The Ruined Map 燃烧的地图
Experimental Film
2023
The film presents a surreal and dreamlike narrative, blending Chinese, Japanese, and English. It opens with a train scene of Christmas fireworks, signaling an epochal shift, setting the stage for a narrative of disintegration and disorientation. The narrative fictionalizes a Chinese male navigating the impacts of Western pornography, eventually working as a pornography translator in Rotterdam. This character embodies the challenges of queer existence and the critique of normative and pharmacopornographic influences on masculinity, exploring themes of displacement, dysphoria, and resistance.
The film uses the imagery of bananas and twinkies to challenge stereotypes and express a nuanced critique of cultural and sexual inferiority. These symbols, animated to oscillate between inflated and deflated states, inhabit liminal spaces that evoke feelings of loneliness, desperation, and an intimate yet unsettling subversion of East-Asian stereotypes. Impossible clues guide the transition from subjective to planetary scale amidst linguistic instability, delving into the complexities of identity, masculinity, and cultural imposition.
这部电影呈现出一个超现实且梦幻般的叙事，融合了中文、日语和英语。它以火车场景中的圣诞烟花开场，预示着一个时代性的转变，为分解和迷失的叙事奠定基调。叙事虚构了一位中国男性，他面对西方色情作品的影响，最终在鹿特丹成为一名色情内容翻译。这个角色体现了酷儿生存的挑战，以及对规范和药理色情影响下的男性气质的批判，探索了错位、焦虑和抵抗的主题。
电影运用香蕉和Twinkies的意象来挑战刻板印象，表达对文化和性方面劣势的细微批判。这些符号在膨胀和萎缩状态之间摇摆，占据着临界空间，唤起孤独、绝望的感受，以及对东亚刻板印象的亲密而又不安的颠覆。在语言不稳定的环境中，不可能的线索引导着从主观到行星尺度的转变，探索了身份、男性气质和文化强加的复杂性。
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