Rene Liu is not a reassuring director.
Speaking of fragmented narratives, love of literary and artistic accents, and excess self-awareness are really common problems for directors of literary and youth departments, Zhang Aijia has one, Huang Lei also has it, and Liu Ruoying herself is no exception.
The movie is not very good, the biggest problem is:
The director couldn't restrain his desire to write forced lines, and he couldn't stop the car as soon as he wrote it. Balabala couldn't stop talking about many things that could be explained with just one look.
In just two hours, the words "Say something human" and "Shut up you" popped up countless times in my mind. There were several times when tears had finally rolled in his eyes, and when he burst out with a line, his emotions were shattered on the spot, and he didn't even have the strength to roll his eyes.
But surprisingly, other than that, "Later Us" isn't a nasty movie in my mind.
First of all, the actors are attractive: I have always liked Zhou Dongyu, and I don't think her acting skills are so good. She has the temperament of "both quirky and like an indomitable two fools", very energetic and lovable, like a small fish Swim around in the gaps of life, and look alive.
As for Tian Zhuangzhuang, it is really good. As a director, his acting skills may be 80 times better than Feng Xiao's. In "Love and Blind Date", I already feel that he lifts weights lightly and is quite outstanding. In this film, he is like a pliable patch, used to support the green and scarred plot.
Li Pingbin helped a lot with the photography. The pictures of this film are fresh, clean and lively: snow, woods, reeds, fawns turning back in fright, and many scenes are particularly beautiful.
And love movies need beautiful pictures more than all other movies.
Human memory has a repair system. When a relationship ends, even if the process is miserable, there will always be one or two scenes in your memory that will be beautified by you: the street in the evening, the street lights in the middle of the night, and the setting sun has plated a beautiful layer on the face. In Phnom Penh, this situation is worth sighing who is with me at dusk.
The same is true of watching a movie. You must first identify with the context before you are interested in resonating with the emotions.
Of course, in this movie, the scales and claws of various classic love films are also used very cleverly and add a lot of color.
For example, Xiao Xiao's emotional experience and character setting at the beginning, it is hard not to think of "Sweet Honey". There are several scenes, I think the screenwriter can almost let Zhou Dongyu say to Jing Boran directly:
"Li Jianqing, I didn't stay in Beijing for you, and you didn't stay in Beijing for me."
The scene of Tian Zhuangzhuang cooking the New Year's Eve dinner is very warm, with fireworks and attractive on the screen. It is very "Diet Men and Women", especially in the end, the rebellious son started to steam the sticky bean buns that his father used to make in the world, and the rebellious daughter Wu Qianlian did the same thing.
There is also the biggest laugh of the audience that Zhou Dongyu contracted in the rental house, which is a classic passage that has been imitated countless times in my favorite love movie "When Harry Met Sally". Zhou Dongyu's completion is not bad, not enough fun but there is also her lovely place.
The rest, like breaking up and "La La Lan", or chasing the subway and "The Most Perfect Divorce", are more like a kind of resemblance and need a little understanding.
The movie is called "Later Us", and it seems to say "later", but in fact everyone knows:
What is "later"? In the real later, there will be no "we". In the real later, there are two people who are no longer related. Even if the movie forces them to meet in "later", that little intersection is only enough to take a look at "the former us". What can really be used to impress the audience is nothing but "you".
And in the process, the people you've loved won't even be the focus. Because you won't really want to go back to the past and go back to those stupid, selfless days, just keen on "going to nine days to embrace the moon, and five oceans to catch turtles".
You just don't mind the occasional reawakening of courage and enthusiasm in a rigid, exhausting life. With pity, she sighed through Zhou Dongyu's thin and small body: My mother also had such a cute past! Then, be a little more fortunate and cherish the life that is now grasped by reason.
Of course, the biggest myth of watching this movie must be: Rene Liu should have never really met her ex. In reality, how could it be so shameless to ask some silly things like "do you miss me" and "have you ever loved me" when you meet your ex?
In reality, the best state for an ex is probably as Xie Anqi said:
You don't have to look back often at those moving times . You can extract warmth and then close that room after the severe cold.
Locking up that room means leaving the past in the past, and everyone has their own way.
If it is true, in our lifetime, we will meet in a narrow way, and we will not be spared in the end.
That would be generous and pass by like an adult.
Nod at most and confirm the look:
If so, it's already a perfect ending.
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