The routines of general romance films are to show us the process of the hero and heroine from acquaintance to falling in love. As for how to get along after falling in love, and how to break up because of the disappearance of love, it is rarely covered in classic genres. There is no doubt that the core of this genre of romance films must be love, the unswerving love of the hero and heroine. Even if the ending is not a happy ending, because of external forces or personality reasons, we will leave the audience with infinite sighs and regrets, and believe that although they are not together, they still love each other.
However, since the development of this genre, the audience's appreciation tastes are changing, the social environment is changing, and the mainstream views on love are also changing. It is difficult for us to imagine that in the international metropolis New York, where the divorce rate remains high, and being single, dating, and messing around are common phenomena, two people can fall in love at first sight, and then overcome all kinds of difficulties and insist on true love and finally live happily together. life.
This is why the current urban romance films often start with "Lovelorion", "Ex-boyfriend/Girlfriend" and "Blind Date". It has a more sense of substitution, attracts more attention and resonates, and is closer to this era when pure love is hard to find.
Good people do good deeds can no longer satisfy the audience, bad people do good deeds are more touching.
In the same way, simple young people are too naive to fall in love. Time has changed, mature men and women who have experienced the scorching world and the warmth of human relationships, have seen through what love is, have been fooled and hurt, but still believe in true love and choose true love. Satisfy your current audience!
How to reminisce the beauty of past relationships with a healthy and upward attitude, to calmly accept betrayal and separation, how to get out of depression, depression and doubt, and meet the pursuit of a new love life, this is probably the most concerned about single men and women in the metropolis Also the most sympathetic proposition.
This film provides a good case for us to learn from.
Everyone has a history of love, but how to tell it in an engaging and thought-provoking way is a difficult problem.
First, there needs to be a suitable opportunity to recall.
Generally, screenwriters can easily think of class reunions and reunion of old friends, which opens up the dusty past and leads to an unforgettable love. Or it was an accidental incident, I saw an item left by an old friend, or there was news about an old lover in the media, so I started to recall the past with him/her...
What method did this film use? ?
Very powerful, it chose a special day - after school on the first day of her daughter's school's physiology and hygiene class, the male protagonist who was about to divorce went to pick her up after get off work. The daughter's curiosity and cross-examination forced him to take a convenient way. From a child's understanding and pure perspective, re-examine the sex, marriage, and love of men and women, and then tell them to their daughters. This is one of the most brilliant parts of the whole film (and one is the ending, which will be discussed below), and this opportunity was chosen brilliantly!
In the process of telling the daughter, the daughter's reactions and guesses, as well as the daughter's perceptual feedback on this, were inserted many times, which gave ordinary love stories a unique sense of alienation and fate. In other words, we know that some people are destined to be impossible to be a couple. No matter how sweet the love is, they will eventually be separated, even if they are married and have children. And the reason that made them separate is not from outside, but because the parties themselves do not love. This reveals the common problems of people living in big cities in love, which is very representative.
When we are sad because of this discovery, and we cannot predict how the story will end in order to provide a soothing answer, an important "prop" in the front - the book given to her by the heroine's father plays a role. That's another great thing I mentioned earlier.
Generally, when the script is developed, the film will set a biography of the characters. Some people with strange characters are often designed to have childhood shadows, or their parents are divorced, or their parents have lost their parents. But this only has a certain explanatory effect on the characterization, and does not help the plot development. And this design is very old-fashioned, and you have to think of something new to use it well. In this film, this old-fashioned design is used very cleverly.
Because the heroine lost her father as a teenager, she has always kept the habit of collecting second-hand books of "Jane Eyre" in various versions. From the very beginning, she and the hero were tit for tat, and later became close friends who talked about everything. The turning point was because of the hero. Seeing those books at her house, she told him about this sad experience. Her father passed away soon after giving her the collector's edition of Jane Eyre, and the book was accidentally lost during a move. After that, I bought Jane Eyre whenever I saw it, hoping to find the precious "gift" she lost.
After losing a relationship, the male protagonist came across this book while shopping. It was the female protagonist who lost it. He realized that the person he really liked was her, and he bought the book to confess to her. As a result, I went to her house and met her new boyfriend, so I left in a daze, and the book was not sent out.
Many, many years later, the male protagonist got married and had a baby and was going to divorce. When he was packing his belongings, he rediscovered the book, so with the encouragement of his daughter, he found the book and returned it to her. The female lead was angry at why he didn't give it at the time. We lay people might think that the male lead couldn't pick up the girl, so we didn't want to give a gift, but the answer from the male lead was a touching one!
"This is the only thing I can leave about you." This line, this design, is so awesome!
In the end, after so many years of missing each other, the two still came together. All this can be summed up as: lovers are married. But this way of telling is too delicate, slowly, with various plots, telling you bit by bit.
The subject matter of this film is not surprising, but because of its special perspective and ingenious structure, it has become a good genre masterpiece.
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