Make love into a bonsai

Morris 2022-01-14 08:02:30

Seeing comments that "Weekend Time" is "the most touching gay movie behind Brokeback Mountain", I always feel uncomfortable. It is not because these two films are bad, but because their styles are completely contradictory, just like the north and south poles of a magnet, lacking an environment where they can be put together and compared.

Brokeback Mountain stretches the timeline. The obstructed love between Jack and Ennis takes twenty years as the dimension, and is thus endowed with the weight of life-and-death bondage and soul-stirring; the weekend time is just the opposite, which completely narrows the emotional waves. , Compressed to a trivial weekend, and then zoomed in on every conversation, every fight, and every bed. If Brokeback Mountain is a towering tree, weekend time is like a carefully tailored bonsai. Its branches and leaves are not luxuriant, and its rhizomes are not deep and wide. It moves vertically and horizontally in a limited world, but it unexpectedly creates an exciting effect. From this perspective, director Andrew Haigh can say that he has pointed out a new way out for gay movies, that is, it

does not need to sell male sex, nor does it require big investment, and it can be brilliant by relying solely on scripts and dialogue.

The dialogue is what impressed me the most in the movie. Considering that the whole film is basically supported by a dialogue between two people, I think it can be moved directly to Broadway and become a drama (of course, it may need to be harmonious part XXOO). The lines of the movie are like flowing water, but they are full of unexpected novelties. For example, Glen said that changing the environment is to "repaint himself", and everyone around him is hiding his pencil; for example, Russ only allows Glen to not touch it. In his own armpits, Glen joked that you are a museum there; and the paragraphs where you are flying a plane with a "room with a view" are even more magical... The

plot of the movie does not have any big ups and downs, it is a bit like "love is in" Before dawn". The two protagonists have very different personalities, one is destined to fly high and free, and the other stays quietly, but in 48 hours, they compose a love song from sex to love. At the end of the movie, at the farewell station, the two men embracing and kissing in an embarrassing manner evoked boos and whistles from others. Russ, who had been gentle from beginning to end, suddenly raised his head fiercely, looking like a falcon passing by—reminiscent of the "beautiful thing" that was also made in England in 1996 and was rated as the top ten gay movie of the 90s: when two little ones The boy hugged and danced, and the people watching were equally unfriendly; while the mother who joined the dance lineup had the same sharp and sharp eyes.

After fifteen years in a cycle, Corruption finally produced another good movie.


Plot: ★★★
Dialogue: ★★★★★
Director: ★★★★
Cast: ★★★★
Screen: ★★★★
Review: ★★★★☆


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’s impossible to ensure that all the dialogue doesn’t fall apart, but the weekend time is completely smooth and natural. Compared with today’s Chinese-language movies, 99% of the dialogues are: the foreword is not followed by the words, the nonsense is continuous, the self-talking, the groaning...

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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

  • Russell: I moved around in foster homes until I was about sixteen.

    Glen: [softly] Mm-hm. Fuck.

    Russell: Met my best mate there, Jamie, when we were twelve. Erm yeah, it was nice, we just went around as a pair.

    Glen: Fucking hell. What was it like?

    Russell: What?

    Glen: Being "in care".

    Russell: It was fine. I mean, I wasn't abused or anything.

    Glen: Shame, you should've got a refund. Do they know about you?

    Russell: Who?

    Glen: Jamie?

    Russell: Yeah. I'm like his brother really. Everyone knows about me of my friends. Close ones, anyway.

    Glen: [Glen starts snickering, bit ashamed]

    Russell: What? What?

    Glen: [snickers] Is it really wrong that I find the whole orphan thing pretty sexy?

    [laughs out loud]

    Russell: [smilingly] O my god. What's wrong with you?

  • Glen: It's like when you've had the same friends for too long, they become like - Everything becomes cemented.

    Russell: What? And that's a bad thing, is it?

    Glen: Of course, it's a bad thing. I don't want to be in fucking concrete, thank you very much.

    Glen: It's like they won't let you, they won't let you be any version of yourself except an old version, or the version that they want you to be.