又名: 变装皇后复仇记(澳)
主演: 乔治·麦凯 内森·斯图尔特-贾瑞特 亚伦·赫弗南 约翰·麦克雷 安东尼娅·克拉克 尼玛·塔列格哈尼 莫·巴艾尔 皮特·麦克佛森 Asha Reid Luis Torrecilla Peter Clements John Leader Ryan Walker-Edwards Jackson Milner Paris Tenana 拉斯科·阿特金斯
制片国家/地区: 英国
上映日期: 2023-02-19(柏林电影节) 2023-12-01(英国) 2024-03-22(美国)
片长: 99分钟 IMDb: tt20114686 豆瓣评分:7.5 下载地址:迅雷下载
绝对是2024开年LGBTQ+影片的翘楚。从影片中可以看到LGBTQ+群体中两种截然不同的性力代表“深柜”和“queer”在顺直中的挣扎却惊人一致。影片想要表达的复仇意味不是男主之间的私人恩怨,而是femme女气对于toxic masculinity及父权主义的对抗。讽刺的是,典型女气代表者Jules为了复仇也不得不隐藏自己委身于顺直环境中。Preston和Jules权力地位的倒置其实已经是一种胜利,无奈暗生的斯德哥尔摩症候群情愫和“原来你也是可怜人”的不忍阻碍了普世意义中复仇的成功。复仇的交火中没有一方会是赢家。fake黄色卫衣作为串联全片的符号,从仇恨的种子长成虚假的爱意最终诞生的却是真心的果实,Preston假潮牌倒卖商的设定与他的深柜形象绝妙呼应。开篇Jules深夜在街道便利店买香烟与结尾Preston涉足gay bar的两个场景佐证了“城市性别化空间”理论,即当一种性向出现在与ta性别符号格格不入的场域中时会成为被凝视的对象,因而恐慌、不安、头晕目眩,但当Preston知道Jules将要上台表演时不禁流露出的期待笑容又仿佛是“为了你我可以忘记周遭”的铿锵誓言,不过这笑容却是复仇谎言被刺破前的凄美绝唱。一场最失败又最成功的复仇,一段最虚伪又最真挚的情愫。疯狂过后,一个蜷缩在阴暗潮湿的街道角落,一个手捧对方真心却满身鲜血,他们究竟能否再次纵情地相拥而眠?
情人节抽到如此激(基)情四射的影片也确实是超乎意料了,话题人群敏感拍摄尺度超大船戏超多到建议单独观看,从各个方面都令我觉得很适合今天这个爱情的氛围。深柜X变装皇后的矛盾到复仇,py变爱情再发现是骗局的心碎,对双方的情感惩罚,爽度堪比晋江,也因此拉高了观影的条件,十分不适合对此类设定人群情感和画面感到不适的所有人。影片对我本人十分友好,两位男主的颜值和演技十分在线,画面也具有美感。
先说画面,整个影片最抓人的就是光的运用,大约是因为男主之一的职业是变装皇后,所以大量霓虹感的灯光的使用让整个电影充满了迷幻感。大量的室内戏和夜戏给光线足够的发挥空间,包括但不限于男主的房间和工作环境,相遇的澡堂,酒吧甚至外景。蓝色和黄色光的大量运用并不少见,大多数对比着用去制造一种想象中的夜色感,会突出情绪不管是浪漫还是悬疑。因为两个人一个善于隐藏自己生活,一个为了复仇可以隐藏自己,所以在音乐和画面上总会融入一些音乐的悬疑因素,对于电影的节奏起到了想到好的作用。
回到角色和剧情,乔麦实在是太具有吸引力了,完全突破了我对他的一些固有印象,不管是前期的暴躁假直男还是后面被压制的大金毛和最后一段的脆弱,我简直觉得他要碎了。眼神拉丝到位,内心的两极化表现的绝佳,很难不爱上。最后生日会的戏份红了的眼眶都要心碎了,后一秒暴起又让人恐惧和愤恨,后面在地上哭泣又心疼,这绝对是演员的魅力吧。内森也绝对是突破性的表演了,女性化的角色和中段男性化的融入也跳的极好。剧情方面我感受到了情感的复杂和男凝对男性也造成的巨大压迫和影响,两个人各自的心态上的压迫与被压迫,将“男气”当作强者的标志最后却因”女气“吸引臣服,不管是隐藏还是展示,二者都因其产生了困惑和自我折磨,于是有了暴力的开始和暴力的结尾。无法面对的是情感和真实的自我,无法接受的是来自“男气”对“女气”的凝视和排斥。这是一个极大的严肃的甚至残酷的议题,两极化的两个人的情感故事揭开了这个议题的一角,让我们得以窥见和思考。
很爽快的一次观影体验,对于导演处女作来说完成度很高,值得讨论的部分也很多,刨除诸多的欲望片段和爱情之外,我们还可以看见更多。
不仅比女人像女人,还比女人懂男人,真是极品中的极品?。片中男主的驭男术,从被动到主动的成长过程真心觉得女人都该学学。
一、sex是个好东西
想驭男,首当其冲要把sex这个武器掌握好,女人的sex,男人的钱权,都是彼此的致命伤,小腰身露出来,美貌经营起来,照片晒出来,没男的抗得过。电影前半段男主就是这样做的,几张照片几句情话发过去,你看看把纹身男撩的……,这时可能有人会说,不对,男人都喜欢女人贞洁单纯,切,那是男人为独占女人给女人戴的紧箍咒,意思是他宁可牺牲女人的sex吸引力,也要至少把一个女人锁死在身边,可一旦你真成为这样的女人,你就只配做生育奴隶了,男人和你做不好爱也谈不了情。(用纯欲/玩物人设撩的不在此例)
二、光有sex还不够
得有情商,得会哄,女人是至柔的存在,别忘了这点,给足面子,给足让步,男人才愿意跟着你的节奏走。这个电影里也有啊,男主偷拍视频,惹得纹身男暴怒,男主便嘴上一直说对不起,是我错了,我应该事先告诉你,很多次的乖乖听话,很多次的做低服软,这才换来后来纹身男的慢一点。男主如果不先做到精神安抚,以退为进,纹身男是不会按照他的方法和他一起达到嗨点的。(等你能带领他到达嗨点他起码在生理上就离不开你了)
三、最重要的是自信和能力
随着电影剧情推进,身体生理上的吸引力慢慢减少,人格魅力的力量凸显出来。电影表现形式很直白,男主因为游戏打得好和纹身男的哥儿们混成一片,大家都很尊重他。现实生活里就没那么容易了,学识、职业、挣钱、家务、育儿、特长,美貌,家境,你起码要能有拿得出手的一项,才能换到他人的尊敬,就是这样现实。
写在最后,如果你不赞成驭男术,不想靠男人,只愿凭借自身力量成功,我敬重你。如果你想更省力地得到一切,想通过征服男人征服世界,我觉得也没什么可羞耻的。
但如果你靠自己明明成功艰难,却还是死命抵抗使用女性武器,或者因为自己成功艰难,所以也不允许其他女性使用武器,那骂你一句,又当又立,既蠢又坏,也不亏。
Title: Femme
Year: 2023
Country: UK
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Directors/Screenwriters: Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping
Music: Adam Janota Bzowski
Cinematography: James Rhodes
Editor: Selina Macarthur
Cast:
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
George Mackay
John McCrea
Aaron Heffernan
Asha Reid
Moe Bar-El
Peter Clements
John Lead
Charley Palmer Rothwell
Rating: 7.5/10
