"If there are any literary and artistic works in recent years, which can easily make me cry, it is probably only "Those Years, The Girl We Chased Together", "Those Years" is a thorough story about the so-called love and friendship encountered in youth, the protagonist of the story is called Jin Xiashi, the same as when I was in high school, poor academic performance, like me in class, and I like to be noisy in class, and I am like to be considered hopeless by the teacher, so I am assigned to the corner of the frontier.

Of course, he is also proud and unyielding in his bones like me, and like me, he 'fights even when he is at a disadvantage'. He has a group of all kinds of friends, and they all like Yoo Yeon-hee, a girl who has made him qualitatively change, and has been secretly in love for 8 years, and has been tied for 16 years or more.

Kim Ha-seok is a smart, cynical person, and a person who 'works hard, even he will feel scared', he carefully analyzed Yoo Yeon-hee's psychology, as well as the characteristics and mutual relationships of many rivals, and formulated a perfect tug-of-war plan, which is eight years.

And Yoo Yeon-hee is mature, even perfect, she has excellent grades, a pleasant temperament, a gentle personality, and always calmly humorous and funny to Kim Ha-seok, and then says 'Why are you so naïve', she is so good that Kim Ha-seok can only say in the end that 'over the years, no matter how hard I try, I can only fight for an interesting draw'.

When I was in high school, the teacher put the naughty and noisy Kim Ha-seok in front of Yoo Yeon-hee, a good student.

The so-called one thing descends one thing, Liu Yanxi's mature temperament, completely restrained him, and they began to talk about everything, and became good friends, and he accompanied her to stay in school for self-study. Bet with her on the score of the exam, but didn't let her know what he liked her.

He defeated all his rivals in love and almost succeeded in walking with her, but unfortunately the good times didn't last long, and the two still missed each other after all.

After another eight years, both of them have an independent life, and the couples around them have also changed again and again. Suddenly, Yoo Yeon-hee calls Sù Kim Ha-seok to tell him the news of her marriage, and both of them become calm.

At the wedding, they watched the girl they once liked wearing a beautiful wedding dress. The groom is coming to maturity, so the train of youth finally slowly enters the platform.

It's a film that isn't really high. In the tide of movies, screenwriter Lee Jun-hee is just using his unique technique to tell a story that often happens around you and me, which is very plain, but very warm, and people can't help but be attracted and moved.

In love, you can spend all kinds of scheming. Use strategy to defeat your opponents, but it's important to be yourself, perhaps, the most important thing at all.

An eight-year-long favorite. It's hard to tell whether you like 'a person' or 'the feeling of liking someone'.

Jin Xiashi, this is a protagonist who everyone can easily find common ground in themselves, and always reminds people of their former selves.

A few days ago, in an article, I saw a sentence. It's very well said, every boy has a girl living in his heart, not in the place of love. But let him always remember, fuller than a lover, more solid than a friend, that is a bond.

Maybe because I haven't been in love, I don't have a deep feeling for love, but I like a sentence in the movie very much, there are many things in life that are in vain. If, according to secular standards, love must have a result, then their love is also "in vain". But there are always a few things in life that do not seek results, or forget the results, and these are the treasures that make life shine. ”

Just like those who were interviewed after the movie ended, when the reporters returned to the office and started to catch up with the manuscript, they almost involuntarily used the keyboard and left their feelings after watching the movie in the document.

Delete and start over, what the editors-in-chief need is not their movie impressions, what they need is how many stars attended the premiere of the movie, the attendance rate in the cinema, and some digressions around the movie, such as the box office expected by the creators, and the scandals of the heroes and heroines!

But when I came back and found that the words that came out of the code were still the same, and finally the reporter understood that everyone has youth, and everyone has memories of youth, and when these memories come to mind like a tide, it is not possible not to vent them!

As for the manuscript that the editor-in-chief needs tomorrow, how about love, so be it!

Lao Tzu is also going to be like Jin Xiashi today, regardless of the naivety!

This is not an isolated case, the same thing is happening at the same time to different journalists, who are all planning to be as naïve as Jin Xiashi today.

As for tomorrow, in the face of the editor-in-chief's anger, they will also be like Jin Xiashi, shouting at the high-ranking editor-in-chief: "You are a rotten person!" ”

Reporters were moved and resonated with this movie, and those professional film critics were even more so, after "The Little Thing of First Love", they rarely found a small fresh movie with the same type of theme, but it can also move them.

There are no gorgeous big scenes, and the tone of the movie is bland from beginning to end, but it touches them endlessly, especially the love depicted in the movie.

Love is the eternal theme of the world, it is like a mimosa, blooming in the most prosperous youth of people, inadvertently withering and decaying.

