First of all, I want to say one thing, I don't think "Youth of You" copied Bai Yexing. In different stories, the relationship between the characters can be the same. The relationship between the characters in The Lion King and The Prince's Revenge is the same, and all the routines of happy enemies are also based on the same character relationship. Everyone thinks that "Youth of You" looks like White Night Walk because the relationship between the characters it shows is not the same. Uncommon, it takes a lot of chance for two people whose lives have nothing to do with each other to make such a connection. But if the literary and artistic creators are diligent enough to create enough stories with such character relationships, then it will be the same as "the president worth over 100 million likes a girl who has nothing (rare in reality)". Not surprisingly.
So the crux of the problem is not here, but that the story is not told well at all.
"Youth of You" is well-made, from the obedience to the soundtrack to the actors' acting skills, all are impeccable, but the idea of telling the story is really tangled.
The first question is, do you really want to talk about school violence?
Or is school violence just a tool for you to push the plot and the relationship forward?
Because Chen Nian was bullied, she was trembling on the way home. When she saw others being beaten, her inner kindness still drove her to lend a helping hand, which made the two get to know each other. Chen Nian recalled Hu Xiaodie's questioning, and summoned the courage to call the police. It attracted more violent revenge, forcing her to seek Xiaobei's protection; and the last insult to Chen Nian led to deeper entanglements such as her murder and Xiaobei taking the blame for her.
But that's where the brutality of the movie is. Because real school violence is not like this.
It has violence and cruelty, you don't even understand why, there are so many people who can't get through with you, and you don't understand why your peers can be so cruel and indifferent, your friends have betrayed you, your kindness All of them are reported maliciously, and parents and teachers will even think that the pain you suffer is insignificant and will blame you instead. No one can help you.
The greatest despair of campus violence is that it has no exit for relief and no way for help.
And Xiaobei is an illusory outlet, a kindness and love that will not exist.
Most of the length of the movie is actually given to the feelings of the two people. The campus violence in this story seems to be just to create some accidents, so that two people can communicate, so that Chen Nian needs Xiaobei, so that two people can finally enter each other's hearts.
I have no opinion on this, commercial films must have love.
But I think the screenwriter didn't really think about what campus violence really means, and it often doesn't mean a protector who looks like Yi Yang Qianxi. It is only helplessness and despair.
So the second question is, do you want to "walk in the white night" or to walk on the road?
Perhaps the original and complete story is similar to White Night Walk. Two people who seem impossible to communicate, one walks in the sun, the other does dirty work in the dark, and in the interrogation room, two people can look into each other's eyes and deny each other's past, and even shout insults The other party, shot and slapped the other party. In the end, Xiaobei was willing to sacrifice the crime, and Chen Nian also understood Xiaobei's intentions and continued her life as an honor student. It's a story that's both embarrassing and creepy.
It can also prevent the police from appearing so incompetent, and the guilty people still have to be brought to justice, so Chen Nian still has to turn himself in, and both have to go to jail. It's also nice and a little educational.
But it is so superfluous. In the interrogation room, the two people who are in the same mind will perform a performance full of blood and tears, and at the end, it will promote the main theme of Skynet's sloppy and unmissable.
Considering that the film was originally set for June and has only been released now, I am inclined to believe that it was re-edited under the intervention of force majeure. Because we want to rectify school violence, we just use it as a tool for public opinion propaganda.
A good movie should at least be "pure" and "extreme", but "Youth You" has too many things to want, to express, and to shoulder. It may have been just a commercial film about youthful love at first, and its background is the college entrance examination and school violence.
It doesn't say anything.
The ancients honestly did not deceive me. You really can't have both.
I feel very sorry.
So the third question is, when can literary and artistic works be free from interference?
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