"After" film review "The Great Gatsby is a good book, but it's just a dream, it's really just a lie."

Tess 2022-11-08 11:48:57

A romance film based on the best-selling teen novel "After" of the same name. The heroine Tessa (played by Josephine Langford) is beautiful and well-behaved and is the jewel in her mother's eyes. She is obedient, obedient, and excellent in learning. She has a stable and sunny boy boyfriend, and her family is proud of her. Tessa stepped onto the college campus, separated from her family and boyfriend, and started a new study and life. College life is full of passion and temptation...

For the first time, Tessa embarrassedly met the handsome male protagonist Harding (Hero Fiennes-Tiffin) in her dormitory. I thought I would withstand the temptation and study hard, but I was still too young to be dragged to the party by my roommate. Met Harding for the second time at a party. Harding is different from other boys. He belongs to the dark cooking department. He is unsmiling. His melancholy eyes reveal aloofness and arrogance. His personality tattoos show his repression and rebelliousness.

Tessa is forced to take part in a game of Truth or Dare, she chooses the big adventure, and the mission of the big adventure is to kiss Harding. Tessa refused to play games in order to keep her high profile, turned around and left but strayed into Harding's room... In Harding's room she found a room full of books, it turned out that Harding was a literature lover like her Reading thousands of volumes makes Tessa change her mind about Harding. Until one day, after their first kiss by the lake in the secret base, the spark of love in Tessa's heart was completely ignited. He couldn't resist Harding's handsomeness, let alone Harding's talent.

Despite her mother's objection and her ex-boyfriend's sadness, Tessa is determined to stay with Harding. The two enjoy the beauty of love like glue, they go in and out and envy others, the simple Tessa is overwhelmed by love, and she goes all out to give her feelings, but she doesn't know that all this is a lie...

It turned out that this was Harding's gamble at that reception. He bet that he would get Tessa, and that he would dump her after he got it. After Tessa knew the truth, she was overwhelmed with pain. Helpless, she went home to find her mother for comfort. Love finally turned into family... Harding did lie to Tessa, but he also moved the truth. Love is both poison and antidote, sincerity Harding finally moved Tessa to carry the love to the end...

A typical campus love story, calm and uneventful. There are no ups and downs, all are expected, anticlimactic, the handsome men and beautiful women attract attention at the beginning, and at the end, the overnight meal is fried. The emotional lines of the male and female protagonists are too thin and have no chemical reaction, and they do not resonate with the audience. Love is far from enough in the current love theme. Too much love has become numb, and additives must be added to stand out. Kind of trying to imitate Twilight but nowhere near it! The only bright spot is that the male lead is handsome and the female lead is average.

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After quotes

  • Tessa Young: There are moments in our lives that seem to define us.

  • Hardin Scott: She took my hand and led me out of the darkness and showed me that whatever our souls are made of, hers and mine are the same.

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