After the popularity of "Want to See You" in 2019, there are more and more works with the same title. Before, South Korea borrowed the same concept of "because I desperately want to see you, so I travel through time and space" to produce a short drama "Zhi Yu Birthday", and then some domestic network dramas used "crossing time and space again" as the narrative main line "Circular Birthday", and the shadow of "Want to See You" can be found in many works.
Unfortunately, because of the rough construction of the script, these works did not surprise the audience.
Until the recent appearance of this campus youth crossover drama "Thousands of Times for You", it once again brought the audience a sense of surprise with the "fatalistic love" like "Want to See You".
The story begins at a wedding in which old classmates Huang Shijie and Zheng Zeyuan are reunited. Zheng Zeyuan has a crush on Shi Jie for many years, but he has not been able to say his crush because of various reasons such as studying abroad. This time, I planned to confess after the wedding, but I did not expect that After the wedding, Shi Jie had a car accident, and since then the yin and yang have been separated.
Among Shi Jie's relics is a "camera sent by Zheng Zeyuan", which is full of photos of Zheng Zeyuan, Shi Jie and several other friends in high school.
Zheng Zeyuan accidentally crossed over when he flipped through the photos to see the people and returned to the 6 hours before the photo was taken. The photo was taken when the high school class literary and art festival party was not successful, but this time through Zheng Zeyuan to try to make the literary and art party successful.
This means that as long as Zheng Zeyuan continues to return to the past through photos, he can change the future little by little "with different decisions and behaviors from then" butterfly effect, thus preventing Shi Jie's car accident death.
In this process of continuous crossing, Zheng Zeyuan found many things that he had ignored in the past: such as the rift between the seemingly harmonious group of friends, and shi jie actually liked himself.
The suspense of saving Shi Jie through time and space, and the pure and heartfelt first love between Zheng Zeyuan and Shi Jie in high school, the double point of view makes the audience want to stop, and can't help but brush this story in one breath...
Because there are no traffic stars in the starring team and the style of the main poster of the series is too rough, "Thousands of Times for You" did not receive public attention when it was broadcast. Until the plot progressed little by little, and the high-energy bridge sections appeared one after another, the audience discovered this treasure work.
The biggest highlight of the story is "the sweet love scene between Zheng Zeyuan and Shi Jie after traveling through time and space". The appearance of the two young actors is very high, although the acting skills are young, but it is very good to grasp the character of the character and the two-way crush in the anxiety and heartbeat, and the audience girl's heart is bursting.
For example, when crossing for the first time, Zheng Zeyuan couldn't help but "lose and regain" when he hugged Shi Jie. For Zheng Zeyuan, whose psychological age is already 25 years old, this is just an expression of emotion. But for Shi Jie, who was still a young girl at the time, her heartbeat was already deafening, and her cheeks were rapidly turning red. Compared with other small sweet dramas, the sweetness of this detail is more real.
Another example is the confusion of the group fight on the basketball court and the disbelief when confirming the relationship. In the chaos, Zheng Zeyuan's boyfriend Li Max tightly protected Shi Jie, blocking Shi Jie's eyes with his hand to prevent her from seeing those bad scenes. Under the palm of her hand, Shi Jie couldn't help but raise her face.
Confirming the relationship stems from Shi Jie's words that "the IQ in love is 0", which shocked Zheng Zeyuan for half a day and could not return to God, constantly confirming "Wait a minute, do you mean we are in love"? The feelings of youth are straight and warm, making the audience call out to their hearts.
In addition to the love scene between the two, there are many wanton and happy youth group portraits between Zheng Zeyuan and Shi Jie in the "high school buddy group" in the series. Fight against teachers together, hold literary evenings for youth; take a graduation trip together, freeze happy moments at the beach; plan together, customize confession plans and marriage proposals for each other...
The friendship of youth is simple and beautiful, and the collision of youth has become a different kind of memory, looking at it, so that the audience can't help but recall their youth, and the resonance is very strong.
On the other side, there is the regret and sadness of "Zheng Zeyuan constantly crossing but has not been able to change the end of Shi Jie's death". The reason for the failure was that Zheng Zeyuan was not the only one who crossed, and there were other people who also traveled through time and space.
For Zheng Zeyuan, the purpose of traveling through time and space is to change Shi Jie's death. But for another mysterious person, the butterfly effect brought about by Zheng Zeyuan's continuous crossing has changed his life, so he must intervene to stop it.
It is amazing that the core of low-cost web dramas can actually go deep into the discussion of whether the butterfly effect changes the future is good or bad.
In the end, it is the ending between Zheng Zeyuan and Shi Jie. Like the closed-loop timeline of "Want to See You", if you want to prevent death from the root, then the starting point is "the moment of the initial encounter", as long as you change that moment, then all the subsequent life trajectories will cease to exist.
The specific process is not a spoiler, but what can tell the audience is that regret is only temporary, and the happy ending between the two is still expected by the public, and it is completely safe to chase.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that the setting of Zheng Zeyuan crossing to the past to save his first love through photos in "Thousands of Times for You" is very similar to the Korean drama "To Yu Birthday". However, when "Thousands of Times for You" began filming, "To Yu Birthday" did not air and there was no plagiarism, and the story quality was much better than that of "Yu Yu Birthday".
This fully proves that as long as the director and screenwriter are careful enough, the actor's character image and the story character are consistent, and the small cost production can also have big surprises. I sincerely hope that the drama "Thousands of Times for You" can be known by more people, and I hope that there will be more and more domestic dramas like this in the future