Chapter 313: The Restlessness of the Star
"The rings of time grow outward in circles, and with the gradual enrichment of memories, we are all slowly vicissitudes. Life is moving forward on a continuous path, and many people are hurrying forward, either pursuing their ideals, or going with the flow, and being at peace with what happens. Some people may occasionally stop and look back at the road they have traveled, but only wave their hands and continue walking. It wasn't until a guy named "Qin Xuan" wrote down his youth and photographed it for us to show that we found that the past days can make us a little moved now.
So I watched "Those Years" under the strong recommendation of a friend, it has no unexpected plot, and there is no romantic courtship offensive that is too romantic to work, and some are just the emotional process of a naïve boy to a girl who has insisted on for many years. It can create an amazing box office of more than 100 million yuan in four days, it has a unique small and fresh style of Taiwanese films, there is no complicated plot, there are no famous actors, the director has never even made a film, the details seem rough and immature, only a hot heart is burning, but it can gently stir up the ripples in our hearts, impacting the softest place in our hearts - the passing youth.
After watching the movie, I was inexplicably moved, and I was infected by such a kind of inseparable feeling. "Those years" has become synonymous with people's memories of youth, it is not a specific time, not a specific place, not a specific person, but a period of time. A day when I think of it, I will cry, I will laugh, I will hide my face and sigh, I will regret it, I will cry, I will scold, or I will be calm. But it deserves to be remembered, and it deserves to be called "those years".
The film chooses love, and what is worth remembering in those years may be more about love and the friendship associated with it. And in the film, the degree between the two is just right, the love description is too much and it is easy to be too charming, and the friendship is too much and too much is easy to be too much. Tell the story bit by bit. Student days are the times that people often miss, when the dream is big, love is immaterial, friendship is pure, every day in addition to studying, is the object of secret coveting, some people keep this secret until the end of their lives, some people boldly reveal it, and all this is so clean.
The arrangement of the story is not so exciting, it can be said that it is a flow and a routine, the person he loves finally entered someone else's marriage hall, but the ending does not give people a sense of lamentation, but makes the audience smile, when Ke Teng kisses the groom, it can be seen that he is eager for the bride's love, he is full of anger on the surface, but when he and the heroine release the wishing lamp together at Christmas, Jiayi "Do you want to tell you my answer" , he chose not to say it, because he was afraid of rejection, and if he didn't ask, there would be no answer, and there would be no way to explain whether he agreed or disagreed, which is "naïve" in a line that often appears in the film. And this kind of naivety is so valuable.
The story that happened in the 90s has a special imprint of the times and regional memories. When Ke Teng and Jiayi were admitted to different universities, the queue for phone calls every night may be resonant even in college love in Chinese mainland, and the upgrading of technology has replaced the expectations and waits between lovers, narrowing the distance between time and space, making the contact of love please more efficient, but also making it lose quickly. The conversation between Ke Teng and Jiayi on the phone is not as lingering as other men and women in love, but dull, or "childish". At the welcome party, I was afraid that Jiayi would be chased if she was too outstanding, so I didn't want her to dance, because "although I haven't caught you yet, I can't let other boys hold your hand." Straightforward expression, with male instinctive possessiveness and a boy's temper.
There is a beginning and an end, life begins like this, and love is no different. And love comes to an end because of too little understanding, which is manifested in quarrels again and again, whether to redeem it, whether it will be redeemed, and who will redeem it first has become an unsolved question left to us by this film, but the development of the story has imperceptibly solved this question.
The loss of love can be somewhat sad, and Kirten conveys the news to all his good friends. It seems that it is really "the girl we chased together", and now that I am done chasing it, it is your turn, love is not a game, and life is even more so. After "sharing" the news with his friends, his friends launched an offensive, and Minghe (Hao Shaowen) held hands with Jiayi, just like he said, "This time I want to take advantage of people's danger." Minghe, has always been a representative of mature and stable realism, only real good friends can say this in the face of love, and only when it is really in the face of true love will there be such a naïve confession. He did, he took Jiayi's hand and began to plan the future of the two, he didn't, and they broke up five months later.
The love of friends did not tarnish the memories of the past love, and did not make the brothers turn against each other, but we saw everyone continue to struggle and dream and chase on their own paths. Until the 32-year-old Ke Teng and this group of "cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods" participated in Jiayi's wedding, the friends who had passed the year gained not only the stability of their careers and social status, but also their eternal friendship, and their understanding and cherishing of love
The final scene is a moment of tears. In the end, the hero and heroine are still not together, and the last kiss designed by the director only exists in Ke Teng's imagination to satisfy everyone's "prince and princess kiss plot". And as an audience, we are not disappointed, but more blessed. Bless them, bless them all those years.
"The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years" shows us the beauty of love, and different ways of expression, unlike the previous romance films that shouted some seemingly reasonable words like a declaration, or the ups and downs of the plot, the love of life and death between the hero and heroine, and so on. It finishes a story in depth, "girl" is just the beginning of "me" to chase, and the source of the progress of the story, which in turn triggered the beautiful youth memories of "those years". ”
The film critic's report was like igniting a gunsmoke, not only made everyone pay attention to it, but even some stars dressed up Qiao Zhuang and walked into the cinema to watch it, because they have now seen the popularity of those years, and they are very unfamiliar with such a theme, it is difficult to think of what made this movie such an achievement, so they couldn't help but be curious, and they came to dress up.
There was a long queue at the door of the cinema, so that these admiring stars couldn't help but be surprised, it had been released for a long time in those years, but now it seems that his popularity has not subsided, which makes them more determined to watch their impulse.