A satirical, realistic stage play
这篇影评可能有剧透
寒假里看到的一场精彩绝伦的舞台剧。神仙剧本覆盖了政治、宗教和种族歧视、同性恋等社会问题，以黑色幽默为基调，加上演员们深厚的表现力，把社会各阶层的大小人物的喜怒悲哀与生死别离演绎得淋漓尽致。
Thematic thoughts
It’s about:
"Gay Identity Anxiety" at All Levels of the United States” before the millennium. AIDS here as a metaphor, become an entrance to tear the dark reality of America.
Controversies of homosexuality and AIDS, Republicans and Mormons.
A game theory of love and prejudice, belief and doubt.
Through wonderful and ironic lines and metaphors, on the one hand, it reveals the social loneliness of homosexual patients and the persistence of not only discrimination against homosexual groups, but also all kinds of discrimination that flood the American society.
Impressing roles
Powerful lawyer who like to sodomize men obviously have fallen into AIDS, but because of social resistance to homosexual groups, he would rather declare that he has a liver cancer and would not admit his true condition.
The cowardly Jewish homosexual man has abandoned his loved one who was seriously ill. His absurd political and human rights speech cannot hide his deep sin.
In addition, young lawyer who is homophobic but does not know that he is actually closeted(深柜).
And his wife who suffers from an emotional illness who owns a magical fantasy world.
Garfield's interpretation in this play is full of the charm of combining rationality and sensuality. He is wonderful for the sadness and despair when a gay AIDS patient is abandoned. That kind of language and body language shows just the right hysteria. One more and one less will not be so perfect.
Several lines that impressed me:
Belize(黑人小哥）：
“Justice is simple, Democracy is simple, these things are unambivalent.
“正义很简单，民主很简单，这些东西从不纠结。
But love is very hard. And it goes bad for you if you violate the hard law of love.”
爱却很艰难，你要是违反了爱的严厉法则，就会受到惩罚。”
