fault and love

Layne 2022-04-23 07:05:17

Sometimes I don't know what I want, and being reckless is youth.

Ellie hurriedly escapes her emotions every day, earns money every day, and enlightens her father. Life is lifeless. Paul's unexpected appearance makes her write love letters, disrupts her routine, and

Life brings color.

In fact, Ellie has been so busy that she has never understood herself, never opened herself to anyone.

Through her mobile phone, through letters, and through helping Paul write a love letter to the school flower, she has repeatedly failed to write love letters.

Understand that love is different from reporting, and only true feelings can be exchanged for feelings.

At first she got money in return for completing the tasks Paul gave her. until later realized

It was the first time in her life that she found that she was deeply in love, because she really gave her love.

She felt disconnected for the first time and didn't know what to do.

And the school flower also saw herself clearly from the love letter, from the person who knew her very well, and let go of her usual disguise.

Put down the pretense of that school flower. For the first time facing the real self, it seems that I am not so confused about my future path.

. It doesn't matter whether Ellie and the school flower will be together in the end, because they have both found and felt their true selves.

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Extended Reading
  • 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. ★★

  • Felipe 2022-03-25 09:01:22

    16 years later, Wu Siwei is still talking about love romantically and tenderly. I hope next time I won't wait 16 years for so long...

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.