Although the affirmative action and anti-discrimination movement has been going on for so many years, the presentation of this theme in film and television works is mostly monotonous and boring, with all kinds of nonsense and all kinds of artificiality. In fact, both inferiority due to discrimination and the resulting overcorrection are not normal mentality. In today's mainstream discourse (mainstream discourse in Europe and America), supporting comrades has become a somewhat excessive political correctness. When it comes to social occasions, gays who have no bright spots actually flaunt their identities and show off their "pride" (I really don't know what to be proud of).
If you take a closer look in gay circles, you will find that the proportion of good-looking people in gay people is the same as that in heterosexual people. The percentage of wretched evildoers in Gay is not at all lower than the greasy middle-aged uncles among straight men. Among Lesbians, there are quite a few Obasan who are nothing but masculine. The proportion of scum in Gay will never be smaller than that of straight men. There will never be fewer Losers among homosexuals than heterosexuals. According to the standard of "not underestimating one's self and not overdoing it", if a heterosexual does not need to emphasize that he is Straight, why does a homosexual have to indicate his gay identity? For example, if a vegetarian does not need to deliberately emphasize his vegetarian preference at the dinner table, then a meat-loving person should not make solemn statements everywhere because of his carnivorous nature. Sexual orientation, like a person's nationality, skin color, and language, is only a part of a person's identity, and other aspects are no different from other people. If a person lives his sexual orientation as the whole of his life, his life is undoubtedly a failure. The same goes for movie stories.
According to my strict standards, there are actually very few LGBT movies that have caught my eye. The film has only been shown in two cities in the United States, and New York, one of them, has only two art-house cinemas. Therefore, I didn't have any expectations for the movie "Call Me by Your Name" before entering the cinema (and judging from the various monsters, monsters, and strange costumes lined up in front of the theater, I guess there should be gays from all over New York gathered in the playroom) . And two hours later, the movie won me over with its power.
The protagonist of the story, Ellio, has a delicate face typical of southern Europeans.
In the summer of 1983, in the Italian countryside like a paradise, a boy fell in love with another boy. Boring green summer, lazy fields, orchards and sunshine, Ellio, a restless teenager, is developing and growing, and the handsome blond American Oliver is visiting at this time. In the six weeks of getting along day and night, from a little boredom to secret affection, from confession to temptation to love and separation. The story is as light as a cup of Longjing tea, slowly passing through trivialities, but it becomes a strong wine when it enters the throat.
At the beginning of the movie, Ellio says to Oliver, "What I do every day is to wait for the summer to pass." In the
summer, they fall in love with each other, "I love you, so you will call me by your name, and I will also use Call you by your own name, and let us be one."
And when the summer passed, they parted.
At the end of the movie, summer has turned into winter, and time has finally healed some heartache, but all previous efforts have been abandoned because of a phone call. In the snow, his loved one told him on the other end of the phone that he was getting married in the spring. So, the past summer will never come back and become a permanent memory.
From far to near, and from near to far.
There is no dramatic conflict in the movie, the plot is the standard model that everyone experiences in adolescence - that person's passing profile, that person's peculiar smell, that person's catchphrase, that person The feeling of an electric shock when the fingertips touch me... Then the two people test each other, secretly angry, as if every slightest breath can sense each other... Until the two are naked facing each other, Enjoy the joy of being together in the borrowed time, but don't know the time to separate has come.
In order to "de-comrade" the film, the film even completely downplayed the traces of the times and other resistances. The mark of the real success of the gay rights movement is that "gay" is no longer a special word, but is seen as a natural existence, just as the living environment described in this film. Ellio's parents are high-level intellectuals, they inherited a big country villa, and they know the emotional impulses of the two boys under their noses very well, but they don't want to break it. On a rainy day, the mother used the way of reading fairy tales to imply that her son should have the courage to take the initiative to confess. When parting was coming, the mother gave her son a few days to be alone with his beloved, thus leaving a lifetime of good memories for his son. When Oliver called in the winter, his mother warmly asked him and his son to chat on the phone alone, and he hung up the receiver knowingly. When Ellio was heartbroken over the parting of his lover, Dad told him, "I envy you because I didn't have the luck to meet such a good person who loved me when I was young. Remember this sadness and pain, Because it proves that you are alive. If you numb yourself so that you don't suffer, you are dead. In the end, no matter what your heartache is, remember that your father will always be by your side." There will be any sighs for the separation of the two lovers, but the tears are poked by the warm-hearted parents.
The only thing I'm doing is waiting for summer to pass.
The plot in the movie is the attraction between two young souls. As for the gender of these two souls, it really doesn't matter. Even if the movie is replaced with a story of a boy and a girl, it will not violate the harmony at all, but it will become cliché. The film does not talk about the persecution and discrimination against homosexuality in that era, but inadvertently said from Oliver's mouth at the end of the film, "You are lucky to have such a pair of parents. If it was my parents, they would definitely send me to do it. 'Correction'." The
director's lens is skillful, and the hints of various film languages are adequate, and the technical level is almost impeccable. The actor's performance is also very good (except that Oliver is a bit girly when he rides a bicycle). The movie unfolds slowly, no paragraph is too thick to be melted, but it has a lot of stamina. After watching it, it will arouse the audience's long-lasting thoughts. It may be about the feelings of the two boys in the movie, or it may be about that youth. .
I remember an old white aunt sitting next to me, who kept wiping tears at the end. "There's so much sadness and imperfection in life. But that's life, isn't it?" I tried to console her. "He's been lucky, he's got almost everything imaginable, good material conditions, wise and The parents who are caring, the lover who has the same heart, what else can he ask for? But at the end of the story, they still can't be together, it's still a pity. But this is life, isn't it?"
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