"Single anxiety" is not a unique phenomenon in China. It also exists in other cultures, but the degree of stress and the way of expression are different. Some films about "single anxiety" were made heavily, such as the dystopian "Lobster", and some appeared brisk and urban, such as this "Guide to Singles." This is a new work by Christine Dieter, who has directed "Love, Rosie". Objectively speaking, it has no more connotations from the language of the film itself, unlike "Lobster", which has obvious ambitions, but for this reason, it will not appear too artificial. It only hopes to make more cities younger. The audience's emotions are substituting for themselves. The various emotional puzzles described in this movie have long surpassed New York, where the story took place, and made many single men and women floating in the city empathize.
"Single Guide" can be counted as a "chick film" in genre, a standard urban light comedy. Alice, Robin, Mei Ge and Lucy are all girls working hard in the city. In the face of love, they each have their own puzzles. Alice decided to "break up" with her college boyfriend who had been dating for four years, and went to New York by herself, trying to give this somewhat deteriorating love a chance to breathe; Robin is a heartless fat girl who stays in the same house during the day. The assistant at the bottom became a "party animal" in various nightclubs after get off work, waking up in the bedroom of different men every morning; Mei Ge was an obstetrician, but he hated marriage, but decided to have a child; and Lucy used social networking The website prays to meet the true emperor, but repeatedly fails. These people are confronted and confused in the emotional world, and they also support each other. They witness the friendship and become the contrast of each other.
From the perspective of the script, it is extremely clear and simple. It uses four girls to summarize the four urbanized love values: yearning, hedonic, fearful, and pragmatic. This movie has become a kind of "love sampling". However, these sampled specimens have been extended more extreme in their own dimensions. From a realistic perspective, Alice’s attitude towards life is closer to most ordinary girls. She wants to find a true love. Because of the feelings she fell into when she was young in college, she instinctively felt that something was not right, and she really walked into society. , And found that many people have difficulty entrusting their sincerity, and it is a very low probability event to really meet the person who agrees with each other. But after all, she did not give up searching. From the perspective of symbolism and metaphor, we can also understand it this way: the other girls have become her "clone" and "consequence". Because the true feelings are hard to find, some people choose to enjoy the flesh and live in the present. Through the sperm bank, they choose to be single mothers, and some people place their hopes on social networking sites...
From the perspective of the story, the "Single Guide" tells the confused, helpless but wonderful life of young men and women trapped in feelings, and it ultimately also Asking about our attitude towards feelings. The movie describes the attitude of the mainstream society that is diffuse: "couples" are right and beautiful, "single" is wrong, at least not so happy, even if Robin is arranged for a role that is keen to enjoy singles, but her The consequences of each appearance and indulgence seemed very embarrassing, not to mention that her identity was finally exposed. This girl who played the role of a low-level employee was actually a hidden rich man. She rode a small bicycle shuttle in that huge house, hiding her wealth from ordinary socialization and happiness, no matter what, she seemed a bit lonely and sad. But fortunately, this is not the director’s values. The film only narrates this ubiquitous cultural oppression and peer pressure. In the end, the answer given by the film is still to encourage people to accept and enjoy the people they meet and lose them on the way to find themselves. People who are, and, more importantly, accept yourself, whether you are single or emotionally.
Love is only a part of life. When you meet it, you will plunge into it. If you don't meet it, you will be at peace. This is the state it should be. It’s just that many people naturally set one state as correct, and naturally understand the relative state as error. They desperately get rid of one and go to the other, but both the process and the result often seem too tragic because they set The starting point is wrong.
"Guide to Singles" has always emphasized the ability to distinguish between alone and lonely. The former is just a single person, while the latter means loneliness. However, many people feel that the former will inevitably lead to the latter. In fact, it is far from the case.
Dakota Johnson, who played Alice, is the female number one in the famous "Fifty Shades of Grey", and the other actors are also familiar faces in American TV shows. These girls express the various kinds of men in their lives, all kinds of helplessness, with laughter, mutual blackness and self-blackness, and they have a unique sense of healing. If this movie has a built-in theme, then it should be looking for, looking for another person, on the way, finally find yourself.
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