green first love, the sad voice, and the helpless emotions. These qualities are brought to us by Jay Chou's music. In his music, you can always feel a trace of helplessness and sadness for love, as if you can see a lonely teenager sitting in the corner of a dark room dejectedly, remembering with music Reminiscing about that young love.
Today, Jay Chou has put his helplessness and recollection of his first love in the movie. If the music can't fully convey Jay's intentions, then it is better to put all the memories and feelings about the first love into a self-directed and self-acted movie. How envious of Jay, using a movie to cherish the memory of his first love and the girl in his first love, in any case, this is a very wonderful thing, but it is not a wonderful thing that everyone can do. In most cases, we more or less forget our first love and forget the one in our first love. Time takes us to grow up and also deprives us of the ability to miss. Maybe we can only touch the past of others, Touching the memory of others, after all, time has passed.
There are too many movies about first love and youth, whether it is the Korean-Japanese style of beauty and cruelty coexisting, the Hong Kong-style fashionable youth style, or the American-style sex-dominated, European-style alternative psychedelic atmosphere . Most of the movies that express the theme of youth love stories have two extremes, either extremely beautiful and simple, or extremely cruel and true. It cannot be denied that watching this movie is just because it is Jay Chou's directorial debut. It cannot be denied that when many people are criticizing his music for becoming more and more boring and vulgar, we still have to admit that he used to have some songs. Still impressed a lot of people. "Can't Open My Mouth", "Quiet"... revealing too much of his past love for childhood love, naturally I expect his talent in music to continue in the movie, and still be able to be like his songs Impressed me the same. As if Jay Chou is the symbol of youthful love, his debut is still inseparable from the theme of youthful love like his songs. Therefore, when youth love movies have flooded, only Jay Chou is the only reason to attract people to watch this movie.
The film is as I imagined before, the picture is beautiful and simple, the plot feels like some MV, and the plot is displayed one after another. The bridges in the classic first love stories appear in the film one after another, the black bicycle, the shy girl in the back seat of the bicycle, the careful kiss and body contact, the simple and pure sweet talk... Even the place where the story takes place is More typical, such as the beautiful and quiet campus, the seaside, the mottled walls full of ivy... The characters naturally cannot escape the symbolization, the heroine is always in a pure style with straight hair and fluttering, and the hero is always less talkative. The quiet young man is still a good-looking school uniform that can no longer be good-looking. I have been worried before that this film will become a super long MV of 90 minutes. Although it is a bit redundant, it is not unreasonable. After all, the first 50 minutes of this film does have a little MV feeling. The main reason is that the plot is relatively simple and straightforward, and the characters, scene usage, and performance actions are more typical.
The film inherits the fresh, simple and innocent style of Taiwanese movies, with quiet pictures and quiet characters, as if only the melody of classical music is left. Classical music runs through the whole film, Chopin, the classic "Swan", highlights the film's unique artistic temperament. The use of these music is what Jay Chou is best at, and there are also elements of European classical music in his music. If the first 50 minutes of this film are a little dull, then the beautiful music and romantic piano room date is the best part. Although there have been many films that use the piano as a flirting prop, in Jay Chou's film, the piano has suddenly become beautiful. That ancient piano, that mysterious piano room, has become an important prop and scene that highlights Jay Chou's characteristics.
I really admire Jay Chou's imagination, and the use of some details is really innovative and special. The confession of love written on the desk with correction fluid, including the biggest "secret" of the film and the mysterious piano score, makes the second half of the film exceptionally exciting. Such a story concept is really good. However, in the end, the handling of the truth of the ending seemed a little hasty. However, as Jay Chou, who is making a movie for the first time, first of all, he passed the standard judgment of whether he can tell a story well. At least this story about first love and music is not very conventional in the end. I don't want to reveal too many plots here, after all, it is the "unspeakable secret" that supports the whole movie. If there is no "secret", then this film will become a very mediocre one among many youth love movies. It can be seen that in order to make this film more storytelling, even more characteristic and attractive elements, that "secret" is definitely the most exciting setting of Jay Chou when he conceived this story.
Jay Chou once said frankly that this film has the shadow of his first love, so naturally Jay Chou plays Xiao Lun in this film is himself. Performing one's own situation in this way, although the performance is real, does not have any breakthroughs and characteristics. Not as good as he has a unique character in "Initial D" and "Golden Armor in the City". Watching Xiao Lun in this film seems to be watching Jay Chou himself, his first love in high school, the way he handled love, and his sadness and selflessness. The father-son relationship with Huang Qiusheng is even more mediocre. Obviously, it is not as good as the father-son relationship in "Initial D". In this film, the father's request for his son, and even the daily life of the two people, has nothing new and no good-looking relationship. The conflict broke out, which made Huang Qiusheng seem redundant in this film. Although he still acted very well and was still stealing the show, he eventually became the narrator of the truth, and his other character teacher did not give The characteristics of a teacher at the Conservatory of Music, on the contrary, give people a very funny feeling. Therefore, the performances of the actors in this film, except for Gui Lunmei's which are still good-looking and characteristic, others are very symbolic and superficial, and the performances of the actors are not as good as the classic one after another in this film. Nice classical music.
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