Love is not to see the other's flaws and unbearable, but to fall in love with the other's flaws and unbearable.
Very avant-garde "queer" movie, I refused to accept cross-species love when I watched it and within half an hour of watching it.
I suddenly realized that I enjoyed watching Disney's "Beauty and the Beast", Emma Watson is so beautiful, Stevens is so handsome, so crisp, so loving. But what is the difference between the two? Love is born between humans and non-human beings.
From the perspective of character setting, the aphasia cleaners at the bottom of the society, the gay artists in the closet, and the lower-class species, these marginal characters of the society band together to fight against the upper classes of society.
The whole film is interesting in whether the murlocs have human nature? What is the standard of judgment?
Dr. Hoffstetler's criteria are listening to music, being emotional, and being able to communicate. The half-merman was accepted not because of "love", but because in him, human beings found their own shadow. It can be seen that, after all, the judgment is based on human viewpoints, which is the so-called anthropocentric. It can be criticized that the director cannot escape the disdain of conservatives after all, and he still uses the subjectivity of "people" as the standard to judge "the other". But in counter-attack, human beings creating creators are an act of "subjectivity", because in the species system, humans are the subject, and other species are "others", unless the "others" are allowed to create, then the role will be are interchangeable.
Let's talk about love. It seems that animal love is easily touted as pure love, true love. Please, are you kidding me?
Do murlocs love Elisa? They don't love, they just have similar and marginalized identity characteristics (one is marginalized by society and cannot speak, and the other is inferior from where they appear), and seems to see their own shadow in each other, so they feel pity for each other and hug each other for warmth. elisa himself said: "When he looks at me, he does not know how I am incomplete. He sees me as I am." It can be seen that elisa also clearly knows that he does not know that he is a person in human society. A marginal person with flaws, all he sees is me, a purely biological me without the distinction between the good and the bad of human society. Therefore, it cannot be said that the half-murlocs accept and fall in love with elisa's incompleteness and marginality.
The whole film finally uses "love" to sublimate and attempt to beautify the image of "the other", isn't it a slap in the face? If it is a romantic love story, it is true, it is only a very secular politically correct love, and it is not up to the spiritual height of pure love.
In my view of love, love is not to see the other's flaws and unbearableness, but to fall in love with the other's flaws and unbearableness.
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