In april's cinema movies, Lori's "Like You" with uncle, "Dasheng Marrying Relatives" with hot fried cold rice, and "Chunjiao Save Zhiming" that has loved for so many years are all love films.
After watching more of these passionate love, today's film bacteria would like to recommend you a different one.
The love in this movie is very strange —
"Love is Weird"
Love Is Strange
The poster shows two old men in dresses, one black and one white.
That's right, they're getting married.
This is a story about an elderly gay couple who love each other, and the scene begins with their marriage.
The black-haired Geroge is a parian at a church school, and the white-haired Ben is a painter.
They stayed with each other for 39 years, and finally held a pastoral wedding in the old age of their lives.
At the wedding, it was the tenderness of a couple of lovers and the song and swallow dance of the guests.
Among the guests, there are many pairs of comrades, who are touched and inspired by the persistence of the old couple for decades.
After the wedding, the change suddenly appeared.
The church school fired George because he could not stand his gay status, and Ben, who had long since retired, only relied on a small pension to survive.
So the elderly lovers just got married and faced a painful dilemma - they could not afford to pay the mortgage.
Director Ira Sachs is best at depicting the plight of marginalized people succumbing to small corners of big cities, and the two two people in Love Is Strange face the same situation, they lose their houses.
After some discussion, George and Ben had to stay with friends and relatives, respectively.
Immediately after the separation, a second dilemma struck- sending people under the fence.
Ben lives with his nephew.
Just married to the lover who has been together for 40 years, and then hastily separated, the old man is always in loneliness.
This old man who couldn't help but want to talk about something was faced with such a situation -
The nephew only came home at night, and he couldn't find the shadow when he wanted to chat with him.
The niece-in-law is a writer who crackles every day, and the noise interrupts her writing thoughts.
The nephew is a teenager in the restless period of youth, and he finally made a close friend in isolation, hoping to have some of his own private space.
In the face of the old man's whispers, the irritability of the niece and the nephew's tit-for-tat followed.
The old man's heart was stinging little by little.
He began to become silent, not speaking during meals, knocking first before entering the door, and painting to the quiet and deserted rooftop.
George wasn't in much better shape than Ben either.
He lives in the home of a comrade policeman, which is crazy noisy compared to Ben's suffocatingly quiet environment.
After repeated bombardments, George finally couldn't stand it and rushed out of the house.
When George, who was drenched in heavy rain, found Ben, the two old men hugged each other with tears in their eyes.
Under Ira's lens, this scene is extremely moving.
Director Ira came out before directing his first film, Delta (1996), and he grew old with the lead characters as he directed them.
"Delta" is about young comrades, 2012's "Light up" is about young and middle-aged comrades, and this part talks about elderly comrades.
"Light up"
Ira admits that his previous films were all brewing emotions for "Love Is Strange".
However, when we have been looking forward to the so-called "emotional explosion" point in the process of watching the movie, we have found in the end that in fact, the emotion he said, where is the concentrated explosion, where is the audience expecting anger or crying.
None of them.
"Love is Strange" is not actually about gay love, but only "love".
What is the process of love? It is from cute to warm to calm.
And the love between these two lovers for 40 years has precipitated the gentleness and calmness of water.
So the director's "restraint" along the way in the shooting brings not dullness, but the beauty, touching and sadness that people immerse themselves in, as well as the thinking that occasionally makes you withdraw.
A pair of gay old lovers, along the way to 40 years, must suffer a lot more white eyes and discrimination than ordinary people or even ordinary homosexuals.
In "Love Is Strange", the director chose such an ingenious angle -
The nephew has been a supporter of George and Ben's same-sex marriage, and even warmly invited him to live in his home.
But when he discovers that his son Joey may have homosexual tendencies, the first thing he thinks of is "I'm going to talk to him," with incomprehension and obvious anger.
Only this one shot gently shatters all the false masks in front of it.
Those who were touched by the guests at the wedding seem fragile after this deep-seated prejudice was uncovered.
But after 39 years of forbearance and precipitation, all these injustices and prejudices have blossomed into the wisdom and strength of life for these two old men, and the moving thing about "Love is Strange" is that it records these moments.
In addition to this, the strength of the film is also reflected in his attention to different groups of people: children, police, gay groups and even churches, all with unique focuses and thoughts.
Ira, a director who is also gay, must have had a turbulent heart when filming these prejudices and unfairness, but when he filmed the love between the two old people, he was so gentle and light.
On that night when George couldn't stand the party, he moved into Ben's nephew's house, and they slept on the bunks of his nephew's bed.
Ben offered to let George go to the bottom bunk to sleep together, and George gently squeezed into the single bed with Ben.
The two slept together, not for sex, but for the hugs they had been accustomed to for a long time.
There are countless trivial details about them in the film, and every detail points to love.
He knew every habit of his, knew whether he loved or did not love.
He knows his happiness and unhappiness, his joy and weakness.
They habitually touch, kiss, and hug each other when they break up.
He would feel lonely without him.
And all this has nothing to do with comrades, just love.
Love is very strange, strange that two people who are originally unfettered can actually start to worry about another person after falling in love.
Love is strange, strange enough to ignore gender, let people endure all injustice and discrimination, only for that person.
Love is very strange, so strange that it can filter out all impurities in the end, leaving only love.
If you want to see it, Station B has it.