When the red apple in the shot appeared next to the desk in the sun, when the textbook on the desk showed the youthful and frivolous graffiti with the caress of the breeze, when the school uniform with dense blue fountain pen marks on the back was quietly hung on the hanger, Jin Xiashi faced the mirror and tied his tie and put on a suit, people seemed to see themselves who were about to grow up soon.

I can't help but sigh, it turns out that youth is so short.

When the young and arrogant Jin Xiashi sat in front of Yoo Yeon-hee, a class flower with excellent character and learning, for the first time, he probably didn't know that this moment of retrospective eyes had tied him up all his life.

The film was not publicized before its release, and there were no celebrities to help it, so it stands to reason that it is difficult for such a small production to break out of the encirclement among many large productions, especially when it was released at the same time, and there are strong opponents like "Monster of the Han River" with Hollywood special effects labels.

But "Those Years" did just that, with more than 300,000 viewers on the first day, and its success lies in the fact that as a screenwriter, Lee Jun-hee used a simple approach to write a young man who could arouse all the post-80s and post-90s. A poignant love story that resonates.

Its success lies in every line of the leading actor, the feeling of every heartbeat, and the small fresh effect of the backlit shooting, but also in the fact that it tells a real and down-to-earth campus love.

Everyone knows that the most sincere love is the person you fell in love with in middle school, because you have not been infected by the copper stench in the outside world on campus, and you are the freshest and purest each other in your eyes, without too many conflicts of interest, just pure desire to be with each other.

The love on the middle school campus is the most precious thing in life, and if you miss it, you will never come back.

It's like being in Jingcheng Middle School. In the classroom full of soft light, Liu Yanxi used a blue ballpoint pen to poke Jin Xiashi who was sitting in front of her and fell asleep, she studied well, she could ignore Jin Xiashi at the end of the crane, but she just refused to give up the big boy in front of her with an unruly personality, she believed that as long as he was willing to work hard, he could get good grades.

Perhaps since then, love has quietly dripped into Yoo Yeon-hee's psyche like a speck of ink.

Love. It will make the two of them change, and when they don't have an intersection with Yoo Yeon-hee, Kim Ha-seok just thinks Yoo Yeon-hee is an old-fashioned personality like the other boys in the class. A beautiful girl who can only read, he didn't really like Yoo Yeon-hee at that time, he was just curious.

For Yoo Yeon-hee, when there was no intersection with Kim Ha-seok. Her heart can be said to be locked, she is the first in the class, and she is burdened with too much pressure from the teacher to study. But since she started tutoring Jin Xiashi. Her personality began to change subtly, and she slowly learned to open up to others, and gradually integrated into Jin Xiashi's circle.

And Jin Xiashi is slowly no longer as confused about the future as before, and has nothing to do all day long, he has a goal, and he sees hope and responsibility from Yoo Yeon-hee.

One is a good girl with excellent character and learning, the other is a boy who is cynical and has no goals, they were originally two people with very different personalities in different worlds, but they inadvertently have many common memories, she forgot to bring her textbooks in English class, he quietly handed her his own, but he was punished by the teacher to jump and squat, on a rainy night, he rode to the barber shop in order to make her laugh, and got a super handsome bald haircut, she poked him with a pen during class, and he tacitly handed her the exam papers.

When people see these details, their thoughts will drift back to a place in the depths of their memory, where there are also desks and textbooks, but they have been dusted.

There are too many misses and helplessness in life, and I still remember a sentence I once read: Many years later, the person standing next to you who is about to spend your life with you is still the person you expected at the beginning?

The beauty of this movie is precisely reflected in the ending of Kim Ha-seok and Yoo Yeon-hee, which is not as happy as most Korean dramas, and the love in reality is unreal, in the passage of time, the original love may still be there, but because of a miss, it can no longer be said.

Perhaps only that kind of imperfect regret will be cherished forever, and sometimes, love is good in the heart, and it doesn't have to be said.

Just like Jin Xiashi in college, looking up at the bright moon in the night sky on the other end of the phone, he said to Yoo Yeon-hee, who was also looking up at the starry sky, on the other end of the phone: Do you believe that there is a parallel time and space, I believe that in another time and space, we are together.

At the end of the film, the love buried in Jin Xiashi's heart was expressed in a humorous way, the groom who was pressed under Jin Xiashi and kissed him, and Yoo Yeon-hee, who was wearing a wedding dress, smiled moistly at the corner of his eyes.

I'm married, and the groom isn't you!

It was a kind of helpless smile with relief, because they both understood the world in their hearts, and the two of them were still the bad boy who didn't study well, and the good girl who studied well.

A thousand words are only turned into one sentence: Then I will continue to be naïve!

