This seemingly ordinary Taiwanese youth film is becoming another "The Girl We Chased Those Years". After sweeping Taiwan, it has the potential to be the Hong Kong box office champion this year.
The story of the first love between an ordinary-looking girl, Lin Zhenzhen and the campus bully Xu Taiyu, on the campus of Taiwan in the 1990s, how good can it be? Isn't that what they are?
But the matter of youth is not like that, is it?
Director Chen Yushan put all the crushes, first loves, pink girls' thoughts, punks, bicycles, graduation albums, and Andy Lau into this film. The shared youth of the Chinese may be this incomparably personal memory that inadvertently opens the door to everyone's youth memory.
It's such a simple movie, it seems like it ends with nothing, like our youth.
It should be like this, youth, how big of a deal can it be? It's so cliché and so beautiful.
I haven't had an abortion in those years, how about you?
In those years, I have not had an abortion, nor have I had an abortion. He didn't commit suicide, and he didn't force anyone to commit suicide. There is no cheating, and there is no chance for someone to cheat. I didn't go to the beach to call out a girl's name to the sea, and I don't think any girl would go to the beach and shout my name out loud.
Therefore, when watching domestic youth films, I have deeply doubted countless times: Is my youth in vain?
Thanks to "My Girls' Generation", it turns out that your youth can be so beautiful in mediocrity.
What is youth in "My Girls' Generation"? Director Chen Yushan said it very well: "No cruelty, no abortion, and no money, this is our youth."
So there is this thoughtful film that looks like nothing to do, plain as water - yes, no typo , is a small thought movie, not a small fresh movie.
Because from the beginning to the end of the movie, it is about the careful thoughts of a pink girl named Lin Zhenzhen. Those thoughts, we happened to move at a certain moment in our youth.
Live some calm days, meet some ordinary people, happen some ordinary things, miss someone so ordinary, and imagine that someone is also thinking of yourself.
How cliché. But cliché, isn't it our life? There are many bloody youths, how old are you?
A generation comes, a generation grows old, and those stories come and go. For others, it's nothing, but for you, those clichéd little things are very important.
The so-called girl's cherishing spring is really the most beautiful thing in the world, and it is not limited to girls, boys' minds are never simpler than girls, that Xu Taiyu, who seems to be stupid and rough, has also hidden his love for so many years?
If your youth has no spring, then youth is not youth. The reason why "My Girls' Generation" can make so many paper towels on both sides of the Taiwan Strait to be used cleanly is not because it has triggered a collective rejuvenation - it has made so many people suddenly miss their youth.
We all want to be the famous Tao Minmin, but in the end it's just a passerby Lin Zhenzhen
Why is Lin Zhenxin's youthful trifle so second-hand, so heartless? But it's so delicate, so heart-warming?
Because this is youth, and youth means that you can still have the right to be forced!
In your youth, if you were Lin Zhenzhen, don't tell me that you didn't have a Ouyang Feihan in your heart, and if you were Xu Taiyu, don't tell me that you didn't have a Tao Minmin in your heart.
Why does Lin Zhen really remind us of our youth? Because she is so ordinary. Ordinary like you and me.
My teenage years, well, no, my teenage years didn't go well, and it could be said to be a mess of mediocrity. After the end, compared with the male protagonists in domestic youth films, what the hell is this youth, what the hell?
But compared with Lin Zhenzhen, I was relieved.
She's not pretty, at least she looked messy before changing her hairstyle, her grades aren't very good, and she doesn't have a heartthrob temperament at all, even a little clumsy, but she works hard, perseveres, and is tough on life. She represents our youth. , or at least represents what youth looks like in our memory.
When I was young, I seldom had a good time, and the only good ones were probably my own imagination. Even if I put on my best clothes in the graduation show, Tao Minmin won't give me a second look, I'm just that so-and-so, not that so-and-so, my life is full of unfinished exam papers and bad writing. Composition, snacks that can't be bought and sister paper that can't be soaked.
How hard are you, who care? How many seconds did you miss Tao Minmin, not important.
We all wanted to be the famous figures of Tao Minmin and Ouyang Feifei on campus, but in the end, it was inevitable that we would become Lin Zhenzhen and Xu Taiyu.
But it is precisely because of this that Xu Taiyu in Lin Zhenzhen's life is so important.
Lin Zhenzhen in Xu Taiyu's life is so important.
In other words, only if you stay in whose youth memory, your youth will not be in vain. Your youth is very mediocre, but you are very important to Xu Taiyu, the campus bully—
then, you, Lin Zhenzhen, your youth really existed—because your youth was left in Xu Taiyu’s memory— How could the youth remembered in one's mind not exist?
Lin Zhenxin's story is different from yours, but her youth is the same as yours
Why does everyone think that "My Girls' Generation" is filming their own youth?
