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"It seems that all the stories of youth must be in the summer, the endless summer."
This is the line in the movie "Blue Gate", the youthful love that takes place in the summer in the film, like the love letters you and I once wrote when we were young, simple, childish, and full of hormonal restlessness...
In 2002, "Blue Gate" caused a sensation when it was released, and the two leading actors Gui Lunmeng and Chen Bailin became popular and have since become the youth idols of a generation of young boys and girls.
After 18 years, they are no longer the flower-season teenagers who were in full bloom, but this pure love story is still talked about by netizens and regarded as a classic.
For many people, this "blue door" not only left the youth of Gui Lunmeng and Chen Bailin, but also left the mottled traces of their youth.
His name is Zhang Shihao, he has a cheerful personality, has cute dimples when he laughs, and looks like a sunshine boy.
Her name was Meng Kerou, a pair of clean and clear eyes, like a boy with clean and sharp short hair.
In front of the dark blue pool, the moment he and she looked at each other, the seeds of love began to take root and sprout in Zhang Shihao's heart.
But this was not the first time Zhang Shihao had seen Meng Kerou, as he had noticed this girl with some personality on the way to riding a bicycle after school.
Don't look at Zhang Shihao's debauchery in his daily life, he looks like a cool bad boy, but for love, he is just a blank piece of paper, completely inexperienced.
Zhang Shihao felt that this girl seemed to like him too, otherwise why did he go to the swimming pool at night to find him, always looking for various reasons to approach him?
But he couldn't understand, since she liked him, why did she always keep a straight face and treat herself coldly?
Zhang Shihao did not know that Meng Kerou actually did not have a good feeling for him, she only had to approach Zhang Shihao for the sake of her girlfriend Lin Yuezhen.
Lin Yuezhen has a crush on Zhang Shihao, and she is like a fanatical star chaser, inquiring about any news about Zhang Shihao and quietly collecting everything he discarded.
Basketballs, sneakers, atomic pens, and even the mineral water bottles that Zhang Shihao drank, she was reluctant to throw them in the trash, and Lin Yuezhen's "obsession" made Meng Kerou feel a little uncomfortable.
But with a cowardly personality, she did not dare to confess directly, so she had to let her good girlfriend help to inquire into Zhang Shihao's heart.
Meng Kerou is actually very reluctant to act as this "old man", because in her heart, she does not just regard Lin Yuezhen as a friend.
Every time Lin Yuezhen mentioned Zhang Shihao, Meng Kerou's heart would always involuntarily flood with a little jealousy, and she vaguely felt that she seemed to have surpassed the category of "friendship" for Lin Yuezhen.
Meng Kerou was afraid of this special "feeling", she had never told Lin Yuezhen, she understood that once she said it, she was afraid that even her friends would not be able to do it.
He loves her, she loves him, she loves her—such a complex and entangled emotional relationship, like the bridge section of our common bad idol drama.
However, the film does not have the usual excessive sensationalism of tearing X bridges and making people get goosebumps, but instead gently stirs the secret mood of young boys and girls with unpretentious soft soothing.
"My name is Zhang Shihao, Scorpio, O-type, swimming team, guitar club, good looking!"
Zhang Shihao always repeated this sentence to Meng Kerou, but always got a cold response from Meng Kerou.
He felt full of grievances, like a child who had been repeatedly frustrated: he was not bad, why did Meng Kerou just not like me?
Lin Yuezhen is also like this, she uses Zhang Shihao's atomic pen to constantly write his name, fantasizing that when the pen runs out, Zhang Shihao will fall in love with her.
In "The Blue Gate", they pursue their love with childish actions, immersed in fantasy and infatuation, just like we were once young and ignorant.
Adolescent teenagers are the contradiction between children and adults, entangled in the critical point between naivety and maturity, and love is still only a vague concept in the mind.
This is especially true of Meng Kerou, who is in a whirlpool of feelings, retaining this unspeakable love in her heart and struggling in this helplessness.
Boys love girls, girls love boys, it is perfectly normal for this world, but what is this love of their own?
Meng Kerou did not know how to be good, so she insisted on writing "I am a girl, I love boys", trying to prove that she was "normal".
