At first, it was inevitable that the tone and style of the whole film really had the taste of European and American youth campus films - in a depressing, dull and a bit vulgar environment, the ambiguous and hazy emotions lit up the young people who were not understood in their hearts. It seems like a bit of a clichéd line and characterization (a popular school girl, a baseball player, and a loner girl who loves literature), but it's still a good thing—from an "interpretation of love" perspective. Presumably because that's what I'm working on as well, so let me give the movie extra points - what the hell can love be? From quoting Plato at the beginning, to "chasing love" with paul, to experiencing emotional changes to Aster, Chu gradually became the subject of love from a bystander, and finally boldly put forward his own interpretation of love in the "church": "love is messy, horrible, selfish...and bold." This scene is rebellious - an anti-traditional interpretation in the most traditional setting - alluding to the film's LGBT theme and aptly expressed Chu's personal growth, although the portrayal of that scene is still a bit too hard. Such a seemingly common "love triangle" routine looks both vulgar and not bad from the director's alternative narrative perspective - it allows me to see another interpretation and possibility of love, love can be hazy, fuzzy, Flowing... When I watch it, I keep thinking about the love between men and women from the perspective of women, the love between women and girls from the perspective of men, who Chu loves now, who Paul loves, and Ester loves Who... love because of shared thoughts or love because of the passion, maybe it's not that important... "love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole." will make me feel that there is something transcendent in this film Attitude - not simply discussing same-sex love, but wanting to push thinking towards the essence and core of love, which makes it break out of the stereotype of general youth same-sex romance films to a certain extent. Telling a less cookie-cutter story in a cookie-cutter frame is worth watching.
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