Three queer films helmed by budding filmmakers from the Commonwealth, covering three different time frames. BLUE JEAN is about a lesbian secondary school PE teacher struggling to handle her work and personal life in the Thatcher-era Newcastle, year 1988; OF AN AGE relates an unexpected sexual awakening of a 17-year-old Serbian-born Australian amateur ballroom dancer, all happens within 24 hours at the end of 20th century, and 11 years later, a belated reunion that is soiled by a home truth; lastly, FEMME is a nocturnal revenge tale about a drag performer’s precarious seduction of his basher set in the East London of current days.
FEMME is a linear thriller strobing in the bisexual lighting, agonized by rough actions and raptured by the elicitation of latent tenderness from a most unlikely person. Extending their BAFTA-nominated short into feature-length, Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s debut feature stars Stewart-Jarrett as Jules, a drag performer traumatized by a vicious attack from Preston (MacKay, a hormonal wild beast exuding a natural flair bellicosity and subjugation), a chav and an aggressive pusher. After espying Preston in a gay sauna one night, Jules realizes he doesn’t recognize him out of drag. Hence, he plans to secretly out Preston by recording a sex tape and then upload on the internet. It is a dicey plan, as Preston is super secretive about his homosexuality and they must also hide their hanky-panky from Preston’s straight friends, whose unannounced presence often disrupts their trysts.
Walking on the street in full drag at night is a dread-inducing experience for Jules (en passant, it also reminds people smoking is a bad habit one could live without), and despite of his pungent retorts to homophobic slurs, high heels are not helpful in tail-turning when things get physical. But a queer person’s vulnerability is not FEMME’s focal point, instead, it is Jules’ surprising adaptability that changes Preston’s (and audience’s too) estimation of him. He can code-switch seamlessly and mingle with Preston’s ultra-straight friends, even pulverizing them in video games, and gets an upper hand over Preston, whose faux-alpha persona starts to disintegrate. In truth, more often than not, behind a macho mask, there lurks a detrimental influence of deep insecurity or low self esteem. Stewart-Jarrett is a terrific funambulist, walking a tight rope of precarious situations to slowly turn the table against his dominant lover.
Just when Preston softens up towards Jules, FEMME reaches its climax to let the cat out of the bag. It is a tacky move to let Jules boast about his vengeful scheme in his first return on the drag stage, simply to enrage Preston and prepare audience for the blood-stained finale. Why not let Preston find out by himself what a horrible thing he has done to Jules and shitcan the sex tape, which Jules thinks better of? Revenge shall not be the cynosure, but a means to an end. Alas, when Jules opens his birthday gift from Preston in the end, it arouses a deflating feeling that he has lost something precious. Why does one feel Jules is being punished, he hasn’t even earned a sincere apology from his attacker?
To appeal for more allyship, the queer cinema is immanently burdened with a nobler cause than merely preaching to the choir. In this respect, both BLUE JEAN and FEMME carry off the onerous task of appealing for a wider acceptance and empathy, by splintering the jaundiced, blinkered slants and deploring the compartmentalization of any individual’s queerness.