199 1 year, a large-scale manhunt in the name of health research was launched in the gay circle in Beijing, and the executor was the police of Xiangmin police station in the eastern suburb of Beijing. More than 50 homosexuals were arrested, interrogated, blood collected and surveyed by questionnaires. This incident, which was called "ridiculous" by Bird, the "sixth generation director", contributed to the appearance of the first gay film "East Palace and West Palace" in Chinese mainland. Bird's original idea was to make a documentary similar to his previous works, which gave a panoramic description of the original state of the gay community. This intention is also reflected in the film title: in the vocabulary of homosexuals in Beijing, "East Palace" and "West Palace" refer to two famous gay gathering places-the Working People's Cultural Palace on the east and west sides of Tiananmen Square and the public toilets in Zhongshan Park. This topic accurately summarizes the "characteristics of public toilets" of the homosexual subculture in China. However, after the screenwriter Wang Xiaobo participated in the scriptwriting, the panorama became a "duet": police and homosexuals, interrogation and confession, contest and communication. The exploration of observation not only touches the social level, but also goes deep into the psychological level of the characters. Beijing, a park (maybe "East Palace" or "West Palace"), at night. This park is a place for gay trysts. When Xiaoxue Dog, a policeman in the park police station, is bored and lonely at night shift, he will go to the park to arrest a gay man for interrogation and ask them to explain their "activities" to relieve boredom. It seems that he caught Allen on purpose that night, and Allen seems to be looking forward to being caught. Long after the incident, Alan sent a book to Xiaoshi with the title page printed: "For My Love". The miniature schnauzer opened the book and fell into memories. The story in the book was mixed with the events of that night. These stories include Allen's mother; There is a beautiful female classmate in the middle school class "bus" (that is, who falls in love with whom); There is also an ancient female thief who was chained by an official and stumbled in the snow. Allen also described several fragments of his homosexual life, all of which were humiliating or mean experiences. The miniature schnauzer made this judgment on Allen: You are a bitch. Unexpectedly, Allen also calmly accepted such an evaluation. He admitted that he was "cheap". Telling stories and teasing interrogators from time to time; Listening to stories is sometimes kind and sometimes violent. Interrogators and interrogators are in a delicate stalemate. This psychological war constantly changes the rhythm direction and adjusts the master-slave relationship like a duet tango full of sexual meaning. Unconsciously, the absolute authority of the police (a part of the state machine, the defender of ideology) was subverted by a gentle gay writer. The police are completely passive: the only way for him to maintain his authority is to abuse, but this is exactly what Allen wants-the abuser inadvertently plays the role that the abuser expects him to play, that is, the previously weak party occupies the dominant position in psychological warfare. At the end of the film, the miniature schnauzer has no choice but to use violence against Allen, but Allen looks like a winner after being insulted, while the miniature schnauzer looks puzzled, which is really ironic. The female thief was caught. The bus was caught. Allen was arrested by a mini schnauzer. Allen believes that "Bus" was arrested because of her beauty, gentleness and obedience. So in his mind, being caught has become synonymous with beauty, gentleness and obedience. The greatest beauty is to humiliate and destroy. Love should be punished. If there is no punishment at all, it is not love. Allen said frankly, "Death row inmates love executioners, female thieves love officials, and we love you. What other options are there? " S/M is the only form of love. Since you can't avoid sadism and get rid of the base name, then treat sadism as love. On the one hand, the S/M mechanism abides by the rule of domination/obedience dichotomy and takes pain as love, which is an unequal power pair. On the other hand, the abused and the abused are interdependent and cooperative. From this point of view, their status is equal. The memory and reading of Allen and his works in short stories show the confirmation of their relationship. The power contradiction in gender politics is the reflection of social politics in private life. Foucault believes that in The History of Sex and the Roots of Sexual Perversion, there is a voyeurism aimed at individuals in both authority and public psychology. In order to finally eliminate "sexual abnormality" (homosexuality), the authorities first need to expose it, which can be achieved by interrogating individuals. The listener (the holder of power) and the confessor get sexual excitement at the same time during the interrogation. When interrogating Allen, the miniature schnauzer likes to observe Allen from behind and out of the window through mirrors, screens and mosquito nets, which obviously means obscenity. In Allen's memory, all the men who had relations with Allen and the miniature schnauzer were played by the same actor, and the miniature schnauzer became Allen's imaginary lover, reflecting the weak's anti-control over power. Allen's memories and fantasies are embedded in the flashback framework of the short story, while another parallel story-the plot of a female thief and an official, that is, the story in Allen's novel that the short story is reading, is displayed on the screen in the form of Kunqu opera. This multi-layer narrative structure is very close to Puyg's kiss of the spider woman, another work involving homosexuality and power politics. Female thieves and officials are insinuations of Alan and Xiaoshi, and several movie stories told by the hero in kiss of the spider woman are all hints of reality. The difference is that in the mysterious image of Spider Woman, it is simple humanitarianism, while in the East Palace and the West Palace, there is more irony-the premise of irony is to distance itself from reality, and the virtuality of Kunqu Opera programs makes it possible. The female thief and the official are walking in the snow, but what they sing outside the painting is Bu Bujiao in the Garden, which describes the spring scenery: "The wind blows in the courtyard ..." In addition, there is an ironic contrast between the official disguised as a man and Allen, who was forced to disguise himself as a man-it is self-evident that cross-dressing distorts and subverts the relationship between gender and power. Bird's past works are often evaluated as "the controversy over the theme far exceeds his artistic achievements", and the great progress of East Palace and West Palace is largely due to the literariness of Wang Xiaobo's plays.