Following "Coast Village Cha cha cha", there has recently been a new drama that is bland but very sweet.
Just two episodes have rushed to the Douban 9 points, the momentum is very fierce.
As of today, it has dropped slightly to 8.8 points, but it is still so high!
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At first glance: youth campus, excellent students and poor students fall in love, ten years later.
Three keywords can almost show the superficial ideas of "That Year, Our Summer".
But in the saccharin-filled inner-roll market, it has become one of the few mints: cool, degreasing, and refreshing. With the gentle breeze sending the word of spring: the beauty of youth has never gone far.
Come to think of it, this is the special existence of "That Year, Our Summer".
Even if you still tell the story of the routine, even if you are drunk and spit out the truth, even if the hero saves the United States at the moment of the car accident, the design of the scene has become a rotten stem, but there is always some sincerity and truth, and it is low-key in the subtleties.
What's even stronger is that "That Year, Our Summer" and the comics are broadcast simultaneously, the comics will focus on the stories of getting along in high school, and the series will deconstruct and reconstruct cause and effect in multiple flashbacks and interludes, focusing more on the encounter between the two ten years later. This two-way broadcast mode also brings a double sweet pet critical hit.
The story is relatively simple, if you go to its essence, only summarize the hot search points, basically you can use "excellent students ten years later to become a small white-collar worker of the B society, for the work to talk about cooperation to find that the other party's big guy is the lover he once dumped!" "To generalize roughly.
In 2011, Xueba Yanxiu and Cui Xiong were forced to make a documentary about the theme of high school students, and the two looked at each other unfavorably, Yanxiu looked down on Cui Xiong's "uselessness", and Cui Xiong did not like Yanxiu's "self-centered". The two quarreled continuously, and the situation was everywhere.
The producer asked the two of you what you think you would look like in ten years?
Yan Xiu is confident that he can become a good leader and go to the peak of life, while Cui Xiong only wants to live a peaceful life and comfortably have nothing else to ask for.
The common hope of the two is that after ten years, the two will not intersect again.
At this point, it can be clearly seen that it is the beginning of a happy enemy. The two people who seem to have no intersection are broken and bound together because of unexpected events, and contradictions increase in awkwardness, and conflicts escalate.
But if you come over, your aunt will smile and look at the pure sweet romantic and shy love buds that only exist in the student days, sigh the beauty of simple feelings, and lament that youth is gone.
Yes, like the dog-blood plot of all Mary Sue novels, this pair of "filmed protagonists" who are absolutely different from each other's three views, goals, and ideals are in love.
Under some gradual fragmentary relationships, we see Yanxiu constantly asking Cui Xiong every day:
"If you can't get into college, if I go to networking, if I'm so sick, if I'm going to go abroad as an exchange student, if I go into the workplace and go far away..., what will you do?".
For the first time, Cui Xiong thought seriously, answered sincerely, and repeatedly stressed that he would always stick to her.
When Yan Xiu heard the answer, she happily asked, "Do you like me so much?" Cui Xiong shyly lowered his head and quickly changed the topic, but his expression was full of pampering, and Yan Xiu suddenly became angry after hearing the answer, forcing him to ask "Do you really like me"...
The active and passive nature of girls and boys in romantic relationships is clear.
The second time, Cui Xiong, who was waiting for Yan Xiu to leave class in the library, suddenly received a call from Yan Xiu, and when Yan Xiu saw Cui Xiong's attitude of caring about himself, he affirmed Cui Xiong's sincere love for himself, and his heart was satisfied, so he hung up the phone and went to class.
The first crack in the feeling appeared in the girl's "self", which seemed to have never considered Yanxiu's mood and emotions.
The third time, Yan Xiu once again strengthened the hypothesis that nothing would happen, and Cui Xiong pointed out Yan Xiu's attempt to break: Yan Xiu just liked to see Cui Xiong's pained look.
But Yan Xiu was very aggrieved: I just wanted to hear him say the answer I wanted. The love mode here almost encapsulates the essence of the nearly twenty years of Mary Sue idol dramas, and also writes the attachment relationship between Yan Xiu and Cui Xiong.
