think about what you see, the picture or the emotion. Tong took the initiative to kiss Mew, after Mew publicly sang the love song written specifically for Tong. Mew asked Tong how it felt, and Mew had a shy look on his face, expecting an answer. Tong didn't answer right away, he smiled at Mew, took Mew's shoulders, then stroked Mew's hair, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, with a little pride and a little sweetness, and then said something as if he was sure of something. indescribable." Mew was smiling the whole time, with a satisfied smile. They kissed like that, and it all went smoothly. A slightly immature, green, and lingering kiss, can it confirm the surging love in their hearts? Would a kiss be the best answer?
This is the sweetest scene in the movie, their kiss is so pure and innocent, their inner loneliness finally finds the other half to communicate with, well, let the time stop here. Next, something is always such a coincidence, and this scene is seen by Tong's mother. The sweetness and preciousness may lie in its shortness. When Mew stroked his lips in the car and reminisced about the kiss, and his heart was full of joy, how could he have thought that tomorrow, it would be another kind of weather, sunny and cloudy, without any hints? . Same-sex love is such a taboo love in the world of parenting, not to mention Tong's mother who lost a daughter, so she went to Mew, straight to the point, hard-hearted and sincere. Mew said "we are just ordinary friends", and Tong's mother finally left a sentence "one day, you will understand".
One day, you will understand. Any problem, one day, we will understand. But, when we finally understand, will it be too late or irreversible. How fragile is the phrase "one kiss for love". In the world of Tong and Mew, each other's feelings are pure, they like to be with each other, like to talk to each other, that's all. If, without any external intervention, how could their emotions be in a state of struggle, and how could their troubles be piled up? The adult world likes to overcomplicate simple things, and they blame you for doing anything without thinking about the consequences.
When Tong's mother asked "how good are you", Mew said "we are just normal friends". In another shot, when Tong's friend asked "Are you GAY?" Tong did not answer, and later, Tong said to Ah Ying (the girl who had a crush on Mew) "I have been asking myself whether I am really". Mew and Tong, neither of them answered this relationship directly, but this relationship is so real.
They are forced to think amidst the rumours of others, and then jump into emotional quagmire to struggle each other. Mew finds himself losing motivation to sing, and the band is forced to switch vocals; Tong spends the night hanging out with some friends, numbing himself. When the two met on the street again, Mew hurriedly turned into a nearby alley with his head down, while Tong kept watching Mew's back, stopped for a moment when passing the alley, and then moved forward. At this point, Mew stopped and looked back a little hesitantly. Tong also stopped and walked back hesitantly, looking around the alley. They are hesitating, but their hearts are full of expectations. Unfortunately, no one knows that each other once stayed for each other.
"Later we never met, as if we were avoiding a certain place, and we all walked in a hurry in the crowd, for fear of recognizing each other accidentally." (Pin Guan "Later Us") lyrics like this , it should be sung for such an encounter. Simple emotions are complicated, and the external pressure becomes heavy. Can they cling to the pure sky in their hearts, and how can their thin shoulders be able to bear it? They are just afraid of loneliness, want to find a fellow, comfort each other, that's all.
The two were lying on the bed, and Mew told Tong that he was "so lonely and scared". "I sometimes wonder, if we really love someone, can we accept this kind of thing? If one day, he dies. Parting is a part of life, we all know, we really Can we let it go? We really love someone and are not afraid of him leaving me? Also, we have to accept that no matter where we are, the person we love is no longer around, so that's loneliness, I'm all like this It's been five years, why is our world like this, don't know what the rest of our days are like." Mew has been lonely, since Mamma passed away, like EI said "Why do you always think other people Don't care about you?" This night, Mew found someone to talk to, he told Tong about the loneliness in his heart, Tong took Mew's shoulders for the first time, and the two hugged each other head to head. Maybe this night, they found themselves finding the same kind, burning loneliness in each other's loneliness.
So, what is Tong's loneliness? In childhood, the loss of my sister during the trip made the family tend to collapse. The father was immersed in self-blame and drinking too much, while the mother had to be strong to support the whole family. In such a depressing environment, no one cared about his inner thoughts. Because of the move, he had to be separated from his childhood friend, and there was one less person to talk to. His thoughts and confusions could only be hidden in his heart. He became more and more silent and cautious. He hoped that his sister would come back, that his father would stop drinking too much, and everything would return to the past, but these were not within his control. All he can do is not to make his mother angry, and obey her mother's words, including doing things he doesn't like. Sister and Mew, two people who can talk, are not around. His loneliness gradually accumulates in his father's alcoholism, his mother's strength, and his longing for his sister.
Looking back and re-watching the reunion scene of Tong and Mew on the street, I found that Mew was active from beginning to end. Seeing the other person first, nodding and smiling, speaking first, asking for his mobile phone number first, and even more reluctant to leave. Mew's concentration when entering Tong's phone number seems to be afraid of leaving Tong again, and it will go by for years. All the hints, the director has already laid the groundwork here.
Some people say that if Tong and Mew hadn't reunited because of their separation, the two of them would have no story. It is true that if Mew hadn't had five years of loneliness, and had five years of loneliness, recalling every bit of his childhood with Tong, then he wouldn't have been so excited, excited, and nostalgic when he reunited with Tong. . The thickness of some emotions, you didn't know, only when the door was touched and opened, you knew that it was already choppy. If there is no separation, there may only be friendship between them, plus a little family affection; and after separation, the emotion after their reunion is the contradiction and synthesis of friendship, family affection and love.
In front of the Christmas tree, Tong held two puppets, a man and a woman, and said to his mother, "I'm afraid that if I don't hang up well, you will be angry." Tong's mother finally understood that "make up your own mind." The puppets were hung on the tree, and the mother and son smiled at each other and finally let go; on Christmas Eve, Ah Zhun's "Treasure Game" helped Tong's father to come out of the shadow of self-blame, "We all made mistakes because of love, fortunately, It's all for the people we love, isn't it? Life always gives us plenty of opportunities to start over, correct the mistakes we've made, and hope you can always keep this true love."; Christmas Eve, Mew in the Piazza The love song written for Tong was sung again. Tong rushed to the scene with a smile on his face. The two were finally able to face each other's feelings calmly. The red puppet nose was finally inserted in the vacant position after many years. Smiling and weeping, muttering "thank you" to herself. "Puppet Dolls", "Treasure Game" and "Music Teaser", each carefully arranged foreshadowing was answered one by one at the end. These clues that run through the film looming and echoing each other make the whole story fuller, and I have to admire the director for his attention to detail. of good diligence.
"We still don't want to be together anymore, but that's not to say, I don't love you." When Tong said the first half of the sentence, the smile that Mew had always put on his face disappeared, but it bloomed again immediately, and Tong said the next half sentence. Finally, the emotional struggle came to an end, and each other could correctly examine and understand each other. At the climax of the film, it is not difficult to see the ambition that the director wants to express, the family encounter, the growth of the two teenagers, the self-sexual orientation and the feelings for each other are intertwined, and candidly explore the deep-seated issues about the self-sexual orientation of the teenager in the process of growing up .
The last shot of the film was fixed on the puppet with a crooked nose. The relationship between Tong and Mew, Tong and Donut, Mew and Ah Ying, Ah Zhun and Tong's family, Mew and EI, etc., are all calm and relieved without the director's trace. An adolescent boy's budding love story ends with a sincere and infinitely sad word. The ending may be happy, but it's not what I want.
Finally, I wrote something in peace, about "Love of Siam", about the growth story of two boys. The last thing I want to say is just one sentence, and only one sentence: no one's future, isn't it?
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