Late at night in the United States, a young man was on the overpass, looking at the vehicles that passed through the river.
The next moment, he jumped into the traffic without any nostalgia, and a living life fell.
And what made him so desperate was his mother.
"God Bless Bobby"
This is a film based on a true story and tells the story of a teenager of the same sex.
In the seventies, at a high school in California, high school student Bobby was sunny, handsome, and had a girlfriend who was dating.
Also has a big warm family.
But Bobby has always hidden a secret in his heart that cannot be said, his girlfriend wants to be intimate with him, he will be pushed away by him, and every time he sees the handsome guy, it will make Bobby have a feeling of fawn bumping.
In this closed religious town in the 70s, he could only bury this secret deep in his heart. At that time, even the World Health Organization classified homosexuality as a mental illness.
The Bobby family was a devout Catholic, and the elderly grandmother mentioned homosexuals, comparable to the most heinous demons, who should all be pulled to be shot, and almost had a heart attack.
Bobby felt like he was standing on the edge of a cliff, with the abyss in front of him and hell in the back, and this feeling was not talked about at all, only left in the diary.
The matter was eventually "exposed", and he asked his mother for help.
But the mother's first reaction was: since her son is gay, she would rather not give birth to this son.
Catholic families, who could not tolerate a homosexual son, told him that if he did not want to go to hell, he would have to cure this "disease".
Shocked, the mother tried her best to "cure" her son. She forced Bobby to see a psychiatrist, but the so-called treatment was nothing more than some discriminatory and self-righteous "psychological advice."
Deliberately forced the son to date the girl, thinking that the child would have no time to gay.
He also often reminded his son to go to church to repent of his sins.
My mother's "well-intentioned" finally stole the last glimmer of hope from Bobby's heart, and I'm sorry I'm not the little Bobby you expected, but I can't always apologize for it, because I was born like this.
After leaving home, Bobby never returned.
Losing her son, the mother cried bitterly in the pouring rain, looked through her son's diary, and now understood her son's despair and helplessness, and those stubbornness, prejudice and incomprehension were swept away.
What's wrong with Bobby? He didn't need God's forgiveness at all, he was not at all wrong.
There is a constant bond between relatives and friends, but once the boundary is crossed, this entanglement has become "a big mountain", which cannot be crossed, let alone get rid of, and is pressed on the body, becoming heavier and heavier.
At the end of the film, the mother devotes herself to the cause of gay rights protection, to help the children who are connected to Bobby's life.
The world we live in is diverse, and for things you don't understand, even if you don't support it, you don't have to step on it, which will avoid many tragedies.
There was once a young man named Bobby who paid with his life for it.