Ah's movie world is indeed a queer paradise, where homosexuals, transsexuals, transvestites, and fetishists flicker and become themselves and love, almost no one is anxious about their own sexual orientation. . For the majority of people who represent popularization and mediocrity, the aberrant posture and the shocking confession seem to confirm that this is not only the law of desire, but also an affront to the law, an offense to the convention, and a challenge to the world. Another deep meaning of "The Law of Desire" is the director's deep and melancholic gaze at his own puberty?
"Law of Desire", in 1987, we saw Antonio Banderas in the green years, Antonio Banderas, the son of a diplomat, played by him, 20 years old, young and impulsive, chasing prey on the streets of Madrid day and night-Director Barparo. Bapalo taught him how to kiss tenderly. He was entered by Bapalo and had sex with a man for the first time. He changed the lights and painted the paint for Barparo's house, and he wore the same floral shirt as Barparo-imaginary possession, infatuation. But Bapalo has another lover, Juan, who is in love but can't get along with. So Antonio was jealous, and he went to destroy. He pushed Juan off the cliff by the sea, he approached and became the boyfriend of Barparo’s transgender sister Tina, he murdered, he cheated, he kidnapped, he paid the price of his life in exchange for an hour alone with Barparo . Tender, affectionate, the last supper is average, and then commit suicide by drinking bombs. Is this the desire to possess? Or is it to fulfill the great, tragic desire for love in my own imagination? But he died, died in Huanian, in adolescence desperate for love. And we, Antonio's kind, did not die of heartbreak, and we escaped the shadow of AIDS for the time being, and passed our puberty like walking on thin ice.
What if Antonio survives? How will our love end with those who have loved us or we have loved? In 2004, Almodóvar gave his answer.
17 years later, in 2004, "Bad Education". The structure of the play, the "Visit" filmed by director Enrique is a mirror image of "Bad Education". Eric's first love, Iglegio, can be Tina in The Law or Antonio. In "Visit", Juan's Iglecio returns to the church school many years later, blackmailing the priest Moro, who had sexually assaulted him, but was killed by another priest. At the end, Father Moro seemed to be sad. On the "realistic" level of the narrative structure of "Bad Education", Iglecio is indeed a transgender, a milf addict, and was murdered by his brother Juan and Father Moro. Because I blackmailed? Because of drug abuse? Because Yi has affected the life and future of his younger brother Juan? That scene hurts my heart: Iglecio tapped on the typewriter before he died: Enrique, I think I finally succeeded. She didn't know that she was dying. Even if he doesn't die, will he succeed? Successfully extorted a huge amount of money, then successfully rehabilitated drugs, had a beauty treatment, and reunited with Enrique? We won't know, but she was shocked by the moment when she was self-righteous and longing for a new life. Later, Juan became a star, and the godfather Moreau repeated Iglecio's behavior-blackmailing Junan, was killed by Juan drove, and Enrique continued his life as a director.
A film review said that "The Law of Desire" and "Bad Education" are like the front and back of a coin, the sun and the back of the moon. Although the former has a shocking murder, it is a libido impulse in the joy of splendid life, cruel but not ugly. There is also Tina, a transgender sister who was sexually assaulted by a priest when she was a child, fell in love with her father and eloped, but was abandoned for her father's transformation. Faced with such a broken past, she said, I will never forget that memory is my only wealth. She still embodies her dignity and never betrays her past—refusing to use her own experience as the selling point of her brother's plays. She has a decisive and windy face that is angry, sad or peaceful.
The latter, "Bad Education" may show that art or life in our imagination is beautiful and cruel, and still reflects the beautiful side of human nature in the damage; while the cruelty of reality is so dirty and ugly.
Antonio, if you survived and didn't die of love, then turn your face back and don't face the dirty end of love.
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