At the same time that Lee Jun-hee's first SOLO album bombarded the major music charts in the Korean music industry, the third film directed by Park Jun-yong was also quietly released.

The reason why it is said to be quietly released is because there is nothing to promote at all, as early as when the movie started, those media who were unwilling to be lonely began to help with the hype, and people's expectations were getting higher and higher with the filming of the movie.

From the beginning of the filming of the movie to the release, various topics have not been interrupted, which has invisibly helped the film to do the best publicity.

When the filming of the movie was completed and the post-production was completed, the two major theater chains in South Korea took the initiative to contact the release business, and Park Junrong only took a few main actors of the movie to run a few variety shows to complete the publicity work.

Finally, a week after Lee Jun-hee's album was released, "To Our Dying Youth" was released at the same time in two major theaters in South Korea, and other films could only avoid its edge and postpone their releases.

People who have been waiting for a long time have walked into the cinema to watch the most anticipated film of the end of 2007.

On the first day of release, Park Junrong was still a little worried, after all, the style of this movie has changed a lot in style compared with the previous two small and fresh works, and it is still a question whether the audience can accept it.

However, when the statistics of the number of moviegoers on the first day came out, all the worries were unnecessary.

Although there are some voices that sing and decline, but in the rave reviews, these voices are immediately obliterated without a trace.

99.9 percent of the people who have seen this movie have praised this movie word by word!

"Excellent! Jung so-yeon played by Han Hyo-joo XI is so handsome! ”

"From these characters, I seem to see the shadow of me back then, and I feel empathy. When I got home, I couldn't help but feel the urge to cry when I remembered the characters and what happened in the movie, and then I thought about my youth! ”

"When I saw Han Jingen in a car accident, I couldn't control my tears at all. It's a pity that such a perfect girl ended her life in such a way! ”

"I like Lin Jingche played by Junxi OPPA very much, although I am a little dissatisfied with his evasion back then, but if it were someone else, would I be able to calmly accept the extramarital affair between my father and the mother of the woman I loved?"

"It's the first time I found that Qin Jiu's acting skills are so good, come on! Will continue to support you! ”

"After watching this movie, I suddenly felt a little regretful, because director Park Junrong had said before that this is the last part of his youth trilogy. It's a pity, I was looking forward to Director Park Joon-yong continuing to shoot movies with the theme of youth campuses, but it's over! ”

"I like Li Xiaoying played by Shen Zhi very much, I used to like Gao Yaotai's songs very much, and now it seems that being an actor Shen Zhi is not bad at all!"

"Five stars without saying anything, this movie is definitely worth the ticket price!"

"Excellent! The youth shown in the previous two movies is very beautiful. But prefer such a real, brutal youth. Because these are the things that happen around us, the people who appear around us, support! ”

There was a lot of applause on the Internet, and many people mentioned the words "real" and "youth", in fact, this is what Lee Jun-hee and Park Jun-yong want to show people the most.

Now it looks. And they did!

As the last part of Park Joon-yong's youth trilogy, this film is full of gold, and at the same time, the film's depiction of college campus life and scenes in South Korea in the early 90s has a great impact on people who went to college in that era and now. Because that's exactly what they've been through, people can't help but empathize when they see this scene being brought to the screen.

The first half of the film is almost colored in college years, and after entering the society, the film is rarely colored, Park Junrong uses the difference in color tones of these two completely different periods to show the audience the characters of the two periods, whether it is the difference in mentality or life situation. Compared to the colorful time in college, after entering the society, what everyone experiences is cruel.

However, the story in college is not so "cruel" that the color tone completely overshadows this "cruel" fact, and it is still a beautiful youth, they have secret love, pain, separation, confession, everyone's youth is nothing more than that.

This movie shows the quality of a professional director in all aspects such as shooting, editing, scene scheduling, etc., most people just treat it as a youth epic movie, saying it is sunny and colorful, but ignoring the film itself, in fact, it is not the style of a small fresh movie. Slice, play. Airplanes, poker games, group fights, abortions, drunken disorders. Sex is not only something that happens in the years of youth, but also when you enter society, just placed on a college campus to cast a veil of innocence under the original appearance.

The film depicts the cruel youth of the four girls with heavy brushwork, infatuation to betrayal, realistic material marriage, and hidden mental illness.

The group of female college students in the movie, everyone's youth story is so real, in that era, the college campus that everyone yearns for, the youth they experienced was not just some small fights, quarrels, and disputes, everyone's youth can write a novel, it is not simple.

