not just gay

Alysa 2022-11-16 04:16:38

Coming out (and all kinds of confessions) is always seen as a kind of harm to others, but why? I pull out my fragile softness and peel it to you, worrying about whether you will be stinged by my sincere fiery heat. Maybe this is not a gay movie in the traditional sense at all, it doesn't describe any relationship in detail, and it doesn't expose the ugliness of the treatment center, which exists not because of society, medicine or belief, he just drilled The gap between parents and children.

This is also the reason why the content of therapy cannot be communicated with parents. This therapy center is built on the shame and surrender of gays, which comes from and ends with parents.

In the film, Lee was scolded by his parents and brought back just because he talked with his parents about the treatment. It can be seen that the children in the treatment center were not abandoned. Their parents loved them, but they lacked communication. opportunity to communicate.

In this era, comrades no longer have to bear the charge of "breaking taboos". It is a lifestyle choice, and it should be.

Why is the communication between children and parents so laborious? From a same-sex perspective, this issue is more realistic and bloody, and most heterosexuals do not have the opportunity to "come out". How many relationships with their parents just don't understand and don't say anything .

Intercepted the dialogue between the male protagonist and his father, because this paragraph aroused my empathy.

Here the male protagonist made a somewhat impatient gesture

The word love can be extorted too much. Love consists of all pleasures and then covers up all unhappiness, just like parents can’t perceive their own harm to their children, because parents think that the source of all actions is love.

The male protagonist here has awakened and no longer feels ashamed to face himself and be himself.

I don't need these, I don't need your forbearance, your far-fetched acceptance, your critical love.

I'm not wrong, I shouldn't have to bear this.

In the end, the male protagonist put his hand out of the car window. I think he is free and his mind is free. Indeed, he may have a 1 in 10,000,000 chance that his arm will be knocked off by a big truck, but he will no longer lose his enjoyment of himself. The joy of habit.

All communication, and understanding of expectations, I began to feel meaningless, life is short, I no longer wait for your permission, I have to start living first.

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Boy Erased quotes

  • Nancy Eamons: [to her son Jared] I love God. God loves me. I love my son. That's it. I think for your father it's a little bit more complicated.

  • Jared Eamons: [to his father] I'm gay, and I'm your son. And neither of those things are going to change. Okay? So let's deal with that!