(The following may contain spoilers)
1. For Anton
"For Anton" appears at the end of the film, referring to the director and screenwriter's friend Anton Yelchin, who is also the cute Russian brother in the new Star Trek movie. In June 2016, he was only 27 years old and unfortunately died in an accident.
Anton once starred in the director's film Like Crazy (Love Crazy, 2011), which also featured Fecility Jones and Jennifer Lawrence. Like Crazy won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. To commemorate Anton, the director completed the film in only 4 months, so as to catch up with Sundance in 2017. In order to speed up production, the film skipped the announcement of the cast and other links, and submitted it to the film festival at the last minute. In the eyes of the outside world, the film appeared very suddenly. In the eyes of the actors, the close shooting plan (filming in 18 days) made them feel like their bodies were hollowed out.
Both the film and Like Crazy discuss the love lives of young people. The director mentioned that because Anton has always liked these relatively low-key small productions, and they are telling stories about a group of close people. This is also very consistent with Anton's style of acting.
In addition, under "For Anton" there is a line "into the jungle", which is Anton's last email signature.
2. Director Drake Doremus
The location of the film is set in Los Angeles. The director himself is from LA. He was born in 1983 and graduated from the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts AFI. This is a top film school in the world. It is said that Drake himself is the youngest admitted student in the history of the college. His mother is also very powerful and is one of the founders of LA's famous comedy theater + training camp The Groundlings.
3. Nicholas Hoult
In 2016, the male lead Nicholas Hoult Nicholas also starred in the director's last film Equals (Equal Ethnic Group, 2015), and played against Xiao K. That film also talks about the love of two young people. Like this film, the producer has Ridley Scott’s company Scott Free Productions.
In addition, there is also an Easter egg from the movie Nizi previously played in this film-the zombie version of Twilight Warm Bodies (Warm Bodies, 2013). Because when Nizi and the hostess chat for the first time, they mentioned that the previous date regarded him as a dildo attached to the "warm body"...
4. Cast
Although the film did not win awards or good reputation like Like Crazy, it is generally believed that the cast of this film is very good. In addition to Nizi, there is also the heroine Laia Costa, who starred in the 2015 120-minute one-shot Victoria. In addition, Pom Klementieff, who plays the protagonist’s ex-wife, is the sensitive mantis girl in "Guardians of the Galaxy 2." Friends is the beloved Matthew Gray Gubler in the American drama Criminal Minds.
5. Esther Perel
In the film, the two people went to a lecture about open relationship. The speaker mentioned the key sentence "Think of it not as the destination, but the layover." This is Esther Perel, an expert in gender relations and a psychotherapist in reality. .
She has unique insights in this area and has also given TED talks twice: The Secret to Desire in Long-term Relationship (2013); Rethinking Infidelity (2015).
Source: IMDB.com nofilmschool.com cinemathread.com talkhouse.com
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