Ron probably didn't think that would be the last time he and Raymond would see each other.
Raymond's death is played out in a novel way in the film. Ron stood in the room full of butterflies, the light and shadow flickered, and the sound of hundreds of butterflies flapping their wings suddenly stopped when the camera turned to Raymond. Butterflies represent reincarnation and transformation. At that moment, the film was silent without a trace of sound, Raymond's face brushed off, the female doctor woke up, and Raymond's life died quietly at that moment.
Raymond is also the epitome of thousands of same-sex AIDS patients, who are so small that no one notices, their lives are disappearing without sufficient social care. They live at the bottom of society, but they are also burdened with discrimination and stereotypes from society. Not all same-sex AIDS patients are born in a bad environment. Raymond from a middle-to-high-productive family, his father who later reorganized the family, can't even hide his disgust for his transgender son, if he has a little more understanding of love and Care, maybe Raymond will have a different ending. "God, when I see you, I want to be a beautiful angel," Ramon said in front of the mirror, holding a lady's pajamas, and he cried.
Discrimination and stereotypes are ubiquitous in the film. The worker whose leg was crushed at the beginning of the film was mocked as just a stupid Mexican black worker, and the attitude of Raymond's biological father towards his own transgender son was reflected later. This atmosphere changes as the film progresses. From the beginning, the homophobic hero Ron became annoyed when he heard the AIDS diagnosis and angrily defended that he was not a goddamn gay, to later Ron forced his old homophobic friend to shake hands with Raymond in the supermarket. At the end of the film, Ron, who used to discriminate against homosexuality, even gave Raymond a full hug. Raymond smiled at that moment, "thank you," she said. Her face was unprecedentedly relieved.
Ron, an AIDS patient, was battling a corrupt FDA in his final days.
"Do you miss those normal lives..." Ron asked the female doctor while drinking a beer. "How I want to go back...a cold beer, ride a bull again, dance with my woman...I want to have a baby. After all, I only have one life to live, don't I. How I sometimes wish I was someone else And sometimes it feels like I'm fighting for a life that I don't have the chance to enjoy...I hope it's all worthwhile." Ron recounted slowly, his tone as if speaking of a long story. "Of course it has value." The female doctor looked at him and smiled, then leaned on his shoulder. Ron leaned his face in, kissing her forehead until it was over. At the end of the plot, the response to their relationship is also restrained: the female doctor saw with red eyes that the painting of Ron's mother before her death was hanging crookedly, she stared for a long time and then carefully straightened it. It's not that Ron has no feelings for female doctors, but as an AIDS patient, he knows where he is and also knows that he will not live long. This emotional sacrifice is just like what Raymond did before his death, putting on a man's formal suit and whispering in front of his homophobic father, just to get money to help Ron. They are AIDS patients, and they are also emotional people. Like you and me, they have loved, suffered, and should not be cared about. Coughing up blood beside the bed, Raymond said sadly "I Don't wanna die" with a strong desire to survive, dragging the audience back to that desperate dying edge.
The acting skills of the two leading actors, Matthew and Leto, are all online. As mentioned earlier, the way of showing death in the film is also very novel. Butterflies represent reincarnation and transformation, and the clowns that frequently appear in the film also have a meaning behind them. For example, the bullfighting clown at the beginning of the film, his main job is to distract the bull when the bullfight is in danger, and to provide an alternative target attack for the bull. As Ron stood up in the battle between AIDS patients and the FDA in the 1980s.
"Sometimes I feel I'm fighting for a life I just ain't got the time to live", a film based on a true story, left behind Ron Woodruff's uninhibited soul that was not taken away by his illness.
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