Pleased alone? Depressing boys in East Eastern gay movie theater
This essay selects as its texts three movies representing contemporary gay male topics from each of the \"3\" China's: HK, Taiwan, and also the Mainland. Transferring the homoerotic picture of the \"depressing boy,\" a trope preferred from Hollywood disobedience films of the 1950s as well as 1960s, to modern China, I review exactly how this masculine icon has actually been changed from among brave disobedience to among existential isolation. Indeed, as the national politics of both the outmoded Confucian family and fractured Chinese nationhood intersect, what the sad young (gay) man rebels against is a political fluctuation which is no longer taken care of; as the young man's opposition is no more fixed, so also does he come to be alienated also from his very own rebellious cause.
