After watching it, I felt that this movie was far from what I imagined.
Urban cowboys live in a world of their own. He loves Tobe, this love is sincere, but it is intertwined with the surrounding environment and times, but he has to build his feelings on a platform built by lies. Despised, regarded as a "scum", trying to prove himself without any clues, kind but violent, this is Harlan.
Wear outdated denim, speak the cowboy way, and deal with the conflict the cowboy way. He lives unreal, he tells a lot of lies, and he lives in this world in a very outdated way. His love for Tobe and his love for Lonnie are all isolated. If isolated from time and space, he can be a good lover and a good friend, but in fact it is not.
In fact, love is conditional, and Wade's grumpiness and toughness are part of the reason, and most of it comes from the entire era. I am not very able to express the profound truth in words, but this kind of lonely love eventually embarked on a dangerous road of no return, but it is reasonable.
What impressed me the most was the conversation between them sitting in the bathtub. Although the film just started, I feel like it has come to an end. The sense of tragic foreshadowing appeared in consciousness from the beginning, and as the plot spread little by little. Come on. For more than an hour, I was in a state of "full alert", as if waiting for "the final judgment".
There are many stories of love being hurt, and this is one of them.
I didn't really like the way the ending was done, but overall I liked the whole movie. After all, it is an independent film with only 8 million, and the subject matter is still full of postmodernity, and the plot is not very conventional, which is more in line with Edward's consistent style. Not much bright, not many dark.
Also worth recommending is the soundtrack of this film. It's really worth recommending, the soundtrack is very good and very special.
Regarding Edward, I have been following him all the time, and I have been watching his films systematically recently. This person does not play mainstream characters, the role of the marginal person in society suits him, perhaps it is this unique style that makes him have today's status among movie fans. This gentleman, who has made it clear that he hates commercial films, often mingles with irritable and fragile characters, earning us a lot of truth.
PS I firmly believe that the French in the film is spoken by him. I wrote this as soon as I watched it, and I didn't bother to research it, but Edward does often spare no effort to show his various talents in the film. For example, in "Keep the Faith", he's got a few lines of Spanish (or something else? I think it's Spanish), and guitar... um. That's about it.
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