She began to try to associate with Zhang Shihao, especially after discovering that Yuezhen actually wrote love letters to Zhang Shihao in her own name, she began to "have a cold war" with Lin Yuezhen and turned her attention to Zhang Shihao.
But when they really get along, Meng Kerou is gradually impressed by this simple boy.
She discovers that Zhang Shihao has similar musical tastes to her, and that he will obediently hand over plastic bottles to the garbage cleaner after drinking water, all of which makes Meng Kerou begin to feel close to the boy.
But is this feeling the kind of "love" that girls have for boys?
Meng Kerou couldn't be sure, she hoped to "force" herself to find that feeling of "love" by kissing the boy.
But in front of Lin Yuezhen, she found that she would be unconsciously attracted again, and her previous efforts had become useless.
After reconciling with Lin Yuezhen, Meng Kerou began to deliberately alienate Zhang Shihao, and she told him categorically that she did not like him.
Zhang Shihao couldn't think of her transformation, and he followed Meng Kerou like a child and asked over and over again: Since he didn't like me, why did he want me to kiss you in the first place?
Meng Kerou frankly told Zhang Shihao her "secret", and she hoped that she could become a "normal" girl through Zhang Shihao's kiss.
Zhang Shihao did so, but this gentle kiss did not seem to have any waves in Meng Kerou's heart.
Both were a little lost, but for Meng Kerou, this kiss broke through the shackles and obstacles in her heart, and made her pluck up the courage to do something she had never thought about.
In the playground, when Lin Yuezhen talked about the future of her imagination and Zhang Shihao, Meng Kerou on the side kissed unexpectedly, making Lin Yuezhen's fantasy come to an abrupt end.
After that, Lin Yuezhen cut off all contact between the two, turning a blind eye to Meng Kerou's choice, and her friendship with her collapsed violently.
Although Meng Kerou's heart was empty, although it was very uncomfortable, ending this "vain" friendship in this way also made her let go of the burden in her heart.
She wanted to be a "normal person" in the eyes of the world too much, and she wanted to escape from this fruitless unrequited love.
On the beach, Meng Kerou received a call from Zhang Shihao, who hoped that Meng Kerou could come to the swimming competition, and Meng Kerou was touched, but did not give him a clear answer...
At the end of the swimming competition, Meng Kerou quietly went, she saw Zhang Shihao taking a group photo with other players, he was a little unhappy when he did not get the ranking, but he hid his feelings of loss with a smile.
Meng Kerou was also infected by Zhang Shihao's smile, and the corners of her mouth also slightly raised a smile...
Meng Kerou was lucky to meet Zhang Shihao when she was most confused, and his enthusiasm, simplicity and honesty were all a good medicine to heal her inner wounds.
He was willing to share his secrets with Meng Kerou, and even if he was a virgin, he could not urinate in a straight line, and he did not reserve it.
"If you're 17 years old, all you think about is whether you can go to college, no longer a virgin, peeing can be a straight line, what a happy little friend you should be." 」
Meng Kerou said this on her lips, she didn't want to be like Zhang Shihao, to be such a simple and pure person, who could laugh through her troubles.
At the end of the story, they stand on bicycles in the street, and Zhang Shihao is a little shy but extremely firm to confess to Meng Kerou again.
"If one day, maybe a year later, maybe three years, if you start to like guys, you have to be the first to tell me."
Meng Kerou did not answer, she looked at the back of Zhang Shihao's bicycle, smiling and imagining the not-so-distant future.
What will we be like in a year, three years, five years? What kind of adults will we become?
Meng Kerou did not know the answers to these questions, but she had a beautiful vision for the future, imagining what the future would look like.
"Or many years from now, you'll be standing in front of a blue gate with a few pimples on your face, bathed in the three-o'clock afternoon sun."
"You laugh, I run to you, ask if you're okay, and you nod."
The short summer flew by in a flash, and nothing seemed to happen, but in his and her hearts, it left an unforgettable memory.
Everyone has or still has a "blue gate" in their hearts, which carries the youth of blood, carries pure love, and pins our hopes for the future.
Years later, we have a deeper understanding of love and life, but the blue door bathed in the sun has long disappeared with the passage of youth.
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Ah Zhi
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