In 2011, Nine Swords recruited young Ke Zhendong and Chen Yanxi to interpret their youth and passion. Four years later, Chen Yushan found Song Yunhua and Wang Dalu, who were also unknown, to perform their youth and careful thinking.
Nine knives filmed "Those Years", and Chen Yushan filmed "My Girls' Generation".
It's hard to avoid comparing the two films. If "Those Years" restores a boy's first love, "My Girls' Generation" restores a girl's first love.
This is obviously the director's own memory, but shouldn't youth be like this?
"My Girls' Generation" is about 1994, what happened in that year? The Four Heavenly Kings were still the most popular idols at that time. Zhou Xingchi's movies were still in the nonsensical era. At that time, Xing Ye could still make 5 movies a year, and now it is almost 1 movie every 5 years. At that time, "Slam Dunk" was popular on campus, and every boy wanted to complete a slam dunk like Rukawa Kaede. Andy Lau's "Forgetting Love" sang in the streets and alleys, and everyone imitated Andy Lau to sing.
.If the person who reads this text is born in the 80s, you must know what I am talking about. In other words, if you haven't done any of the above, then you're still a shitty youth!
Like director Chen Yushan, I have done all the stupid things Lin Zhen has done. Xu Taiyu studied hard after the change, and his test scores improved, but the teacher questioned him about cheating. The director has experienced it, and I have also experienced it. When the director said, "We study and take exams not to please others, but to prove that we are not that bad", I think she spoke of my youth.
So what's so strange about this movie, no matter how much box office and tears it makes? It hits us with a beep, telling us that there was still youth in our lives—regardless of your gui Geng this year.
Why are so many people moved by "My Girls' Generation", and why can a youth film stab the tear glands on both sides of the strait without blood?
I think the reason can only be: Lin Zhenzhen's story is different from yours, but you know, this is your youth. Yes, the seller show did not become a buyer show-because her story is different from yours, but youth is not the same as yours. You too.
But boy, how can there be so many Andy Lau that you can embrace in life?
This is the magic of the movie. We thought that Lin Zhen represented our youth, but in fact, we cannot have her youth.
The most climax scene in "My Girls' Generation" is at the graduation ceremony, when the students collectively complained to the dean, Lin Zhen said, "Only we can decide what we look like." In a later story, Lin Zhenzhen, who entered the society, resolutely offered to resign to her boss. Just like a graduation ceremony, only she can decide what she looks like.
Did you think this was the end? Just didn't.
Lin Zhenzhen, who has resigned, can also meet Andy Lau, the idol that Girls' Generation has been chasing since, and face the grimacing face of the king, and can also tell his true confession from Girls' Generation to the present, making all the audience burst into tears.
However, the story is not over. It's still this Lin Zhenzhen, and he can meet Xu Taiyu who has grown into Jerry Yan. With just one line, in a minute, he knows that the boy has loved him for so many years, and the boy still loves him. If you are Lin Zhenzhen, do you want to say: Oh god! What luck hit the old lady!
However, you are not Lin Zhenzhen, neither are we. By the way, I was quite like Xu Taiyu back then, but now I'm not like Jerry Yan at all. In the movie, I don't have it, we don't have it.
In fact, how can there be eternal youth? Time brings, time takes away, time will not be cheap to anyone.
No matter how unwilling we are, we will eventually grow up and become adults who looked down on us when we were young. We no longer sing Andy Lau, no longer learn Rukawa Feng, no longer remember things when we were young, we walked in the crowd with briefcases, we were reprimanded like dogs, and then accompanied by a smiling face.
This is called growing up.
We wish we could be as cool as Lin Zhenzhen, but reality can't be a joke.
That's why "My Girls' Generation" is so good. It contrasts with our unsightly lives.
Only in movies do boys who have liked you still remember your idols. In reality, your husband only cares about whether you breastfeed your children.
Movies can help us regain our lost youth. In reality, no matter how much SOD honey we rub, we will still get old and ugly, no exception.
The movie can also make Lin really embrace Andy Lau, this scene is really warm and cool. In reality, we can only watch Lin really embrace Andy Lau.
Maybe when you grow up, you finally learn to face the departure of youth calmly or pretend to be calm. It is to admit that the stories in youth films have nothing to do with me. It is to learn to accept the cruelty and decisiveness of life, and learn to live in peace with the cruel life.
But occasionally, the fat uncle also wants to watch a movie like "My Girls' Generation", where there is a youth you want, called Lin Zhenzhen.
It's not scary even if her youth lost the most important thing, because we all know that at the end of the movie, that boy named Xu Taiyu will come to her.
My youth is over and no one has come to me. I haven't met Andy Lau either. I still live like a dog.
But we still have movies, don't we?
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