How long does true love last

Blaise 2022-04-23 07:03:49

After watching "Weekend Time", I was very melancholy and very sentimental. There is no doubt that this is a low-budget movie, most of the scenes in Russell's house, the main characters are Russell and Glen. The entire film begins with Russell and Glen's dialogue, including two sex scenes. In such a simple plot, many issues are discussed, such as coming out of the closet, boyfriend, cheating, falling in love, getting married and so on.
Both Russell and Glen recorded their interactions with strangers in different ways, one using a diary and the other dictating. Russell is a shy and mild-mannered person, and Glen is a lively and articulate person, so Russell writes a diary for himself, while Glen uses a tape recorder for others to listen to. Through Russell's diary, we can see that Russell met men in the bar, sauna, and bathhouse. Those men are very strange. They only have the first time, but not the next time. As for Glen, Russell didn't write it down. Likewise Glen didn't let anyone else hear Russell's dictation. For those they care about, they put it in their hearts.
In fact, in two days, the two should have had sex three times, the first time it was described on tape, and it was known from their dialogue that Russell was in a drunken state. The second time was when Glen went to Russell's workplace to find him in the afternoon. Before the sex this time, the two had a preliminary understanding, so the subsequent sex seemed very natural and very enthusiastic. When Glen left, there was a little bit of reluctance, especially when Glen told Russell that he would go to the United States to study for two years tomorrow. At this time, when Russell said something good, he must be a little sad, and Glen was even more reluctantly. When leaving, on the downstairs path, looked back at Russell's room, but didn't look back when he left in the morning. The last sex was after a heated argument between the two, which seemed to be an unpleasant quarrel, but actually allowed the two to get to know each other better. That is, after this sex, the two were lying on the bed. Glen pretended to be Russell's father and let Russell come out of the closet with his father. It was very warm and embarrassing. The next morning, when Russell wakes up in bed, Glen hands him coffee, which echoes earlier in the movie, where Russell made the coffee and served it to Glen. It can also be seen here that the two are more intimate and familiar. When they left, Glen looked back at Russell's room on the path and stayed for a few seconds. Russell also lowered his head and watched Glen in front of the window.
A chance encounter, from first acquaintance to acquaintance and falling in love, took only two days, and it felt unbelievable. With the right person, anything is possible. On the platform where they broke up, the two embraced and shed tears. If it is true love, why should it last!

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Extended Reading
  • Cassandra 2022-03-20 09:02:32

    A / If a rigid concept of boundaries is presupposed, then the film can only show or be trapped in boundaries. But the boundaries that Hagrid portrayed in this work are constantly floating and looming. Starting from the tilt of the building under the street slope when the title was released, the film enters a "life" world where many sounds and distortions of perspective coexist. Heterosexual couples breaking into the fixed camera, gay couples walking into the swimming pool through the slow mirror, and even unstoppable voices blocked by their figures in the swaying subway space... They are all indifferent but still The strange feeling of the diaphragm breaks the "room" created by the camera for the protagonist. But Hagrid doesn't stop at smoothing this coexistence. He repeatedly rubs the feeling with intimate and improvised exchanges, affirming that its plain density collides with its "reasonable" form. In the end, this split identity experience is wrapped up in a clumsy way of acting, turning into a wisp of smoke drifting in the distance outside the window.

  • Orin 2022-03-16 09:01:06

    Of course, it cannot be compared with the time before sunrise and sunset. The dialogue is not as attractive and moving as the former. There are too many sex scenes, which take away the role of the movie, but fortunately, the performance is invested and the feelings are sincere.

Weekend quotes

  • Glen: Look. Straight people like us as long as we conform, we behave by their little rules. Imagine your friends if you suddenly started getting all, but really, political about being a fag, or you got suddenly, like, camp and swishy or talked about rimming all the time.

    Russell: [interrupting] But that's not what I'm like, is it? That's not who I am.

    Glen: Well, just trust me: They like it as long as we don't shove it down their throats.

    Russell: Okay, well, why should I just shove it down their throats?

    Glen: Because they shove it down our throats all the time: Being straight. Straight story lines on television, everywhere - in books, on billboards, magazines, everywhere. But, ah, the gays, the gays -

    [gasps]

    Glen: "We mustn't upset the straights. Shh. Watch out. Straights are coming.

    [lisping]

    Glen: Let's not upset them. Let's hide in our little ghettoes. Let's not hold hands. Let's not kiss in the street, no."

  • Glen: We have the chance to make up our own shit! We can grow our own garden, and put little flowers and pansies and gay gnomes in it, and water features and water sports and slings. But, no. Everybody wants to concrete the fucker over and get a gas barbecue.

    Russell: You're obsessed with concrete. You're absolutely obsessed with it.

    Glen: [laughing] But why would you want *concrete* when you can have whatever you want?