normal heart

Douglas 2022-04-21 09:03:00

When the film first came out, I went to junior high school because Peacock bought the disc. After watching it, I really left a deep impression, so much so that I still remember the appearance of Peacock getting thinner and weaker. It is also because this film was the first time I knew about the bathroom. After many years of comrades fighting against an unknown and deadly virus in the 1980s, I watched it again. I have a better understanding of the LGBT community than before. After this viewing, I was in a bad mood for a long time. The calm film begins with the success of the gay sex liberation movement and the beginning of an unknown virus. Compared to the joy of the sex liberation movement, I see more of a deadly virus that comes from an unknown virus. There are comrades who are constantly in fear because of the death of this disease and the continuous failed struggle of the main characters in the film, which makes the film even more gloomy and despairing. There is also the possibility of getting sick. Does the ruling class continue to cover up and let the epidemic raging among comrades and directly eliminate the collective existence of comrades? I really dare not think about the various embarrassments that Bruce encountered when he returned to his hometown with his dying lover. It shows the discrimination that the LGBT group has always been subjected to, and it is still like this even now. The end of the film is also dark. The business cards are taken out from the card holder and put into the drawer, just like the film says that this is a generation. Disappearance is the disappearance of ordinary people with ordinary hearts

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  • Ned Weeks: I belong to a culture that includes Marcel Proust, Walt Whitman, Tennessee Williams, Alexander the Great, so many popes and cardinals you wouldn't believe. Mr. Green Beret, did you know that it was an openly gay Englishman who's responsible for winning World War II? His name's Alan Turing and he cracked the Germans' Enigma code. After the war was over, he committed suicide because he was so hounded for being gay. Why didn't they teach any of that in schools? A gay man is responsible for winning World War II! If they did, maybe he wouldn't have killed himself and you wouldn't be so terrified of who you are. That's how I want to be remembered. As one of the men who won the war.

  • Ned Weeks: Once upon a time, there was a little boy who wanted to love another little boy. One day finally found that love and it was wonderful. I'm supposed to use gloves. I'm supposed to do this. I'm supposed to do that. I'm supposed to not kiss him. I'm not supposed to be only 45 years old and taking care of 35-year-old young man, who's a 100 years old and dying. Emma calls it a seesaw. He's fine. He gets sick. He gets better. He gets sicker. He's afraid I'll leave him. I told him I wouldn't leave him, that I never, for one second would think of leaving him. But he doesn't believe me. It's hard to believe in much these days. But we must never stop believing in each other. I'm a mess. That's what I am. You cry and you cry until you think can't cry anymore. And then you cry some more. Not only for yourself and Felix, but for all the little boys who finally found their other little boys they've wanted all their lives now that we're men.