"If I Stay": The Movie That Made Women Cry

If people do have souls, I wonder if souls will slip out of our bodies from time to time to wander. Some people say that when you sleep, your soul leaves your body, you can see things you don't usually notice, and you can even go on a wonderful adventure, only when you feel nervous and threatened When the time comes, your body will wake up suddenly, your soul will reset, and you will reopen your eyes to enjoy the memory and stimulation brought by your soul journey. Whether the soul really exists, it seems that many people who have come back to life can give us the answer. When they fall into a deep sleep and a coma, they seem to have a dream that will never end, there is a door, and there is a beam of light waiting there Whether you choose to walk through the door or wait for the echo to wake you up, you have left a deep imprint on the choice of memory in your soul. This movie is to tell us the story of the soul out of the body, but the story is mixed with many memories and details, mixed with many cares and letting go, too much is diluted by delicate emotions and messy past events that the soul chooses to stay. Such ideas and decisions, the emotional main line that cannot be connected in series makes the whole movie plot seem so mediocre, the emotional atmosphere shown by the director is too deliberate and flamboyant, it is difficult for people to integrate into it and not feel the pain of emotionally losing a loved one , Although the constant foreshadowing method is used to create the delicate feelings of family harmony and love, but the use of the isolated narrative mode has separated the entire emotional main line in pieces and pieces, and the mechanically rigid splicing of the plot has no sense of continuity at all. , going hand in hand with two lines of advancement can never get rid of the boring feeling. Maybe women with delicate minds are more easily moved by the details, but in the eyes of men, this is undoubtedly a miserable and illogical work. .

The movie is adapted from a novel, and it is difficult to express the emotions that can be expressed in words in a comprehensive manner. Because it is a teenage movie, it is difficult to connect what we read with what we see in terms of emotional grasp. This also makes it difficult for the film to develop feelings. The novel itself is a work with a weak narrative, and the main content is completely reflected in the emotional atmosphere between the lines, which also aggravates the prominence of the actors' use of their own actions to interpret such a feeling. The director also saw this, and used memories to gather and create the whole process of emotional brewing, so that people can continue to see the beauty of the past to draw sympathy for the whole incident and the whole character. The movie chooses from different angles. It depicts events and contradictions with strong emotional background, and highlights that after the tragedy, there are enough reasons to render the plot of the movie and sublimate the main line of emotion, but all this is not for an audience. Feeling the director's intention and good intentions, we can't appreciate the emotions that exist in the film, or even the distraction that is tortured by the director's choice of too many messy narratives. The two main story lines of the movie are not well integrated at all, and sometimes people even feel that the plot of the movie is too serious, and they are taken out of the play unknowingly, and when they are reintegrated into the plot, they are Can't find the feeling at all. The movie is taking a small and fresh route, and it constantly creates tears to deepen the audience's impression of the movie, but the movie that should be full of tears makes people unable to cry, just because the director designed the tears for emotional catharsis. Too casual and unable to concentrate, because there is no emotional advancement, we can't even find the reason why the protagonist is awakened at the end, and we can't feel what can make her continue to support? Is it love? The film's interpretation of this aspect is too weak, is it family? But grandparents are the embodiment of soy sauce characters in the movie, a continuation of their parents' expectations, which is really the only reason people can believe.

As for Chloe Moretz's performance, as always, she was as blunt and uncharacteristic as she was in "Carrie the Witch", but she set off the overall atmosphere of the whole film, and her performance supported the whole film. Human feelings, it is this feeling that brings us the strained and weak interpretation of the characters. In the movie, her feelings never broke out, and she didn't even cry aloud to infect the emotions of the whole movie. Blind confusion and helplessness seem to be irrelevant as if she were a bystander, making people unable to find sympathy. Her courage can't find an excuse for being too affectionate with the movie, and she can't be blamed for this. It's the result of the director's failure to arrange the plot reasonably.

This is a movie for women. The most delicate feelings are the inner experience. Men can't integrate into the understanding of the movie's feelings, and they can't even understand the movie. The movie is also shot in an emotional way. . There are actually a lot of tears in the movie, but the chance for us to find it is very small. Sometimes you don't even know how to cry or why, so that the movie wants us to cry without knowing anything. There is nothing new in the movie at all, and the story doesn't even have any credibility. Before you know it, the characters in the movie seem to have lost the vitality and vitality that they should have. It's a pity that people can't help it.

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