We didn't have time to lament the naivety and sweetness of youth, but we found that we had inadvertently lost that most beautiful time.

Praise, all praise!

On the second day of the movie's release, when the number of moviegoers on the first day was counted, the whole of Korea went crazy because of "Those Years", and "Monster of the Han River", which was released at the same time, could only be relegated to second.

There is no doubt that the NRG company has won again this time, or by a small margin. Or a big win!

The second day, the third day, and the next week, as long as the movie "Those Years" was screened, the theater was full, and not only that, but there were also long queues at the entrance of every movie theater, although they had other options, even though the big production "Monster of the Han River" was shown next door. But people are still willing to wait, waiting to see the rare good movies in the mouths of friends around them, "The Girls We Chased Together in Those Years".

And after watching it, everyone gets the most touched, and every audience can find themselves in "Those Years", especially the boys, just like the monologue of the male protagonist Jin Xiashi in the movie "There is a fat man in every story".

Of course, many people should rejoice. Fortunately, he is not a fat man, but there is also a fat man in their story.

That fat man is honest and smart. Very kind, sometimes bullied, as long as you see him, he is eating. Or on the way to eat.

There is always a handsome, naughty, and absolutely unconventional ignorant and fearless second B teenager in the class. Narcissism is extraordinary.

Of course, there is also a buddy who looks very obscene.

Similarly, around a beautiful girl, there will always be a very ordinary sister, and a very poor, self-righteous female teacher, who generally teaches English, because she knows foreign languages, so she is pretentious, and there is a time, or a few times, in order to find out who has done something bad, and the evening when the whole class is delayed from school.

In those years, riding a bicycle, chasing all the way to school, not taking classes properly, and the way to make friends was to prank on friends, be punished collectively, graduate, and then go to college and go their separate ways.

Of course, the most important thing is that there will always be a girl that all the boys are chasing.

People's youth are similar, so "Those Years" will have a moving truth, Lee Jun-hee through the text, creating a feeling, that feeling is easy to make people think that what is said in the movie is true.

Moreover, what is said in the movie is indeed true, because it happened to almost every contemporary, or at least in fragments. Lee Jun-hee used a truth to talk about the youth of a generation.

Although many viewers knew what the actor would do when they watched the movie, when he did it, they were still shocked.

Obviously, it's the resonance that makes this movie win.

A good movie doesn't need to pile up too many visually impactful shots, and it doesn't need to be clever special effects, because people go into the cinema to see the story, and what they want most is a story that makes them feel real, and preferably resonates.

"In Those Years, the Girls We Chased Together" successfully did this, which is why the low-cost "Those Years" was able to emerge when facing the strong enemy "Monster of the Han River".

In the face of a movie that can evoke memories, touch people's hearts, and resonate with people, even the most critical film critics can't say "bad" with a clear conscience, although their profession is destined to wear colored glasses when watching every movie, ready to pick bones in eggs at any time, but this time, they rarely keep the same.

Countless praise articles came into being, and countless praises flew to the movie "Those Years" for a while, and "Monster of the Han River", which invested dozens of times that of "Those Years", was doomed to tragedy.

probably gave too much praise to "Those Years", which made these professional mouth cannons a little uncomfortable, and they urgently needed to find a target, vent well, and prove their professional ethics, so "Hanjiang Monster" couldn't even lie down if he didn't want to.

With an investment of tens of millions of dollars, a special effects team from Hollywood, and actors who are both popular and powerful, but the overall content, to be honest, many plots are illogical, and the tone of the movie feels very depressing, even in the end, people don't feel the joy of reunion, and they are still depressed.

People spend money to go to the cinema to relax, but they watch a movie that makes people depressed from the beginning to the end, and compared with the relaxed tone, the warmth alone, and the unforgettable touching of "Those Years", it is the big investment "Monster of the Han River" that has fallen behind.

Sometimes, public opinion is very important, and now the situation is obvious, countless film critics have rave reviews for "Those Years", and "Monster of the Han River" is very detractors, and it also directly affects those who have time to go to the cinema.

"Those Years" is full of people, and the attendance rate of "Monster of the Han River" has gradually fallen to half percent, so the number of films in "Those Years" is getting higher and higher, businessmen are heavy on profits, and it is stupid to make money or not, seeing that "Those Years" is a hen that only lays golden eggs, who wants to continue to hold the monster's stinky feet!

People in the film and television industry are beginning to be confused, what made "Those Years" gorgeous and killed "Han River Monster"?

What else is there besides resonance?

You know, campus-themed movies have always been very niche in the Korean film and television market, but why did NRG succeed twice in a row?

Some people have even begun to study the filming techniques of the movie "Those Years", hoping to find the answer from it! (To be continued......)