This film is based on Christopher Isherwood’s novel of the same name. The novel was born in the early 1960s, which was full of restlessness, rebellion, and restlessness. At a time when everyone in the world was at risk for the missile crisis, all of George’s They are all filled with unforgettable thoughts about their lovers, and because of this, this quiet and sad novel was also called "the most beautiful gay literature"
in that particular era. In that unpredictable ten years, not only Hippies, the turbulent political situation, and those queer who used to be on the dark side of society also began to take to the streets on a large scale for the first time, expressing their sexual orientation, denouncing their right to love and marry, and then emerge such as Ha For fighters like Vermeer, although the novel does not describe this movement (it only alludes to a different group of homosexuals in George's conversation about ethnic minorities), the protagonist George is also a tragic character. Twenty years after the novel was published, Tom Ford, who was twenty years old, read the book. He is still in the ignorant period and he still can’t fully understand the more than ten years of "same-sex love" in the book. His words still touched him, as Ford himself said: “I already understood that I was a comrade, but I didn’t have a lover, and I didn’t publicly promote it. It happened that I saw this book at that time. Novels, the depression, pessimism and hesitation in the novel touched me. The suffocating atmosphere and negative feelings really wrote out my feelings. I am eager to find my love, but there is nowhere. Speak, just like George in the novel, I even thought about suicide."
The film tells the story of George, a British professor who teaches at a university in Los Angeles. The gay man he has been in love with for 16 years suddenly suffers a car accident and passes away. One day after an eight-month trough in his life, he is heartbroken. Decided to end his life, the movie depicts what happened in the longest twenty-four hours of George's life. The background of the story is set in Southern California in 1962. As a professor of literature, George is personable on weekdays, and he is very gentleman in every gesture. In school, he is loved by students and his colleagues respect him; in life, he is a kind man. In the scene after George got up, the neatly stacked clothes, the careful care in front of the full-length mirror and the elegant English accent of Colin Firth, even the money for the servants are carefully wrapped in an envelope. All these details present the image of a gentle and elegant middle-aged man in front of the audience. Faced with such an exquisite man, I don’t think anyone would want him to be harmed, but things backfired. That period of love that lasted for more than ten years left a mark on George’s heart so much that he was in a nightmare every morning. Although this is the case, George may prefer to never wake up, because he can only meet Jimmy in a dream, and the intense inner loneliness when he wakes up is unbearable for him. Walking in the house where he once lived with his lover, every inch of space will touch the sight of George, and then he will be surrounded by a sense of loss. "Breathing" means that in such emotional torture, George spent eight months in the dark, and every day he had to pump himself up in front of the mirror to get the motivation to continue his life, but in the end all his efforts were in vain. It is worth mentioning that Colin Firth’s interpretation of the role is undoubtedly extremely successful, and because of his superb acting skills, he has won the favor of the actor of Venice. It was only in the scene where George received the bad news. In a few minutes, the huge emotional gap was vividly interpreted-the glasses held tightly in the hand and the forbearing sadness made the viewer understand the supremacy of this love in George's heart, especially the sorrow in the rain. The complete eruption made people want to give this poor man a warm embrace for him to vent his tears, and to send his own comfort.
Although the title is a single man, George is not the only lonely person in the film. Also, Charlotte is the one who kept the vacant room alone. This old British lover before George came out, experienced a failed marriage and was single for nine. At the young age, she longed to have someone's care to fill the emotional gap in her heart, and she became the ideal candidate in her heart with George, who she had been in love with. So she carefully prepared a dinner and invited George to a banquet. The high-end red wine, the flickering candlelight, and the still charming Charlotte. In such a romantic scene, I, who was as melancholy as George, can have a moment of joy, looking at these two lovely people. Embracing and dancing with the accompaniment of authentic jazz is indeed very healing. When the two were tired of playing and both lay on the floor, George was very gentleman and put a pillow on Charlotte. This meticulous care might be what Charlotte needed urgently, so she decided to express it to George My love, but I didn’t expect that it was George’s hysteria in exchange. Charlotte also vomited to George the distress in his heart through the drunken spirit. Although the unhappy separation did not become the final ending, the fan slowly The door closed in front of the screen seems to imply that the complex emotions between the two will no longer follow. Although Charlotte, played by Julian Moore, does not have many roles in the film, and the performance is quite regular, she still makes this woman who lives under the false appearance of seeming happiness arouse pity in the viewers' hearts.
For a professor, the relationship with the students is an important part of his school life, so the appearance of Kenny in the film makes George's intricate emotional world more and more messy, and the guess about Kenny's true sexual orientation is to watch The main reason for people’s disagreements after the film, but in my opinion, Kenny’s homosexuality is beyond doubt, but because it was decided that he could not make his true thoughts public in that era, so the viewer saw a Kenny, who tried his best to get close to George, but was accompanied by women as a cover, and you will never see the product of this specific environment in "Brokeback Mountain." Of course, Kenny's role is not simply a suitor, he can be said to have a huge impact on George's emotional transition. From the "encounter" at the bar where George and Jimmy met, to the water playing together, to the time when they came together to George's big house where his heart was like a testimony of love, in the process of this series, you can see George's The subtle changes, from the initial rejection of thousands of miles to the slow acceptance of Kenny into his spiritual world. In the room, Kenny was naked in front of George. The ambiguity was self-evident. Later, Kenny handled the wounds carefully for George. At this time, the narrative of the film is like returning to 1962, implicit and focused. detail. In the end, when George found out that Kenny had hidden the pistol he used to commit suicide in his arms, after seeing the reassuring smile in Kenny’s dream, George gave up the idea of committing suicide, knowing to let a desperate person regain his life. Of course, it was not this simple act that turned everything around instantly, but at that extraordinary moment, George realized that not only Jimmy, but the whole world cares about him. But the tragedy did not stop abruptly. God made a joke with George and caused him to die of a heart attack. At the moment before he died, he saw his lost lover, and the affectionate kiss also opened the chapter to George. The kiss given to Jimmy in the dream echoed, and the last day of George's life ended in a perfect cycle. In the film, Tom Ford’s pursuit of beauty has reached a point where it’s almost perfect. Even the selection of actors is very eye-catching. It brings together the beautiful faces of the three generations of old, middle and young people. Even the Latin American man who is a passerby is a prominent idol. So that every still of the film is enough to be on the cover of a fashion magazine.
As a leader in the fashion field, Tom Ford is equally comfortable with the artistic treatment of the film. He treated most of the pictures in gray, which matched George's depressed mood, and added strong colors to some details. On the one hand, it forms a strong contrast, on the other hand, it well reflects George’s emotional fluctuations, allowing viewers to see the world through George’s eyes; and the emphasis on time is also shown everywhere in the film, the most intuitive It is a close-up of the watch, and the ticking of the hands, even in the background music. These ticking sounds are also reflected in the background music. These indirectly express that the protagonist does not have a trace of nostalgia for life, but also invisibly slows the passage of time. . In emotional drama, Tom, who is a homosexual, can even more deeply move the resonance between himself and himself in the book, and sometimes even makes people forget that this is a movie with a special theme.
The film’s OST is also a fine piece. The Polish soundtrack master Abel Korzeniowski’s music justifies the faint sadness from beginning to end, while those pure jazz songs seem to put people in the United States in the 1960s. And all the meticulous design finally makes the film like a delicate specimen that has been soaked in time, for people to savor the beauty of it.
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