First of all, the heroine of the film, Zheng Xiuyan, because of her young admiration, she came to the city where her favorite Lin Jingche is located to go to college, which originated from her original childhood wish, fantasizing about wearing crystal slippers and becoming a princess Living with Lin Jingche, how could she have expected that Lin Jingche avoided her for 7 years because of her father's "extramarital affair" with Zheng Xiuyan's mother.

Zheng Xiuyan is complicated, when she arrives in college and Chen Xiaozheng's love ends without a problem, she enters society, and her old lover and childhood sweetheart appear at the same time, all of which makes the character of Zheng Xiuyan full of tragedy, and Cinderella will never be able to wear a crystal slipper and be happily with her beloved prince.

Reality and fairy tales seem so irreconcilable. Because of love, even if Zheng Xiuyan is willing to endure hardships with the person she loves, she is disappointed because her boyfriend can't stand the poverty.

Han Jingen, a simple girl from a small city, has not left after experiencing the betrayal of her boyfriend and has come to society. found out that she was pregnant, but she had an abortion because of her boyfriend's cowardice, and finally went to her ex-boyfriend's appointment and suffered a car accident.

Park Ji-eun and Lee Xiao-young are much simpler than Jung so-yeon and Han Jing-eun. Park Ji-eun, like Jin Hyo-jeong, retains the most direct and snobbish idea, that is, "people go to higher places", so that when her hometown "boyfriend" comes to visit her, she will try her best to dissociate herself from him, and then marry a rich old man in his 50s.

Li Xiaoying, played by Shen Zhi, is very contradictory in itself, she does not look down on herself because her sister is a steamed bun seller. However. But because he was mistaken for a thief in the supermarket, he thought that he was insulted and smashed the supermarket. In the end, he was forced to drop out of school. Near the end of the film, when Li Xiaoying changed his name to Gao Ensheng and became a well-known expert in children's learning and tutoring, and when the rich son Xu Kaiyang communicated with him, he tried his best to dissociate himself from the relationship, I have to say that the character of Li Xiaoying does not rule out a certain pathology in spirit and character. The sudden violence, the subsequent change in composure, and the disconnection with the "past" can be seen as a hidden mental illness that is depressing.

The youth of these four girls. More or less imperfect, they all have different youthful pasts, or decadence, or confusion, or hardship, or sentimentality, however, all these are all a kind of youth syndrome of "youth".

It can be said that among these four people, the youth of Park Ji-eun and Lee Xiaoying is the most pure and simple "cruel", without the ordeal of love, some are only forced to drop out of school because of the outburst of personality, or the need to live the life of an upper-class person and marry a divorced old man.

And Zheng Xiuyan and Han Jingen, as the two core characters of the film, have experienced the most painful transformation process of women from youth to maturity, especially when Han Jingen was in college, because her boyfriend was drunk and messy. Sexually persuading the other woman to have an abortion, and then embarking on the road of abortion herself, and finally having a car accident, is actually a continuation of cruel youth.

The movie focuses on the audience through four girls and all kinds of people around them, and what is shown in front of the audience is the real youth, which is also Park Junrong After experiencing the fairy tale beautiful youth of "The Little Thing of First Love" and "The Girls We Chased Together in Those Years", in the last part, he completely returned to reality, and he showed the cruelest side of youth, without even making any embellishments.

Aside from the four girls who are the main line of the movie, the male characters in the movie are also impressive, and Lim Jingche, played by Lee Jun-hee, was killed by his father and Jung so-yeon's mother. love, and hid for 7 years, abandoning the Zheng Xiuyan he loved.

Qin Jiu played Chen Xiaozheng's motto "My life is a building that can only be built once, I must make it extremely accurate, and there can be no centimeter difference", and then abandoned his love because of his career.

These two boys were crippled in their youth, and when they had love, they gave up easily, and abandoned everything for the sake of their superiors.

Their existence sets off the romance of girls, and Han Jingen uses her practical actions to express the eternal decay of youth, which is in stark contrast to the boys' choices that lead to the end of love.

However, it has to be said that every man does not dare to assert anything that he can't give, and in the face of women's persistent pursuit, they can only choose to escape and miss the best time in their lives.

So Chen Xiaozheng will say that "people must first love themselves", he will think about "how can a person be so attached to a person", and every woman will have no IQ and no hesitation when she encounters love, but in the end, they will understand that "we all love ourselves more than love".

The whole film makes everyone who has experienced college begin to miss those youthful years, because they have also been stupid, tired, crazy, hated, and painful, but only in this way is true love.

When the scene of the university's casual dinner reappears, recalling the opening of that night, or the final confession and separation, I believe everyone will sigh for a long time, when people see the album posters of Xu Taizhi and the children in the university dormitory, or the scene of the mess in the boys' dormitory. Those green years immediately came to mind.

