To put it simply, the filming of "If You Are the One" is Feng Xiaogang's desire to prove that he can also tell love stories after the "main theme" of costume blockbusters and war themes. Of course, this does not mean that there is no "love" in Feng's previous films. On the contrary, almost every film has more or less "love" in it. The childhood sweethearts of Party A and Party B (or are they called buddies?), happy friends who are not far away, endless relationships outside of marriage, and robbers in the world without thieves, um, I didn't watch the night banquet, However, even in the assembly number, there is "she can be so good to the dead, but how bad is she to the living?" (Actually, this sentence is not logical at all, but it is a question of love and marriage...). But this time, Feng Xiaogang wanted to tell a love story through and through, so the jokes full of Feng's humor in the film became a gag and took a back seat. However, this also caused a lot of people, like my roommate, to go to the cinema to watch the VIP special in the first week of the release, and after they came back, they expressed dissatisfaction. Indeed, we are all looking forward to Feng's once again being able to shoot a lighthearted and comfortable comedy love story, but the director stubbornly wanted to make it touching and at the same time he was unwilling to let go of his irony and humor, so he shot it. This is "If You Are the One".
I've been thinking about it after watching it, and it's very awkward. Well, awkward is the best word to describe it, right? The pace of the movie is awkward. The director has basically abandoned the compact structure that he has always maintained. The rhythm of the whole film is sometimes soothing and abnormal, in line with the beautiful scenery of Haikou, Hangzhou, Hokkaido, and suddenly tightened from time to time, disrupting the rhythm of the audience and making the story more interesting. It seemed a little strange when. For example, it is a bit like an elastic band that has been used for many years and has aged. Some places are loose like ordinary cloth strips, and some places are still banned as new, only good and bad. Sections are placed apart from each other, and it is useless to say, and it always makes people feel that they are not in the same place.
Of course, this analogy is an exaggeration, and I haven't completely denied this movie.
The core of the movie's story is actually very simple, and it can be said to be a bit "conventional". It's just that the characters in the story are so cute. Qin Fen's marriage requirements were always looking for someone similar to him, fashionable on the outside and conservative on the inside. A realistic shell with strong survivability, wrapped with an idealistic romantic core. Xiaoxiao wears the "immoral" name of a "third party", but she is so stupid that she only knows how to love. For the sake of the lovely hero and heroine, forgive the unsatisfactory plot and rhythm?
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