I don't know if you have seen a fantasy film of "Supermarket Sleepless"?
The male protagonist finds that he has the superpower to freeze time, so when he works the night shift in the supermarket, he stops the time to depict various women.
It just so happens that there is a recent Taiwanese fantasy love that also uses a similar time freeze-frame meme.
At the 57th Golden Horse Awards, the film received 11 nominations and won five awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing and Best Visual Effects, making it the biggest winner of the night.
However, this award-winning film has caused a lot of controversy.
Some fans feel that the film is clearly packaging the story of the stalker into sweet love.
There are also many people who question that the award is too watery, in addition to music, it is not worthy of the Golden Horse Award.
Even Taiwanese people feel ashamed and persuade mainland friends not to watch it, thinking that such a film is the best in Golden Horse, which is too humiliating.
Is this romance really so bad?
Today we will say two words.
"Vanishing Valentine's Day"
This is a commercial film written and directed by Chen Yuxun, starring Li Peiyu and Liu Guanting, without the blessing of big stars and produced at a small cost.
The plot is very simple, the heroine who is always a quick beat, and the male lead who is always a slow beat, like a rabbit and a turtle, finally fall in love with a wonderful story.
Chen Yuxun is not familiar to many viewers, his masterpiece "Tropical Fish", colorful and full of fantasy colors, has brought fans a magical look of urban daydreaming.
The recent work also has "Forgetful Village" starring Shu Qi, although the reputation and box office are average, but the creativity is more novel, and the core is more cruel.
From these works, it can be seen that Chen Yuxun prefers the unusual settings of ordinary life, adding a little fantasy color to the realistic story, and the same is true of this "Disappearing Valentine's Day".
At the beginning of the story, there is a suspense left.
The day after Valentine's Day, a woman who was red and swollen from the sun ran to the police station to report the crime.
My day was gone, and it was just gone on Valentine's Day.
As soon as you wake up, the time skips Valentine's Day to the next day, who stole the disappeared yesterday?
This woman's name is Yang Xiaoqi, she is an acute child, and everything is one step faster than others.
When I was a kid, I danced faster than people half a beat, played games and never snapped up photos of her eyes — because she would always blink before the shutter.
When she grew up, her biological clock was one step ahead of the alarm clock, and she worked as an ordinary counter receptionist in the post office, living an ordinary life without any bright colors.
When he was studying, his father lied about buying bean blossoms, ran away from home, and disappeared, and his life and death were uncertain.
The remaining mother worked hard to support the three brothers and sisters.
When xiaoqi grew up, she worked alone in Taipei, and other workers were crammed into a small apartment, living in a depressed life.
The emotional life is completely blank, yearning for love, but the one who comes to the post office to meet romance, and even to see the daughter-in-law, has always been the flower of the post office next to her, not her.
As a sustenance, she collected a variety of travel books, as well as travel postcards whose recipients are unknown.
She took pictures of these unclaimed postcards and sent them to Facebook, pretending that she had been there, old Versailles.
However, later she learned that Amy, who often liked her and left a message, was actually her mother.
Not easy, before the thirty-year-old Valentine's Day, Xiao Qi's life appeared a bright color:
She met a fitness expert with a first-class figure, and the other party seemed to fall in love with her at first sight.
Casually two sentences, it will exaggerate her to the heavens and the earth.
What is even more exaggerated is that he said that he would take care of her work, and the next day the man appeared in front of her workstation with a loving bento.
Carefully prepared bento boxes, as well as unique contact information, and the other party's invitation to watch a movie together,
Xiao Qi's heart without waves suddenly rippled.
The other party's greasy and exaggerated words easily deceived her and made her begin to look forward to the future romantic life with the other party.
However, a long-awaited Valentine's Day trip did not take place, and Xiaoqi woke up on the day after Valentine's Day.
Disappeared for a day, and there were inexplicable sunburns on his body.
Confused, when she passed a photo studio, she found a photo of her smiling and looking forward to the seaside.
From the owner of the photo studio, she learned that the photo was taken by a man named Ah Tai.
The story progresses to this point, the movie is already halfway through, and our male protagonist slowly appears.
It turned out that he was the man who swallowed slowly, sent a plain letter to the post office every day, and loved to take pictures.
Contrary to Xiao Qi, Ah Tai is a gentle personality, always slowing down in everything he does.
When I was a child, I played with rock-cutter cloth with other people, and I always shot one step late, so no one wanted to play with him.
Lonely, when he was a child, he injured his leg and met Xiao Qi, who was also injured and hospitalized in the hospital.
The short companionship allowed them to form a friendship.
However, Xiao Qi, who is doing things in a fiery way, has long forgotten the agreement between the two, even if the two are reunited in middle school or even after work, she has not been able to recognize Ah Tai.
The chronic son of Atai, unable to do ordinary work, went around and became a bus driver, only limited speed 40 yards, suitable for his temperament.
However, the world is conserved.
Athai, who is always a beat slower than others, has more time than others, and over time, he has one more day than others.
And Xiao Qi, who is always one step faster than others, will be one day less than others.
Finally on Valentine's Day, Atai found that time had stopped,
He found The Frozen Xiaoqi and spent a day of romantic dating with her at a secret base by the sea.
Many people criticize, the second half of Ah Tai, fiddling with Xiao Qi, and taking photos with her, like a very perverted.
Xiao Qi, who has no memory of this day's time, actually fell in love with each other because of Ah Tai's letters over the years, and even moved to the place where Ah Tai received the letters, and waited for him for a year, which was quite unreasonable.
But in fact, Xiao Qi was originally a person who desperately longed for love.
Just like treating a greasy liar, you can see through it at a glance, but Xiao Qi has a heart planted in it.
Athai, who had a crush on her for many years, had not ruined her life.
After discovering that she met the male god, she did not go to the obstruction, but collected evidence of the man's leg splitting fraud, and even more unevenly, and fought with the other party before Valentine's Day.
It is also said that this day's date is like a daydream of Ah Tai, and for Xiao Qi, there has always been someone who is in love with an ordinary and ordinary her.
Compared with other films traveling through time and space, such as the hit "Untouchable Lover" and "Your Name", whether it is the effect of time and space, or the proposition of saving the world, "Vanishing Valentine's Day" is very small, just focusing on how two people with very different personalities come together.
From the shooting, it can also be seen that the crew has limited funds, such as the suspended Xinyi District scene, in fact, did not use special effects, but the crew ended the street shooting before 10 a.m., and began to prepare for the position and action of the car and passers-by at 3 a.m.
Many people can't understand why it has become a big winner in the Golden Horse, because looking at the Golden Horse Awards in previous years, whether it is nominated or awarded, it is a work of social thinking, such as "Big Buddha Plus", "Blood Guanyin", "Sunshine", which have humanistic feelings and satirize the dark reality of the film.
And "Disappearing Valentine's Day", just a qualified commercial fantasy romance, turned out to be a big winner in The Golden Horse?
In fact, from the side, it can also be seen that the Golden Horse is not as good as before, and it is stuck in its own way.
Let go of the prejudice against the Golden Horse, maybe you can see the beauty of this movie.
Just like Mu Ne's Ah Tai in the film, played by Liu Guanting, in "Sunshine", is a violent and gloomy tragic character Caitou.
In this film, a character who seems to be a little obscene is portrayed as somewhat cute.
Different types of films, good actors will present different chemical elements.
In fact, in the end, whether it is a fast shot or a slow shot, the final theme is what the director wants to say, love yourself.
It's not pessimistically "no one loves you", but "someone loves you", so love yourself well.
Have you ever loved yourself today?