At the end of the film, Ellie gets on the train to the university. She looks at the serious, lonely and slightly confused people on the train, and her expression flashes a bit of confusion. This reminds me of the end of "The Graduate" - after the ecstasy, it gradually cools down, and the hesitation comes, and I don't know what to do.
Ellie's flash of confusion is precisely the uncertainty about the future, and she ends up going to an unfamiliar city alone. When she watched Paul be left behind the train, her laughter slowly stopped, she realized that her friends were gradually drifting away from her.
This is your youth and mine, this is the cruelty of growing up.
The English translation of "Campus Love Saint" "The half of it" literally translates as: half and half. This corresponds exactly to the fable at the beginning of the film: the ancient Greeks believed that people once had four arms, four legs, and two faces. Then it was cut in half by God,
Since then, a half-searching and half-searching process has begun, that is, a "love story".
This love story sounds a bit cliché: in the process of helping rugby boy Paul pursue school flower Esther, Ellie, a Chinese-American girl, found that she had an uncontrollable affection for Esther, while Paul was getting along with Ellie. , and gradually developed a favorable impression of Ellie.
I really like the extraordinary youthful energy in the movie, it makes you feel: it's good to be young, it's beautiful to be young . You can say that the love relationship between the three in the film is very bloody, but it is so simple and smart. Especially the little thoughts of boys and girls are so sincere and natural in the camera.
You can call it a same-sex romance movie, or you can call it a "what friendship is" movie. In fact, compared to the subtle same-sex feelings in the film, I prefer the cross-racial friendship between men and women. Even at the beginning, it was very innocent, decent, and funny, without any distractions.
Like Paul watching Chaplin with Ellie and Ellie's father, how weird and sweet that scene is, it's a very ideal harmony, and it's the beauty that all human beings want.
Or it is a kind of love.
People all over the world can live in harmony and be treated equally. No matter what ethnic group you are, no matter what your sexual orientation, you can be sincere, without prejudice, without discrimination.
Paul and Ellie's cross-ethnic friendship makes me think this love is so incredible, so kind and beautiful. Until the end, Paul bravely confessed to Ellie. Although he was rejected, the relationship between the two has not changed.
This is what moved me the most about the movie. It showed us the truth, goodness and beauty of youth, and let us know that youth is not only about the turbulent hormones, but also the kind of little luck that will touch your heart unexpectedly—a rare purity Friendship: quietly flowing, delicate and sincere.
Of course there is love. Because of loneliness, so love. In fact, the three of them were all alone at the beginning. Although Ester was talented and beautiful, he had no opinion of his own and was always influenced by exaggerated boyfriends; Ellie was an introvert and was not good at expressing her feelings; the football player Paul had a cheerful personality and a simple and honest appearance. In a messy family, the family doesn't understand him.
All three have their own loneliness to some extent. It is because of this loneliness that the three of them have an intersection with laughter and tears. They finally got what they wanted: Esther made up his mind and went to the University of the Arts; Ellie went to the ideal university; Paul successfully experimented with his own sausage recipe, not to mention he made a great friend like Ellie .
In the end everything was perfect. But not perfect.
What will happen to Ellie's love for Esther? Will this gay love come true in a few years?
What about Paul? He should be the saddest. He pays the price for cheating Esther and is also rejected by Ellie. But his sincerity and loveliness restored his friendship with Ellie.
It's not over. It's only this temporary period that ends.
They graduate from high school, say goodbye to each other, and start a new journey;
They are no longer sincere and half-understood, but frank with each other and confided in their hearts;
They stumble, support and grow on the road of youth.
Although Ellie had such a flash of hesitation at the end, she laughed because she finally took a brave step: expressing her love to Esther.
No matter what the outcome, no matter what the future holds, at least she became herself.
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