Yan Xiu's insecurity in love comes from the lack of love in the original family. As of now, we can see that Yanxiu has lived with her grandmother since she was a child, and it seems that her parents have not been present at her side. This kind of child who has not received the healthy love of his parents is lonely in his growth, and the desire and absorption of love is also continuous.
But this kind of demand that exceeds the average threshold of society will cause her to get along and interact with others, and she will be inferior at the root. It's also why she constantly puts infinite "ifs" of things that don't happen or even won't happen and asks for answers. Fear of losing, so be sure to hear the promises of others with your own eyes.
She clearly knows that she is missing and has nothing, and she is working harder and harder to make up for it with material and object excellence, and to make up for the lack of heart with the praise and boasting of others. But in fact, for them, the more they are satisfied, the more clearly they will see their natural lack, and the deeper the sense of inferiority in their bones.
She does not want others to enter her world, afraid to communicate with people, so she uses a false bubble of "I am the first and I am excellent" to mold herself into a high-cold strong woman image, deceiving herself and comforting herself: this is why I don't have many friends.
The more she has no friends, the more she constantly fills herself with heavy workload, this vicious circle makes Yanxiu forget the abnormal social attributes of connecting with people, and also seals her desire and courage to fall in love. After releasing the pigeons of the blind date 4 times in a row, Yan Xiu was fiercely humiliated by the blind date. Society gave her a slap, but she was drunk in the wine.
In Yan Xiu's body, we see too many group portraits in society.
There are people outside the people, and Party A and Party B are on the water side. Nothing is an absolute victory, and the attribute of the victory group in this life is not chosen overnight. Even being able to meet in time in the present moment and continue to make a positive leap forward in self-need is only one of the main roads to Rome.
Cui Xiong's family is harmonious and happy. The parents who opened the small restaurant said that they hated the reality but wrapped Cui Xiong full of love, did not say any big truth, and never used various requirements to impose Cui Xiong. Cui Xiong began painting five years ago and became a well-known but low-key architectural illustrator Gao Wu, but has always kept his family secret, only his best two friends know.
His parents, who think That Choi-hung is a street hustler, continue to let Choi-hung carry the cabbage every day, but they don't force Him to do anything after knowing that Choi-hung stays up all night to paint. This way of life in the countryside mirrors Cui Xiong's leisurely attitude towards life. And the parents' support for Cui Xiong has also become the source of Cui Xiong's strong heart for self-healing.
Cui Xiong also has many friends, and the friendship relationship can be maintained for a long time, and even developed into working together ten years later. They will pull Cui Xiong to the gym when he is not going out at home, and will help Cui Xiong move cabbage together. Getting along with Cui Xiong is obviously comfortable, not tired, and relaxed.
He will use a kind of calmness, calmness, and tranquility to create a stress-free, absolutely secure atmosphere for you to get along. Come to think of it, this is also the reason why Yanxiu will be with him before.
Cui Xiong did not think about what he must become, what to do, he looked indifferent to fame and fortune, no desire and no demand, to a certain extent, this also made the people around him feel free that others did not have. Cui Xiong has his own attracting aperture, like a sponge constantly absorbing other people's emotions, but rarely has his own outbreak.
He is like a tree hole of infinite abyss, with endless inclusion and sea containment. His indisputability, in the eyes of some people, will be labeled as unmotivated and inactive, incompetent, and wanderer. But ten years later, his low-key fame also shows that he is not like this. In comparison, Cui Xiong is confident. He is strong inside, has a clear understanding of himself, and can constantly make himself more determined in the inner world.
Admittedly, Cui Xiong is not absolutely perfect. He would repeatedly splash water and sprinkle salt 50 times after breaking up with Yanxiu, and would mistakenly think that NJ, a popular star who liked his own work, wanted to paint for free. The subsequent side effects of inner strength will also weaken the signals of understanding the outside world to a certain extent, or switch to other channels. He is naïve in a certain aspect, and he also finds a basis for Yanxiu, who has the opinion to solve the problem, perhaps this is also the reason why he is willing to stick to Yanxiu all the time.
