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A Chinatown detective network drama pushed the name Qiu Ze to the cusp of the storm again, and the negative public opinion and skilled acting skills such as the "scumbag" around him were discussed by the public, and this once-traffic student had a mixed reputation for a while.
Today, we objectively face the identity of Qiu Ze as an actor and take a look at Qiu Ze's movie "Who Fell in Love with Him First" released in 2018.
The film won a lot of awards, Qiu Ze won the Taipei Film Award for best actor for this drama, and the female protagonist Xie Yingxuan won the Best Actress Award at the 55th Golden Horse Awards.
As a same-sex movie, "Who Fell in Love with Him First" does not focus on the love between same-sex characters, but puts this intolerable emotion in the complex real world, where everyone in the film is wrong but also innocent.
Ordinary housewife Liu Sanlian (Xie Yingxuan) found that her husband was cheating, the object of cheating was still a man, and the husband confessed that he had always been a homosexual, and that he had started a family with her just to live a normal life.
Subsequently, the husband moved out of the house and lived with Xiao San Ajie (Qiu Ze). Her husband died soon after, and the insurance claim left behind was written with The name of Xiao San. In other words, the husband left a large amount of property to an outsider.
Liu Sanlian, who gave everything for the family, collapsed, and she almost harshly hoped that her son Song Chengxi could study hard and become a talent, but also because of decency, she did not want her son to know the fact that her husband was gay, but in the end, the gap between mother and son became deeper and deeper.
Meanwhile, Liu Sanlian and Ajie formally confront each other, accusing Ajay of intervening in her family and demanding that he return her husband's insurance claims.
But Ajie told him in an indifferent tone that he was a man, one more than Xiao San, and he was called Xiao Wang. This attitude made Liu Sanlian more and more collapsed, and what made her more embarrassed was that her son Song Chengxi listened to all this outside the door.
After Liu Sanlian had a big fight with her son, Song Chengxi ran away from home, but her relationship with Ajie became closer and closer.
Song Chengxi knew that Ajie had a dream of running a stage play. It was also in the process of getting along day by day that he began to shake his own concept, feeling that Ajie was not a bad person like Liu Sanlian's mouth.
Ajay had such a conversation with Song Chengxi.
Song Chengxi asked him: How long is 10,000 years?
Ajay said: Ten thousand years is when a person tells you that he wants to be a normal person, and then leaves you, and every day after that is ten thousand years.
It turns out that at the beginning of the story, Ajie and Song Zhengyuan are in love, and they are the initial lovers.
Later, because of secular prejudice, Song Zhengyuan broke up with Ajie, married Liu Sanlian, and gave birth to Song Chengxi. On the day of Song Zhengyuan's wedding, Ajie rode a motorcycle and watched Song Zhengyuan from a distance with a festive cannonball and a suit.
Ajay smiled stunnedly, and from then on, the rest of his life was ten thousand years.
Song Zhengyuan was soon diagnosed with cancer, he wanted to be himself for the rest of the day, and after confessing to his wife, he resolutely found Ajay with his luggage.
Ajay didn't say anything, two men standing in a dim alley, the smell of garbage, their feelings of not being accepted by the world could only exist in such a place.
Ajay borrowed a loan shark to treat Song Zhengyuan's illness, but in the end he could not save the other party's life.
Ajie asked Song Zhengyuan: Why is it that when we love each other, my mother will not be happy?
Song Zhengyuan said: It is our responsibility to let them not be sad and not worried.
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Back to the title, who fell in love with him first?
From Ajay's point of view, he is the one who fell in love with Song Zhengyuan first, so he is destined to sink in this relationship. However, he respected Song Zhengyuan's decision, let him start a family, and regarded Song Zhengyuan's dream of doing a stage play as his dream.
His lover is dead, and he is going to live for his lover.
Such a jay, is a pathetic man.
But from Liu Sanlian's point of view, she is more innocent.
In her relationship with Song Zhengyuan, she is also the party who fell in love with Song Zhengyuan first.
As the issue of the same sex is constantly discussed by the public, another group in this society is also being forced to increase in a willing or unwilling manner.
They are "half-wives".
Gay wives, married in a hidden way by the other party, became his partner, but have not been able to get a real married life, mentally constantly suppressed, and finally to collapse.
Liu Sanlian is a typical half-wife. She is an ordinary person, and when she meets Song Zhengyuan, who is a professor, everyone around her tells her that she is lucky.
But after getting married, Song Zhengyuan was lukewarm to her, making her always think that she was not good enough, and even wanted to learn some inferior methods to please her husband.
Liu Sanlian is a somewhat neurotic person, in order to win the compensation for her son, she threatened Ajie, saying that if she did not hand over the claim, she would tell Ajay's mother that he was a shameful homosexual.
Such crazy roaring words were just heard by his son Song Chengxi, who pointed at Liu Sanlian with a disappointed face and asked her: Why are you my mother?
Liu Sanlian, with her hair in a mess, also asked him back: Yes, Song Chengxi, why should I be your mother?
At the end of the story, the loan shark breaks one of Ajay's legs, but even if his leg is broken, Ajay has to go to the stage play. Liu Sanlian and Song Chengxi watched his repertoire in the poor little broken theater with few audiences.
At that moment, Liu Sanlian remembered his first meeting with Song Zhengyuan, and also understood that the "little three" in front of him had been fulfilling his dream for Song Zhengyuan.
At the end of the bleak stage play, Ajay's white-haired mother came in with a bouquet of flowers, you know, before that, Liu Sanlian had already told Ajie's mother the fact that Ajie was gay out of revenge.
Looking at the bouquet of flowers held by his mother, Ajay cried.
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In our view, whoever falls in love with him first crosses the line first, and crossing the line is to destroy morality and be punished.
Same-sex is still a taboo topic in mainstream society, and such people often have to withstand the criticism of many people to live a normal life.
For example, Song Zhengyuan, he must suppress his own orientation and have a normal family, in order to survive in the interpersonal society, only when he is dying, he dares to do as he pleases once.
At the end of the story, Liu Sanlian gave the claim to the loan shark Ajie, who also learned to get along with her son in a softer way.
Homosexual discrimination, same-sex psychology, and native family are hot topics in modern society that are discussed in depth in this film.
Love is actually a very simple and pure thing, but any love needs to be regulated in morality, and there are many groups in this society that need our tolerance and understanding.
They don't expect you to give him a hug, they just want you not to look at the monster and criticize it maliciously.
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Gu Yichen, a young writer, focuses on emotional healing and inspirational sharing, writing bed-warming stories and pouring sour and spicy chicken soup.
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