Let me talk about the subject first .
When I mentioned "gay movies", I was actually limiting this Movies. Promoters can use this word as a movie gimmick, but this is by no means an appropriate word to describe the movie. For example, does Gone with the Wind talk about love? No, it's talking about war. So is this movie about gay love? No, it's about love. The problems brought by their fellow marriages—such as the church expelling George for his wedding—in my opinion are nothing but a symbol, a symbol that every relationship or every marriage will face challenges.
There are a few moving scenes
. Since George moved into a friend's house, he found that they were holding parties every day and couldn't rest at all. After a long time, he was filled with grievances, and finally couldn't stand it one night. It was pouring rain in New York at this time. On the other hand, Ben was also "disgusted" at his nephew's house. He sat at the dining table alone and had a meal when the doorbell rang. Ben opened the door and saw George who was soggy. The two embraced and wept. Their mutual grievances, only they can understand each other.
2. That night, George slept at Ben’s nephew’s house, G slept on the upper bunk, and B slept on the lower bunk. B suggested that they squeeze in the lower bunk together. G climbed down and retracted into the small single bed with B.
3. George is giving a piano lesson to one of his students. The student is playing the Raindrop Prelude. On one side is the student's playing, on the other side is George's narration. What he read was a letter written to the parents of the students, explaining that he could not teach anymore because the school could not accept him and his partner who walked 39 with him as a legal couple, and thanked the parents and students for their affection over the years. Tolerance and understanding.
4. Ben was painting on the rooftop of his nephew's house. Once he went downstairs to go home and accidentally fell off and broke his arm. After a period of self-cultivation, the two went out on a date together. After the date, George watched Ben slowly descend the stairs into the subway from outside the New York subway station, turning around and leaving until he couldn't see Ben.
5. Joey took a skateboard to the new residence that George found. He apologized for not being able to attend Ben's funeral because he couldn't accept this incident. He also gave George the unfinished painting that Ben was creating before he fell down the stairs. George hung the painting on the wall, then stared at the half-unpainted painting.
As for the soundtrack and the camera
, I said at the beginning that I am a big fan of Chopin. The soundtrack here can be said to be just right. This may be the reason why I shed tears every time the music plays during the movie watching. The director uses music rather than rhetoric to express the mood of the two behind those pictures.
I don't know anything about photography. But the gentleman who grew up in New York said that photography captures the city of New York very well. This New York is not the New York of the Statue of Liberty, not the New York of Wall Street, not the New York of Fifth Avenue, not the New York of Times Square, but the New York where people live. It's the hot dog stand on the corner of the Metropolitan Museum, the subway where people go home, and the tavern where friends meet in the evening.
In the end,
Love is strange, not because they are same-sex couples and so strange, but because of the moment when they fall in love with someone, the moment when they decide to spend their life with them, the moment of embracing, the moment of kissing, or even the moment of quarreling. The two people who are completely unrelated, just so sympathetic, but the unexplainable "love" is strange.
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