[Story]
The story logic of "Pei": Marriage crisis, go back to the past, fail to rewrite the destiny, travel back.
It is a big dream rather than crossing. Once the dream wakes up, all the absurdities in the dream can naturally be free of explanation. Moreover, "Peace" doesn't have a complete story line. It puts jumping details together, and the narrative is slightly procrastinated. The whole film is gentle. It was too noisy before crossing, and there were no bright spots after crossing.
Because the heroine of "Peace" does not want to be entangled with the male protagonist, she always wants to leave Charlie, and even deliberately break up with him; she misses her own children, so she has to go back to the future eagerly and hope her grandfather's "cult" church. So its narrative motivation is "avoid Charlie" + "back to the future". But this also caused contradictions in the film. Because going back to the future to see a child means acknowledging that you had married Charlie, and acknowledging your fate and your communication with Charlie. What is the meaning of crossing, and what is the meaning of avoiding Charlie in the past?
And Peggy did not strongly reject Charlie, and Charlie's "faithfulness" scenes were too few, and Peggy's dream lover read a few poems inexplicably and then left the stage, and the two came back from time to time to welcome the rejection. In the intimate scenes and hysterical breakup scenes, it always feels that Peggy doesn't really want to break up. Sure enough, when Peggy saw the heart-shaped pendant (with photos of their future children in it), he fell weakly into Charlie's arms. Then Peggy woke up from the hospital bed, it turned out that everything in front of him was just a dream. The two major contradictions have been resolved in this way? !
Therefore, for Peggy, traversal is passively falling into a big dream, instead of using traversal to actively rewrite destiny, wasting the good idea of traversing, and only talks about a middle-aged woman's big dream. Dreams are not exciting enough.
The story logic of "Xia": Marriage crisis, go back to the past, rewrite success, decay, death, and return to reality
In "Xia", crossing is the prerequisite for the development of the story, and the narrative motivation is to "retake the road of life". "Xia" has been displayed for more than 20 years from a middle school student to becoming famous, and then to death. The "new life" after the journey is the highlight. The hero of the world sees another himself in parallel time and space. He embarks on the road he dreamed of, but the ending did not develop according to his imagination.
The new story after the crossing also satisfies the imagination of the audience and the protagonist. It can be said that success is a dream come true, which forms a strong contrast with the one before the crossing. And the protagonist, Charlotte, has gone from a musical genius to a Jiang Lang. The ups and downs of "Second Life" also secretly satisfy the sour grape psychology-the rich have a bad life, cherish the people in front of them and so on. In addition, there are a number of story clues intertwined, good at using details to leave a foreshadowing, and use language to shape the character of the characters. After living with classmates on campus, everyone's destiny began to change, and multiple story lines proceeded simultaneously. The main line is of course the ups and downs of Charlotte's life, and one of the dark lines is Dongmei, who was transferred to school, and his relationship with Dachun, another dark line is Yuan Hua breaking up with Qiuya, and then life is down, and the other dark line is publicity. Waiting for the young and old of Charlotte's mother. In the end, these stories overlap and intersect again, and thus have new contradictions and comedic effects. At the end, hug with kangaroo + "just once" background music, strong tears, enough sensational.
Not to mention whether the values are correct or not, from the story, "Xia" is complete, rich, and funny.
[Characters]
"Pei" lacks a clear positioning of the characters and lacks impressive details.
Peggy is sensitive and fragile, and misses her child and hopes to return to the future. She loved her family, and she couldn't speak with excitement when she heard her grandma's voice. This is what makes her cute, she values her family and her emotions. But she is an ordinary little woman. Because her husband cheated, she tried to avoid the male lead when she went back in time, but she was pleasantly surprised when she went back to the past to hear his singing. When she saw her male classmates were cool, she wanted to sleep and hear A few scary poems fled; she told her new classmates about the new invention in the future, thinking of selling pantyhose to make a lot of money, but these originally interesting plots did not unfold, and the scene was swept away. Her life is too ordinary, even after crossing, she has only some abilities of the unknown prophet, and there is no bright spot. In a word, this character is not cool enough.
Charlie is a silly and cute high school student. He loves music and has a good voice. The film also has two solo songs and details of selling Shostakovich records. However, it is not enough. Did such a sincere dream easily give up just because my father promised 10% of the company's shares? However, the image of the silly boy chasing the girl is quite cute, such as turning the window to her house in the middle of the night, turning off the power to the church and "rescuing" Peggy. However, the characters are still sluggish, far from being "three-dimensional"! If the theme is "cherish the person in front of you", it hasn't moved the audience either. There is no soundtrack at the end, the sensationalism is a bit weak...The main supporting role-two girlfriends and a girlfriend boyfriend, except for the big glasses of one of them, my impression is really limited...
and The protagonists and supporting roles in "Xia" are all impressed. Also traveling back to the campus, "Xia" presents facial and even comic-style campus life. For example, the "problematic student" Charlotte who doesn't change his sex and heart, the kind and lovely sports student Dongmei, the insane and hypocritical top student Yuan Hua, the honest and honest "Dasha" Dachun, the silly and honest "Dasha" Dachun, the dreamy boy with a girlish heart, and the dangling little brother. He is also a "stepfather", even the milf-aged mother Charlotte and the respectable teacher Wang who love to take advantage of it are very interesting.
In addition, various details are used to highlight the sense of age, and the sense of nostalgia is used to narrow the distance with the audience, such as Xu Wei Pushu's songs, slam dunk stickers and so on. But "Peggy" seems to have similar stalks, such as old Ford cars, record players, old shoes, etc. However, I don't understand the American culture at that time, so I don't know much about it.
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