When Jung so-yeon used a K-POP song against the school leader's trot at the party, I couldn't help but ask, who is not so young and frivolous?

Although the film itself seems to be a bit out of place with the most mainstream film style in South Korea at the moment, it is undeniable that it is a successful work, at least from the audience to the cinema again and again. It is possible to draw such conclusions.

Why would people like such a movie that is not entirely Korean?

The answer is simple, it's a sense of substitution!

The sense of substitution, when many people watch this movie, they can feel a lot of throbbing from these 130 minutes.

The movie itself does not have a large anatomical dialogue to let the audience face the overly straightforward words of love and friendship, which not only does not make a drama, but appropriately neutralizes the crazy temperament brought by the role of Zheng Xiuyan because the directors are too strong, at least in reality, similar characters should be recalled. Not necessarily easy for most people.

In terms of emotional expression, this film has a relatively wide inclusiveness, and the respective experiences of the people in the play and their final life directions, although because of fiction, there is not much credibility of reality substitution, but the diversity of the characters' emotional expressions is extremely real.

In this respect, Park Junrong gives the film a unique female cinematic flavor, which includes subservience to reality. Stubborn and soft-hearted, persevere to the end, and so on. Just like everyone has experienced before, even if it has long been blurred, once it touches the sore spot, it is often embarrassing.

This may be the greatest value of this film for the audience, turn the page with you, count the years, and hang on to your youth.

So naturally. The male characters are basically uniformly placed in an embarrassing situation in the film: some people have a lifelong crush with bunches of stars, some people become humble supporting characters in the farewell moment, some people become the kind of people they once despised the most, and some people complete a woman's life in the compromise.

Is it fair? In the eternal emotional game between men and women, women are never less likely to be emotional victims than men. The way the film handles emotions is naturally understandable.

Therefore, men are also looking for memories in "To Youth", but what they want to get back first must be a selective good time, not a stupid lack of self-inflicted evil.

At the end of the day, when people watch this movie, the main thought is, what is youth?

For most people, youth is a garment with a gold dalee flower in the buttonhole of a shirt, a walk through the streets in full view of no one, and a complacent maverick.

Youth confessed to a girl at McDonald's, but was politely rejected, not because she was beautiful and cute, but simply because she was very chatty at the beginning of love.

Youth is in the evening self-study time of the third year of high school, singing in the corridor of the self-study room, being flattened by angry classmates, feeling humiliated and desperate because almost the whole school is watching, and listening to Xu Taizhi and the children's "Go Home" over and over again in the dead of night.

Youth is typing beautiful words on a soot-stained keyboard in a humble Internet café, imagining that he is a writer who will eventually become famous.

For the first time, I got myself drunk with soju with my roommates, and when I woke up, I had a large red rash on my back.

Youth is the first time to really fall in love with a girl, but he was confessed by his mother's colleague's son first, and he helplessly watched the fate of Eun-hee in "Blue Life and Death Love" and cried a lot.

It was the first time for youth to write a fairy tale and submit it to a magazine, and it was a joy to see his long essay printed in lead letters, and to get the sample and manuscript time.

If we are given a universal definition of youth, what should the youth of all people look like?

This is what "To Our Dying Youth" wants to tell people.

Youth obviously likes a boy, but at the beginning he felt that he hated him incomparably, and he wished that he was not under the same blue sky, until someone broke it, and then he mustered up the courage to pursue it.

Youth is playing poker on the surface, watching A. movies, being close to girls, hooligans, doing everything, but in the bottom of my heart, I always love someone deeply, even if I am the same as the stars that were given to her, I can only be a supporting role in love.

Youth is because of jealousy, looking for a crowd to beat up excellent roommates, but many years later, the class reunion is relieved of the previous suspicions and drinking and talking, as if the quarrel many years ago has never happened.

Youth loved a boy, and gave him a place to study abroad on the eve of graduation, on the condition that he broke up with his current girlfriend, but he didn't do his girlfriend, and everything he did was just because he cherished his talent.

Youth is sadness, sweetness, bitterness, laughter, tears, pure dripping, thick days that can't be dissolved, and the youthful times that can't be escaped, forgotten, and given up.

How many times have I blushed my eyes in my dream for the big exam, and when I woke up and looked in the mirror, that worried face was no longer the appearance of a student, yes, as the title of the film says, youth will eventually pass away, and we are all destined to never go back.

Youth is gone, washed prosperity, what is left?

However, once had, those years, are worth cherishing, why be sentimental.

Youth is just a lonely carnival, since it is a carnival, why should there be sacrifices. (To be continued......)