What the male protagonist yearns for is that free Paris, the romantic and fashionable capital that all of us envy, but the difference between the male protagonist and us may be that he was an Israeli and a Jew before. Immersed in the environment he wanted to flee from, elitism, absolute obedience... This is evident from his previous military experience, because he was in a state of rebellion, so he wanted to flee, flee his country. And when he found out that the Paris he dreamed of being integrated into was not the free gesture he dreamed of, the contradiction became apparent. This was the prelude to the theft of all his belongings at the beginning, the murder of a good friend, and the development of contradictions. more and more exciting. This film uses learning French as a carrier to express the alienation and powerlessness of the male protagonist as a foreign cultural person who wants to integrate into the reality of Paris, France, not only the language, but also the culture, background and historical reasons. Freedom is also relative. Paris, which the male protagonist desperately wants to integrate into, is just a besieged city, but people outside want to enter. Of course, for the meaning of "synonyms", there are many ways to understand the mapping of the male protagonist.
However, the labeling of this film as homosexual and LGBT is biased, the meaning of homosexuality is not obvious, and the heroine's method is only interpreted as sexual liberation.
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