ユートピア

ユートピア (2015)

同流合烏

もしも、自分の恋人が突然、同性愛に目覚めてしまったら…

大学生のヒンスとその彼女のジョイは赴任してきた古代ギリシャ文化の教授ミンと出会った。ミンは第一声で「ゲイの学生は手を挙げて。」と言い、「私はゲイです。」と続けた。そして背後のスクリーンに映し出されたのはミンと男性が裸で抱き合う写真。教室はざわめきに包まれる。カソリックのジョイは露骨に嫌な顔をして教室を出ていく。しかし、ヒンスは戸惑いながらもミンに惹かれていく。ヒンスが傾倒する三島由紀夫の話で意気投合し、いつしかヒンスとミンはお互いを求め合う。しかし、それは香港では法を犯す行為であった……。

公開日
2015-11-01
TMDB
4.4 / 10 (15)
上映時間（分）
1時間34分
ジャンル
コメディ, ドラマ, ロマンス
監督
云翔

キャスト

豆知識

Utopians is a 2015 film by the Hong Kong filmmaker Scud, the production-crediting name of Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung. It is the story of a university student who becomes deeply attracted to his male professor, and whose life changes as a result. The film received its world premiere on 31 October 2015 at the New Directors Film Festival in Japan.

Production

Utopians explores several themes traditionally regarded as "taboo" in Hong Kong society and features full-frontal male nudity in several scenes. It is the sixth of eleven publicly released films by Scud. The other films include: City Without Baseball (2008), Permanent Residence (2009), Amphetamine (2010), Love Actually... Sucks! (2011), Voyage (2013), and Thirty Years of Adonis (2017) (which features footage from Utopians).

The uncut version of Utopians includes a scene in which the main character, played by mainland China actor Adonis He Fei, is shown completely naked stroking his erect penis as he sighs with pleasure until he ejaculates.

The film's director, Scud, says that he drew inspiration for the film from the writings of Plato and the culture of Ancient Greece, which he describes as the "best era of mankind" when being gay was mainstream. On the film's themes, Scud stated that "the dream of a utopian life" is one where education "serves to enhance love instead of forbid it", and that this became clear to him ever since he was aware of the sexual alternatives available.

Scud says that he fell into depression after making his fifth film, Voyage, and was considering ending his career. But one day a 19-year-old boy came to him and talked about his story of having fallen in love with a policeman, and about a Japanese writer whose work Scud had read extensively when he was younger. After this, he felt his next film should pay tribute to the period of enlightenment brought about by great philosophers and artists.

According to the director, Utopians took only weeks to write and shoot. Scud also experimented with a more "democratic" method of filmmaking by consulting the cast on the roles they most preferred to take and encouraging them to resolve matters among themselves, much like conflict resolution in ancient times.

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