Utopia on the balcony

Ian 2022-02-22 08:02:33

Folson Ozpeter’s movies are always big meal after meal, and when the camera moves horizontally across the colorful Italian home-cooked food, it’s hard not to be greedy. The protagonist’s thoughts in "Turkish Bath" have changed. The emotional transition of the plot takes place during a Turkish breakfast, lunch and dinner. The main plot of "Fatigue" is simply structured in a dinner party of friends, "Love Fierce family conflicts broke out at the exquisite banquet in the bourgeois mansion of "Stray Bullet". . . "His Secret Life" is no exception, the table and food are the protagonists from beginning to end.

It seems to be a story of a same wife looking for the secrets of her late husband’s life, but she accidentally discovers that her husband’s secret is not just a secret lover, but a real "secret life". In this "secret life", he Not only can he make desserts (corresponding to him who never cooks), he is close friends with the characters on each balcony (they are familiar with his various preferences, tastes, habits), and he is completely integrated into them (which is completely different from his own class) Rong) in the daily life circle, and who is this circle composed of? Illegal immigrants/political refugees from Turkey? /Lesbians, vegetable wholesale market vendors/Gay men, female supermarket workers, transgender women's shop owners and their friends. This is a group of “vulnerable groups” at the bottom of society (perhaps the middle and lower classes are more appropriate, there are a few self-employed after all), living in old apartments on the edge of the old city.

The director ideally set the actor Michel’s apartment, which is the space where the main plot takes place, on the top floor of the penthouse, a relatively large space that is much more spacious, and gave him a huge balcony extravagantly. He and his friends meet here. This balcony is the place where all those people who have been teased by life, mistreated or even abandoned, meet, meet and help each other, and it is also the place where love occurs (first Michel and Antonia’s husband, then Antonia herself). There are no hardships of struggling to survive in a big city, no cruel worldly prejudice and discrimination, and even the middle-class community of the “core of society” is very far away, so that if Antonia did not accidentally discover a clue, she would never die in Rome. Set foot in this neighborhood and meet people in this neighborhood. Not only did she meet them, but like her husband, she accepted, identified and integrated into them, happy what they liked, and worried about what they were worried about. She would chop fine onions for them, clean up housework, and take care of AIDS. Ernesto’s responsibility for the worsening situation. She had quarrels, conflicts, misunderstandings with Michelle again and again, and returned again and again, just because she wanted to learn more about the secrets of her dead husband from him, and find more of the smell of her dead husband? I think in the middle of the movie, she stopped coming here to discover the traces of her dead husband. She continued to come back because she slowly discovered that she liked them, she needed them, and she couldn't do without them.

There is a well-known cliche in the gay community: "family is not who you are born with, but who you choose". We often encounter the incomprehension of blood-related families. Use this sentence to encourage yourself when you disagree and misunderstand, and build a "new family" among friends who share common values. Antonia was doing similar things unconsciously. When she first visited and was still wondering what face she would use to treat these "traffickers", they were already busy accepting her and letting her enter their lives. , Become a part of them. So these secret family members of her husband eventually became her family members. At the end of the movie, she traveled to Amsterdam, and Michel did not have a broken cup indicating that she would come back and come back to them.

This colorful large balcony of an old apartment in a civilian area and the people living in it reminds me of the glorious Italian neo-realist film tradition: the apartment building in Rossellini’s "Rome Unfortified" is the ground-floor inhabitants of the white horror during the war. In the space where Survival and Underground Rebellion meet, the neighborhood in the old town in Sanchez’s "Eleven o'clock in Rome" is as harmonious as a family member. They fully accept the return of the girl who was unexpectedly pregnant and even wanted to find a short sight. Desica’s "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" "In the old streets of Naples, the unemployed men and their smugglers who sell illicit cigarettes. In Visconti’s "Little Beauty" Annamagniani swiftly ran up and down to give his neighbors nutrition injections to make extra money at night. Go to the yard to watch an outdoor movie with the neighbors. . . After the end of the Cold War and the restoration of cultural conservatism in the 1990s, in the new millennium, we have seen transvestites, homosexuals, and illegal immigrants/political refugees sharing the names of "vulnerable groups" on such a balcony. In fact They also share the same class sentiment ("My cousins ​​are countless, they all have a red heart" class identity), and they are struggling to survive with difficulty and optimism. They can use the convenience of work to give their friends the green light (smuggling goods in the supermarket), they use white lies to give their friends the courage to continue living (to hide the fact that Ernesto's lover is dead), their vitality, vitality and value recognition Captured the upper middle class living in the Riverview Mansion (first husband, then wife), and at the same time captured us in front of the screen, let us (after nearly fifty years) cast our eyes, emotions and identity to these bottom people again They were compassionate and lovely people, although they were far from the mainstream of the world's screens at the time, they were respectable enough.

As for the love between Antonia and Michele, the director obviously did not stick to the law of sexual orientation that is now burdened by "political correctness" (this law has been so harsh and absurd that bisexuality cannot be tolerated), Anthony The transition from anger to Michelle to being attracted to worrying about Michelle was handled quite naturally. She never wanted or knew how to face him, to discover the boy’s friendliness, delicate and non-aggressiveness, to accidentally seeing his beautiful body and keeping her eyes intent, to being jealous of his slutty body at the party, to Finally brought him to the mansion by the river and made friends with him. The two of them kissed, not only to remember Massimo again, to find the last trace of Massimo in each other, but also to bid farewell to Massimo and prepare to start a new life: Antonia will have a child, and Michelle deliberately fell. The cup is not broken, which also shows that he placed Massimo in the past and looks forward to Antonia's return to start another life. Some people will say that he is gay, how can he love women. In the movie, the director also answered. The eldest sister in Turkey asked Michelle if she fell in love with Antonia. Someone interrupted and said Antonia was not lesbian (meaning that Michelle is gay, it’s impossible for them), and the eldest sister said " I’m talking about love.” Yes, human emotion is the last ghost after human beings logicalize and rationalize everything in the world, because it is always irrational, illogical, and transcends all our artificially defined frameworks. , Also contains unlimited possibilities. In the gay rights movement and the struggle for rights, sexual orientation is a high flag and a rallying slogan, which delimits the boundary between "comrades" and dissidents, but in the hidden and deep world of human emotions, we don’t need to be so clear. If We believe that love can transcend class, cross race, and even defeat death. Why can't we believe that love can break the gap between stereotyped imagination and straight-curved sexual orientation? When sexual orientation is continuously subdivided, the variety of sexual minorities becomes more and more complex, the letters behind LGBT continue to increase, and gender issues have stagnated all over the world and even fell into a full-scale crisis today (the universal rights of women) Losing the huge contradiction with the legalization of gay marriage in various countries), maybe gender, gender roles, sexual orientation and gender politics are all at the time when they need to be redefined. With more imagination, there will be more possibilities to create a more ideal world.

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  • Title Card: [written on the back of the painting] To Massimo, for our seven years together, for that part of you that I miss and I will never have, for every time you said I can't, but also for every time you said I'll be back... Always waiting, can I call my patience love? Your ignorant fairy