Love is more than an expression of emotion

Anibal 2022-04-21 09:03:45

My favorite romantic film in recent years, the director has gotten rid of gender topics and identity cognition, and is talking about pure love, simply talking about the exploration and pursuit of love by three people. That is to say, in the movie, love has more than one emotional way, it can be a good person and a good smell, or it can be a mess and chaos. There is no gender in love, so gender is no longer the focus of the director's attention. The movie is just about three people and three types of love.

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  • Tate 2022-03-11 08:02:00

    Compared with sixteen years ago, teenage love is a little more complicated and mature. The big triangle of this "dog blood" is quite interesting. BTW, there are so few straight guys that are subtle and funny.

  • Irma 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    The homogenization of Netflix's youth-themed film and television dramas is too serious. This film is a very typical case. Its framework can be regarded as an LGBT variation of Netflix's latest hit "To All the Boys I've Loved Before". The essence of "Face" that Wu Siwei is praised by the outside world is that it inherits the similar qualities to Ang Lee's "Father Trilogy", and has a keen insight into the collision of Chinese and Western cultures. In this romantic film about American teenagers with basically the same cultural identity (although the protagonist is of Chinese descent, the entire cognitive stage takes place in the United States), the narrative belonging to Asians is submerged instead. Wu Siwei abandoned almost all the advantages of her immigrant experience perspective and made an American youth film that is inherently vulgar. ★★

The Half of It quotes

  • Ellie Chu: I'm Ellie Chu.

    Aster Flores: Yes, I know. You've only been playing my dad's services every Sunday for, like, four years. You're his favorite heathen. He can't handle mediocre accompanists, even if they ARE saved.

  • Ellie Chu: The good thing about being different is that no one expects you to be like them.