loneliness love freedom

Toney 2022-03-23 09:02:59

Clean graphics, clean lines, and a style I love. Purely after watching, it may skip tone with the content of the movie.
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Someone said that loneliness is a garden. Everyone is lonely, lonely all the time. The room was full of people, and everyone was talking, smiling, and chatting. Suddenly, I felt like an alien. The embarrassed smile was frozen on the stiff face, making it seem awkward and out of place. In the final analysis, it is because I have a fundamentally different difference from everyone else, and it is invisibly magnified in my heart as if frozen in the spotlight. Russell always had a loneliness flashing on his face when he attended the party of his straight boyfriend. They are good brothers but in life they are really different. "We've only known each other for two days," he told his friend. Perhaps, he thought that Glen was the same kind and could understand each other because they were in a world that was generally similar in scope. Even if they didn't know each other that well, they could freely talk about their inner taboos.


A certain kind of companionship and attraction of this kind of sympathy is the first affection of love. I often fantasize about being in a strange city, in a strange apartment, with a strange lover. There is music, cigarettes and wine, warm yellow lights, you and me, we can talk about life, ideals, weather, food, other people's affairs, and finally I love you. True love should be free, unfettered, uncompromising, and spontaneous. Perhaps, usually suppressed by ethical inertia, we care more about some vague visions than our own inner feelings. It's like Russell's fear of upsetting his neighbors and being afraid to kiss him in a bar because he's gay. Most people are, confining themselves to the range that ordinary people understand and approve. So I hope that simple and beautiful stories will be released in a place that has no direct connection with me at all, and I will no longer be afraid of strange eyes when I have no acquaintances. When Russell said that he was an orphan who was fostered by a different family until he was sixteen, he said that fortunately no one abused him, he was free in a way, and he didn't have to worry about how he would explain to his family when he came out. Glen is more free and easy. At the age of sixteen, he had a showdown with his mother on Mother's Day and said, "It's all your fault, no matter what it is." At least have the courage.


Love itself is not right or wrong, I want to hold the hand of your lover, whether it is a lifetime or a moment.


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  • Casimer 2022-03-16 09:01:06

    1: Very small and fresh, very broken thoughts, but extremely real. 2: These days, men who bend like to have little cheeks, it's the same all over the world. 3: Is this a gay version of Before Sunrise? 4: Very exquisite from all levels, with wonderful dialogues, delicate emotions, and sincere performances. 5: The best gay movie in 11 years, not one of them. 6: The two male protagonists are very loving, the male one is silly and cute, and the male second is saucy and cute.

  • Travon 2022-03-15 09:01:06

    Four stars; the 48-hour encounter is over, but our love will never end. Just like most people's love affair, they also love ordinary, simple, but touching in the ordinary. The director is scheming. He shoots the movie at the best time for love. He knows how to sculpt characters in small places. Every action outlines Russell's shyness and Glen's cheerfulness as well as the gradient of the two people's emotional gradual changes.

Weekend quotes

  • Russell: I moved around in foster homes until I was about sixteen.

    Glen: [softly] Mm-hm. Fuck.

    Russell: Met my best mate there, Jamie, when we were twelve. Erm yeah, it was nice, we just went around as a pair.

    Glen: Fucking hell. What was it like?

    Russell: What?

    Glen: Being "in care".

    Russell: It was fine. I mean, I wasn't abused or anything.

    Glen: Shame, you should've got a refund. Do they know about you?

    Russell: Who?

    Glen: Jamie?

    Russell: Yeah. I'm like his brother really. Everyone knows about me of my friends. Close ones, anyway.

    Glen: [Glen starts snickering, bit ashamed]

    Russell: What? What?

    Glen: [snickers] Is it really wrong that I find the whole orphan thing pretty sexy?

    [laughs out loud]

    Russell: [smilingly] O my god. What's wrong with you?

  • Glen: It's like when you've had the same friends for too long, they become like - Everything becomes cemented.

    Russell: What? And that's a bad thing, is it?

    Glen: Of course, it's a bad thing. I don't want to be in fucking concrete, thank you very much.

    Glen: It's like they won't let you, they won't let you be any version of yourself except an old version, or the version that they want you to be.