My girlhood
"My Girlhood" is a 2015 Taiwanese youth film directed by Chen Yushan and starring Song Yunhua and Wang Mainland. Chen Yushan has been the producer of many idol dramas that were popular on both sides of the river, such as "Lavender", "The Prince Becomes a Frog", "Destined I Love You", "The Star Who Herds Sheep", "Dolphin Bay Lover" and so on. Seeing these masterpieces of the director, I think I understand why "My Girlhood" has captured so many young people's favorites and become the highest-rated Chinese film in 2015 on Douban.
Let's talk about some gimmicks that have nothing to do with the plot and the main actor of this film. First, naturally, is the director of this film, Chen Yushan. As I mentioned above, Chen Yushan can be said to have a fairly good grasp of the young and stupid heart for youth idol dramas, and her achievements in this regard are also remarkable. Second, that is, the heroine of this film, and Andy Lau, the idol who stays in words and must marry, has finally been able to leave the country. I remember when I went to the theater to watch, Hua Tsai's face appeared in front of Lin Zhenxin, and when it appeared in the sight of many audiences, everyone "wowed" a sound, and some were even moved to tears. Third, the friendship cameo of Zhou Yumin and Chen Qiaoen, Chen Qiaoen should have about 15% of the scenes, and Zhou Yumin's soy sauce is quite moral, less than 3%. However, the audience was very surprised, this is the face we are familiar with when we were children. Fourth, as a post-90s generation, this film uses some small items and small things to evoke the common memories of this generation. Radios, cassettes, celebrity stickers, souvenir manuals, skating, and codes given under his window.
Let's talk about the plot, "My Girlhood" is about an ordinary girl Lin Zhenxin who one day receives a threatening "lucky letter", claiming that if it is not passed on to others or destroyed, it will not be able to die. She was convinced of the content of the lucky letter and passed the three letters to Tao Minmin, a flawless girl in the eyes of the boys, and her hated class teacher, as well as a senior boss, Xu Taiyu. Lin Zhenxin's conviction of the letter "exposed" her kind nature, which made the bully Xu Taiyu decide to make friends with her.
Xu Taiyu's nature is not bad, and the bad things he does are not unforgivable. On the contrary, he is good-natured and full of potential. Lin Zhenxin helped Xu Taiyu chase after The school flower Tao Minmin, xu Taiyu helped Lin Zhenxin chase the male god Ouyang Extraordinary, but in the end, when both people can get the person who pursues hard, they find that the original love is the other. At the end of the story, Xu Taiyu immigrated to the United States, Lin Zhenyu also lived an ordinary life, in an ordinary company, bearing the pressure brought to her by work, love, and society, but what she never expected was that a huge surprise was approaching her, which was a casual promise from Xu Taiyu in her youth - let Andy Lau sing to her. Xu Taiyu became the planner of Andy Lau's concert and named the concert "Truly Love You", and many years later, the two reunited.
The plot of this film is really dirt to the slag, but it also moves the audience to a lot. It integrates some of the youth symbols that belong to the post-80s and post-90s generations, so that it can get so much resonance. Taiwan's youth films, indeed filmed the appearance of youth, let the young people see the blood boiling, let the people who are no longer young deeply remorseful, ah, how did I not rebel a little like them at that time? Why should I be a good and boring student? In fact, give you the opportunity to walk through the youth again, you will still become a well-behaved boy in the eyes of teachers, parents, and classmates as you did, and the success of this movie lies in the awakening of the flood beast that we protested to the society in our youth.
Secondly, let me talk about a few feelings that this film has given me. First, regarding youth, how should it be treated? According to the meaning of the movie, the life of skipping class without wearing a high school uniform is imperfect, and under the system of test-oriented education, if it is heard by high school students, I am afraid that it will be accused of inciting public opinion. I think what young people want to see is that the movie is not instigating us to climb over the wall, fight, skip class and skate, and openly incite the masses to fight with the school, but lin Zhenxin's words, only we can decide what we look like! The so-called school rule system or the education of your parents cannot influence who you want to be. Therefore, your youth is your master, not to let you act arbitrarily and arbitrarily, the premise of your freedom and uninhibited is that you must have the correct three views, do not endanger society, do not drag others, so that youth can have vitality and vitality.
Second, the professional ethics of educators. In fact, this film is also an epic struggle between students and teachers without teacher morality, like the May Fourth Movement, when students rebelled against the old society. The new director of instruction was a teacher with no work ethics. Indiscriminately wronging Xu Taiyu, preconceiving that he had too much prejudice against him, and openly denigrating the moral character of students in front of all the teachers and students of the school is a great harm to a weak little soul. Fortunately, Xu Taiyu was strong enough in his heart and did not bother with him. Sadly, in real life, such teachers abound, and such students are rare.
Third, in terms of love choices, will you choose to be happy at first sight or not to get tired of it for a long time? Lin Zhenxin's extraordinary love for Ouyang was only a superficial pleasure for him, which stirred her hormones for a while, but when he could touch him later, he found that he no longer loved him. And she hated Xu Taiyu at first, and found more and more of his advantages through getting along, and became more and more inseparable, which is not tired of being there for a long time. The answer given by the movie is to choose the person who makes you stay tired for a long time, but what I want to reveal is, does the long time really exist? If there is, it's really too hard! If you encounter it, please be sure to cherish it.
Finally, let's talk about the significance of this movie. In general, this movie is a very good film in the youth film, after all, at our age of not watching a youth film, it not only did not make us disgusted, but it aroused our strong resonance, which is not an easy task. This is my youth! My youth should be like this! I think the significance of this film is that it provides some good reference for the shooting of youth films, and provides a direction for reversing the current downturn in the youth film market in the film and television industry. The so-called youth film, not only a small fresh meat expressionless without acting skills can be done, let alone some imaginary absurd plot piled up, it also needs to seek truth from facts, but also needs the director's careful care, in order to really move the audience.
In addition, there is a theme song that catches fire with the film, that is, "Little Luck" sung by Tian Fuzhen, which is also another highlight of the film, and the song and the movie are mutual achievements. Before the release of the movie, this song has been on fire on major online platforms, which undoubtedly created a good trend for the popularity of the movie. After the movie was released in the mainland, it made this song a deep fire. The passion ignited by "Little Luck" is the impulse of every girl to play and sing for the male god after listening to this song.