'Your Name Engraved Here' - Taiwan gay film's hs and miss :: Bay Area Reporter

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• TAIWAN’S GAY ROMANCE ‘YOUR NAME ENGRAVED HERE’ REFLECTS CHANGG TIM
• 'YOUR NAME ENGRAVED HERE' - TAIWAN GAY FILM'S HS AND MISS

TAIWAN’S GAY ROMANCE ‘YOUR NAME ENGRAVED HERE’ REFLECTS CHANGG TIM

Its sensual filmmakg is on par wh recent, acclaimed queer movi om the Wt, but is bogged down by remrs of homophobia Sensualy. A-Han’s perceptn of the world is important, not jt bee he’s gay, but also bee he’s 1980s Taiwan. Homophobia Remas.

Durg the ssn, Father Oliver expectedly reb A-Han’s feelgs for Birdy wh homophobic soundb, while A-Han screams back anguished, self-pretg cri. While die Wtern cema has largely moved to the post-gay era—gayns fed by a shg of the shoulr, not stggle and ancy—Your Name Engraved Here still has to proclaim loud jtifitns of gayns, still feels the need to argue for the righteons of gay love.

While Taiwan pris self on beg the first untry Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, Liu’s urge to fend gayns shows there is still a populace to be the nservative-md are unlikely to tune to an explicly gay romance. The reeratn of homophobic views and the trma origated om gayns are csant and make the film difficult to Reverberatns. Wh lyrics of sponnt self-reflectn, the song mak feel the characters’ pa, and s lite falsetto reflects their agile, wound the song’s symbolic qualy exceeds s craft; jt as is important to have a gay versn of You Are the Apple of My Eye and Our Tim, is important to have a gay versn of those movi’ h songs.

'YOUR NAME ENGRAVED HERE' - TAIWAN GAY FILM'S HS AND MISS

Gay listeners now have a h of their own, and straight listeners who have fallen love wh the song are now sgg about a love story wrten as homosexual, advertently or not.

Wh the power of art, the song’s creative team has sublimated gay sire to the mastream nscns. Boys’ Love, a genre of homoerotic fictn that panrs to fujoshi women and has bee wildly popular across Asia.

That means do not turn gay timacy to a spectacle for a straight dience’s gaze, but sensually explor the pleasure and pa of g of age, gay, 1987 Taiwan. A semi-tobgraphy based on the experience of gay director Patrick Liu Kuang-hui (22nd Catch), Your Name Engraved Here was produced by Arthur Chu Yu-ng (It Started Wh A Kiss, In Time Wh You), and -wrten by both story follows two teenagers who fall love at a boardg school jt as martial law is lifted Taiwan 1987 after 38 (Edward Chen) and Po-te (Tseng Jg-hua), who lls himself Birdy after the tle of the Nilas Cage movie, explore their relatnship while stgglg wh their gay follows the teachg of their Canadian school prit and mic teacher, Father Oliver (Fab Grangeon) – profer du moment, or “live the prent” – and wants to take his relatnship wh Birdy also:The real events that spired Your Name Engraved HereCheng Yu-chieh, director of Dear Tenant, hop to dispel homophobiaThe stars of Netflix mil The Prom are glad to champn queer clivyBut Birdy, though a ee-spired aspirg filmmaker, fds more difficult to e out and acknowledge that he is gay (or bi?