剧情介绍
An adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai's 1994 novel Funny Boy, the film centres on the coming of age of Arjie Chelvaratnam, a young Tamil boy in Sri Lanka who is coming to terms with his homosexuality against the backdrop of the increased tensions between Tamil and Sinhalese people before the breakout of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
Sri Lanka of the 70's and 80's. The elegant world of upper class Tamils, a minority group in a largely majority Sinhalese country. At 8, Arjie loves dressing up like a bride and acting out a bridal procession with his girl cousins. When he is discovered by the adults, he wonders why he's being called "funny", a word whose meaning he can't understand, though he knows it's a 'bad' thing. Arjie is taken up by his magnetic aunt Radha, who has just returned from Canada. Radha sees that Arjie is gay and is determined to protect him and build his self-worth. But her life gets complicated when she falls in love with Anil, a charismatic Sinhalese man. Their relationship crosses ethnic boundaries in a world that simmers with tensions between the Sinhalese and Tamils. Radha must choose between her family and her lover. Arjie, witnessing his aunt's journey, learns some bitter lessons about what is possible and not in the world. We flash forward to Arjie at 17, at a new school. There, Arjie falls ...
本来是为了女性研究这门课看的，结果发现里面涉及的加泰争端更能引起兴趣，就是性别议题和种族争端之间太割裂了，也没啥关联性
3.5
种族，信仰，宗教的分歧都在于对立面而产生了仇恨区别，如果有更大的包容心看待一切是否能活在更美好的世界。
最后的政治来的太突然，里面一开始对什么西方sexual freedom的向往，可能更加funny。或许导演想表达关于caste+gender的intersectionality，但是这点在Arjie身上体现得太不痛不痒，以至于两边的发展，都很莫名其妙。
海上火车在电影里穿梭而来，背着夕阳而去，但最终离去时坐上的却是飞机。
5.7
懷念斯里蘭卡被夕陽餘暉閃耀著的海平面，演員的表現很不錯，十分細膩，畫面也處理得很好。唯一的缺憾在於，同性題材內戰背景文化理念衝突其實應該更有發揮的餘地，可惜導演淺嘗輒止並未將戲劇衝突層層推進，所以感覺有點成為了各種controversial topics的堆砌。
成長，同性，家庭，種姓製度，包辦婚姻。真實的可怕，也真實的美好。
【Ava DuVernay的ARRAY有参与】。男孩成长与勇敢打开自己的出柜历程，和斯里兰卡长达二十多年的内战背后的动荡局势组成了一“小”一“大”，打开了这个有些特别的故事。选材的特殊性与历史背景的稀缺，还有履历算非常漂亮的Deepa Mehta，都没有为电影做出加分；反而本末倒置变得特别 “假“ 和“美式”。战火之中、戒备森严下的男主角自由自在地舞蹈唱歌，或是大胆亲热，缺乏紧张或是他所生长的背景的艰难性。它是一个拥有积极讯息的观看选项，但却不是部足以代表加拿大参加奥斯卡角逐的电影（尤其是横向比较去年的《安提戈涅》）。
谷歌上有2.18GB的资源，内嵌的英文软字幕可提取，字幕英语时有，泰米尔语时是内嵌的硬英文字幕。找到的给我点个赞吧！电影蛮不错的，讲的是僧伽罗人和泰米尔人之间的争斗，姑姑在火车上的经历还有妈妈贿赂警察那蛮真实的。两个族群之间互相厮杀。男孩喜欢上了同学却因为家人的原因，不得不拒绝了他（两个人是不同派别的人）。后面杰根告诉他行动可以带来勇气和自信，使得男主重新找回了勇气去表白，看到后面发现那帮人真的和土匪一样，直接就闯居民家里搜人。里面的同性算是个支线，主要还是讲政治方面的话题