The insistence of only painting architecture and not painting people, and the saying that "only architecture will not change and flow away like people and time", actually reflects Cui Xiong's concern for Yanxiu from another dimension. Sober people, but also often the most absurd.
Ten years later, the two reunited on business, and the awkward relationship between the former boyfriend and girlfriend made it difficult for the two to deal with. But everything collided together. Because of the popularity of the documentary, the original producer decided to re-shoot the life of the two ten years later. Choi-hung's good friend Kim Ji-woong is now a producer, PD, followed by the producers who made documentaries in the past. At this time, the task of the sequel falls on Kim Ji-woong's body, and all the characters converge in both directions in the life line and career line.
At this point, I have to say a little bit about the exquisite structure of "That Year, Our Summer". If there is no narrative story that is dismantled and pieced together with suspense and blank space, there will not be so many people who want to think of the same youth love account.
Using ten years as the boundary, the time dimension of the two people is pulled apart, and the difference in their sense of age also reflects the good intentions of "That Year, Our Summer"; with the documentary set shooting mode, the two people know each other and get along in the camera, and to a certain extent, they also use the ingenuity of the fake drama to closely follow the name of the documentary: "Retrograde".
Ten years ago, young people were full of yearning for the future.
Just like the "Retrograde" in the play exploded ten years later, netizens said that they saw the breath of youth in them, saw the shadow of time, and felt real and interesting.
Youth, for the individual, is a time-sensitive beauty. But for the world, there is no shelf life. Cui Xiong's salt boyfriend makes people see the youthful cuteness given by the campus time. Yan Xiu's clever cunning also allows people to find the object of projection in countless memories.
Ten years later, Yan Xiu became a small leader, seemingly realizing his dream, but in fact he was getting more and more out of control of his life. Cui Xiong lived a life that seemed to do nothing, and also fulfilled the prediction he had made about himself, but the breakup with Yan Xiu has always become the uncomfortable thorn in his life.
If we say that the objective impression that youth leaves on everyone is not too bad.
Then, the love in youth has become one of the few marks in the beauty. If the finish is good, then the notch is the intersection of two parallel lines. If the ending is not happy, then the notch is a scar that can never be removed.
Love has no appearance, but it is partial. Everyone who experiences it has a deep experience. Love does not have any offensive weapons, but once the fire is fired, it is scaly.
"That Year, Our Summer" has only aired two episodes so far. In the next scene, in the end, because Yanxiu's publicity project was done by the architectural designer whom Cui Xiong most admired, Cui Xiong reluctantly agreed to cooperate with Yanxiu.
The sequel to the documentary also began to kick off, and two former lovers who had been awkward to each other and had sworn to be dead and old sat together in front of the camera again.
This evil relationship will become the main driving force of the follow-up main line.
What is even more exciting is that the female second NJ loves Choi Wo and Wu, from Choi Hung's painting to liking Choi Hung himself, thinking that his clumsy gesture perfectly fits his taste.
The producer of the upcoming documentary, Kim Ji-woong, has always had a crush on Yeon-so, and this shooting also has some personal emotional pinching, which has also become the touchstone of this complex and delicate emotional journey.
With the familiar recipe and familiar taste, can "That Year, Our Summer" still give a different taste? It can only be said that I hope that the character relationship of this four-person love crossover line that has been used by major idol dramas for more than twenty years will not go to the road of rotten and rotten.
I hope that "That Year, Our Summer" can continue to continue the beauty of youth and the clarity of first love, so that youth will never grow old. Let us see that this decade has passed but has not gone far.
That's why we love youth stories.
There are youthful and crazy impulses, delicate and sensitive sensibilities, turbulent and displaced stimuli, and crazy and fearless bravery.
As if as long as youth is still there, there will be countless summers waiting for us. You can splurge and you can wield it freely.
The road of youth is stumbling, there is no right or wrong. Although fairy tales, they are especially precious.