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Albina 2022-03-23 09:02:19
It is also a model of a small point that changes an entire life. The topics discussed are relatively sharp, and the director's courage is not ordinary, putting child sexual abuse and gay issues together. Two boys with very different personalities, one cheerful and happy, is the star of the baseball team, and the other is silent and cowardly, unknown in the team. But one day, he was brought home by a baseball coach with severe pedophilia and suffered misfortune, which also became the shadow of the two that followed them all their lives. The picture of the film is bright and colorful, but it does not prevent the director from expressing the dark theme. Described to Neil as a "silent galaxy surrounded by", he is beautiful but sad, and becoming a male prostitute is only a part of his self-imposed exile and healing under the shadows of his childhood. Throughout the movie, you can hear his voice falling apart from the inside out in the beauty and shock, which is really distressing. At the same time, this movie also made Joseph Gordon-Levitt a once-in-a-lifetime performance, even if he has always had weird taste in film selection.
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Angel 2022-03-27 09:01:11
The male protagonist is really like Hu Ge~~~
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Monica 2022-03-21 09:02:19
There is nothing wrong with the theme, but the final sublimation is really a bit baffling. It weakens the dark side of pedophilia, and it is relatively normal to tell that the same thing has completely different effects on different people, but I personally still hold a negative attitude towards this, because children really do not have the ability to think for themselves, Maybe your heaven, but more likely his hell.
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[last lines]
Neil: [narration voice-over] And as we sat there listening to the carolers, I wanted to tell Brian it was over now and everything would be okay. But that was a lie, plus, I couldn't speak anyway. I wish there was some way for us to go back and undo the past. But there wasn't. There was nothing we could do. So I just stayed silent and trying to telepathically communicate how sorry I was about what had happened. And I thought of all the grief and sadness and fucked up suffering in the world, and it made me want to escape. I wished with all my heart that we could just leave this world behind. Rise like two angels in the night and magically... disappear.
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Neil, Age 8: Are you ready? Here we go.