Generally speaking, the evaluation of Goodbye Lips is not good, which may be related to the nature of the film. The film itself, like its protagonist and the story it tells, is derailed, deviated from the mainstream, unrecognized and shady. ...
You might say that several losers huddled together to keep warm and created a less popular work.
The biggest criticism of this film is "no three no four", and it is difficult for you to find a classification for it, which is a bit like four.
The main character of this film is a band, but it is not an idol documentary. The band only sang three songs back and forth in the whole movie. Soon to become famous, the band members were torn to pieces, swearing at the magazines that came to interview, and chanting every day that these live games would be dissolved after they were finished.
The protagonist of this movie is two women and a man, as if telling a love triangle story, but after watching it, you find that everyone seems to love and hate the other two people at the same time. They are just endlessly entangled and confused, and no one wants to fall in love with anyone.
One of the two girls in the band is gay. You preset a literary or bitter story, but none of their stories can be pasted on any template.
Finally, you think this is a youth pain film. After these boys and girls who smoke every day are about to go to the end of the world and continue to work in the factory, just like they had a dream, the tone of the film turned around again, and the last scene was inspired by youth.
So what is this movie really about? What does it bring to the audience? What expectations should I have to understand this story?
In fact, these three songs that run through the whole film are the answers.
In this film, the song "Goodbye, Lips" plays the main theme of emotional tone. It not only sings the story of two girls, Haru and Leo, but also sings the logic of the relationship between two women, Haru, Leo and Zhimo, and a man.
The feelings in my heart can't be conveyed and no one responds. It's good to keep this thorn in my heart and taste the pain all the time.
There are three "goodbye lips" in the movie, and what moved me the most is Reo's kiss to Haru (Nana Komatsu's long hair here is really beautiful).
We are used to the story of the sexual minority waiting silently and painfully, but here we let the heterosexual one, the Reo who wants to love and be a fool, kiss him and say, "I want to be forced."
But Haru pushed her away, because it was a good thing to keep this thorn in my heart.
The other time was Reo's kiss to Shima.
From the first time they met, Haru said with a little jealousy that it was forbidden to fall in love within the team. Maybe it's Haru's nervousness. Maybe this feeling has been buried. But because Shima loves Haru, Reo can't get his response.
Reo is the most innocent and pure of the three. She kept saying "What's wrong with being a fool" and asked others to love or hurt themselves completely voluntarily.
Haru and Zhimo, two black and blue people, tried again and again to make Reo learn the logic of "goodbye, lips" taught by adults, so that she could only bury her love in her heart and live painfully day by day.
On another occasion, Shima kissed Haru.
Haru has always had a painful idea that Reo will be with Zhimo sooner or later. Both of them like each other and have no barriers to secular prejudice. But in the end, Zhimo confessed to her, but she felt sympathy and comfort.
I like this seemingly absurd love triangle very much. Everyone in it follows the rules that only they understand. They are intertwined as three souls, not one homosexual and two heterosexual. For the three of them, such a label is not important.
I like the film's treatment of sexual orientation very much. I think sexual orientation, like any label, will be torn off in the end. Everyone in the world is just a different individual, and all kinds of labels are just for laziness. People can't be classified like garbage.
I like Reo because I like and appreciate Haru so much that I want to do something for her. I said, "I want to force myself" and kissed it. I like to kiss Haru when Shima says painfully, "I will be sad because of you". I like that Haru said, "You will only make me feel sorry" and pushed Zhimo away, instead of declaring that he is gay and can't kiss men.
I like that the three of them have gone beyond the boundaries and established tracks and become complex and chaotic "people".
I also like them in love. I enjoy the happiness and pain brought by love every minute. I don't pursue any results for myself, I just want others to be happy.
This is my personal favorite song in this movie.
When there are emotional entanglements in the play, the band sings "Goodbye, Lips", and when the three encounter a trough, they will sing this song.
In the first half of the film, an idea that has been lingering in my mind is: How can there be such a bad band?
They are far apart from each other. They sang quietly after they came on stage. A second ago, they were arguing with each other backstage. Isn't it a deception to the fans under the stage?
They are such a group of people living in a dark corner, a retired cowherd and two girls working in a factory. Even if they form an underground band, have their own album and a group of fans, their fate and lifestyle will not change.
They live in pain, lighting a cigarette impatiently before each opening, constantly hurting others and being hurt by others.
They clearly said they wanted to be popular, but when interviewed by a magazine, they left because the other party didn't understand themselves. They clearly know that the band will only continue to work in the factory after dissolution, otherwise they will not hesitate to dissolve.
But as this song was sung over and over again, I gradually understood.
These seemingly surly, withdrawn and decadent people also have their reasons. They sing this song for some reasons. They don't seek other people's understanding, but suffer silently and happily in their own way.
Compared with them, we seem to be healthier and sunnier. Of course, we have the same good reason to live.
I like this pessimistic optimism.
This song is the only "positive energy" song among the three songs. As if afraid that the audience could not see the optimistic core of the film, the ending suddenly reversed and a song was re-matched.
Yes, we can get out of the existing track, although "derailment" seems to be a big deal for us now.
We hope to have a stable and high-paying job. Even in 1996 and 2007, these three people in the movie were unwilling to go on even if the band broke up hungry.
We hope to have a lasting love, but everyone in this movie is pursuing the impossible. Gays fall in love with heterosexuals, heterosexuals fall in love with homosexuals. Even if you love each other deeply, if you can't make them happy, you will refuse.
We wanted to succeed, but Harureo, a band, broke up when it was unhappy. If it doesn't like the reporter's questions, it will refuse to interview. Even if it doesn't know where the next meal is, it can continue to be willful and go back to work in the factory.
I know all this is too idealistic. However, after watching the so-called positive energy full of struggle and success, we also need to water our hearts and catch our breath in the gap of life.
Perhaps the greatest value of this film is to tell us that even if life is so bad and completely out of the track of successful life, you can still have 100% pure joys and sorrows, and those feelings are the truly precious things to go to the world.