She and "her"

Gabe 2022-01-24 17:48:38

From the early summer suspender skirts and eight beautiful pictures to the appearance of the house in recent years, his works can always hide the curious stories that should have been hidden in the social edition of the newspaper with a very elegant attitude on the big screen. Whispered. But through Ou Rong's narrative, the seemingly "dirty" mess can always just provoke the audience's nerves, making people want to stop, but it is not too absurd. Watching his movies makes people reluctant to jump to the end to know the answer quickly, but they also expect that the story will have a stronger dramatic turn. In short, I have to say that Ou Rong is the most outstanding director of the young generation of French films, and the most sensitive point of playing in the society.

Extramarital affairs, homosexuality, family incest, old and young love, and delayed dating, these themes in the past Ou Yung's films are actually nothing to the French. The society has opened up to this stage, and everyone is not surprised. This time it was about the cross-dressing crowd, and it almost hit the bottom line. Even if it is as open as Paris, it is still a minority of the few who can accept cross-dressing and accept Drag Queen. These are almost marginal among marginalized people. Ou Rong's new film Une nouvelle amie this year focuses on this group.

At the beginning of the movie, a close-up of a few women's faces while putting on makeup, with white headdresses, and a wedding march sounded in the background, thinking it was a wedding. Afterwards, the camera features a pair of intoxicating blue eyes. Just as I wanted to admire, they were touched forever by the hand. The camera switches, the bride is lying in the coffin, the coffin is slowly closed, and the funeral is in progress. A set of beautiful but metaphorical close-up shots, too Ou Rong.

"A misunderstanding for life", the transfer student Laura was arranged by the teacher to sit next to the little girl Clarie. Clarie looked up at the new classmate. Since then, those blue eyes have been imprinted in Claire's mind, and she has never lowered it whether it is through growth, marriage, or death. This is only the first 20 minutes of this story, and a French blue door has been compressed and portrayed. The story "takes a turn for the worse" and begins to walk on the road of no return of "heavy taste".

One day, Claire ran past David's house and discovered his unknown secret. It turned out that David disguised himself as a woman to coax the infant child. As the two went back and forth, Claire helped David keep a secret from the beginning of half-pushing and half-pushing, to beginning to accept David's other side, Virginie. At David's begging, he taught David how to dress like a normal woman, with "her" in a different costume, and go out to go shopping and relax. Gradually, the love between the two became unclear whether it was sisterhood or love. On the other hand, Claire, in getting along with Virginie (David's different costume), found that her feelings for Laura back then were not just friendship, but love-with a desire for sex.

I don't know if it is Romain Duris who has a sense of joy when he acts, or the setting of the role of "transvestism" is enough to make most people hilarious. -"Look at this man awkwardly pretending to be a woman", that's enough to make most people laugh. But, think about the Hong Kong movies in the 90s, gay guys are all used as comedy elements in the movies.
The audience laughed not because the plot was really funny, but because people looked down on it, so people burst into laughter. Too much is that the gay guys in those movies are all being played "girly cannons", almost naked discrimination.
However, these are almost no longer used in movies nowadays. Think how much society will start to face this group, and start to accept them.
Therefore, a movie just exposes people's masks cleanly. For this group, they still don't understand. Intolerant people are the majority, and they can even laugh unscrupulously.
In the current Western society, women are pursuing gender equality. LBGT is pursuing their respective legal status and rights in the society. Why do they pursue it is just because of inequality. Even in Western society, society is not open enough to respect him, her, "him", and "her".

The boys and Jim of last year are actually stories related to this group. The story of a boy who likes to pretend to be his mother. Although it is a real-life adaptation of the director and starring role, it is just a commercial comedy route, which is bound to be diluted. There is a lot of room for thinking. As for Ou Rong's new girlfriend, he has to constrain and give the audience more thoughts. Is transvesting really a disease? The question is like, is homosexuality a disease? I think you and I have their own answers.

When every child was young, he had a dream of being the center of the world. However, some children secretly discover when they are growing up that if he wants to pursue the joy in his heart, she can only walk on a road with thorns.

The final ending of the movie is very old-fashioned and warm, but it is indeed full of bravery. A man who becomes a woman, and a woman who loves a woman, living together may not be a romantic story.

Treat those who dare to walk into the thorns gently.

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Extended Reading
  • Herta 2022-01-24 17:48:39

    What do you think the film is missing

  • Pamela 2022-01-24 17:48:39

    Every time, Ou Rong would enter the room and show everyone the skeletons hidden in his cabinet, and said, "Look, it's nothing. Everyone has secrets. What is yours?"