In the whole movie, the most impressive plot is when Ned smashes milk and vegetables on the peacock. Two beautiful people are helpless souls at this moment, and no one can blame them for their tragic color, because it is not the character but the society that causes this tragedy. In this scene, Peacock sits alone on the ground, eating junk food. This is a passive struggle against fate. Since it cannot be better, it is better to keep getting worse. This is also an extreme. I have always thought that the torture of sickness is the most cruel thing in this world. When a patient watches his body's function slowly decline, but he can't do anything, he is struggling to do extremely simple actions for a normal person, his heart and his will are also slowly exhausted. And this kind of torture, in my opinion, is more cruel than accidentally taking people's lives. And no matter how Ned felt the same way, he had a healthy body after all, and he couldn't really feel the slow passing of his life, but he was helpless and frustrated. He was angry at Peacock's self-defeating, and when his lover no longer wanted to save him, any efforts he made were just in vain. But he is actually more angry at his incompetence and the indifference of society. Homosexuality, AIDS is not something they can choose, but they are forced to bear all the consequences.
Both "Ordinary Heart" and "Dallas Buyers Club" focus on the vulnerable group of AIDS patients, although the current society is enlightened and tolerant. But discrimination still exists, and as long as human differences exist, discrimination will not disappear. Just hope that people can accept physical differences equally and not let physical differences become psychological differences.
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