"Midsummer Future" is a youth drama film directed by Chen Zhengdao, written by Shen Yang and Zhan Chen, starring Zhang Zifeng and Wu Lei, and starring Hao Lei, Zu Feng, Liu Xiaohai, etc. The film was released in Chinese mainland on July 30, 2021.
The film focuses on the youth growth of the post-00 generation, telling the story of Chen Chen, who is about to take the college entrance examination, Zheng Yuxing, a campus celebrity, and two people with the same frequency of spiritual radio waves who find a lonely kind in the crowd, and in the unsolved youth, they face various confusing problems in campus and family life hand in hand, and bravely go to the future growth story.
Some people say that the hardest thing in the world is to make people you like like yourself. This may also be the design of nature, if everyone can find their favorite person, then all literary and artistic works will not exist. This is a simple truth, but for teenagers, accepting this reality is a process full of inner pain, which is also the meaning of the film "Summer Future".
If you take the previous youth movie as a reference, this is a love movie that "does not directly" talk about love. The hero and heroine meet in a lie. In the process of advancing the story, there is a kind of ambiguity between the male and female protagonists that "friendship is above, lovers are not enough", and under the "assistance" of the mother and the class teacher, they are "forced" to perform a youthful love. It can be said that "Midsummer Future" is a youth narrative that is not routine. It does not deal with the gray hazy trauma of youth, does not output the passionate dreams of personality, does not cross the line of representation of the law of harm in the adult world, and some are just the difficulties locked in the original family relationship and the confusion of adolescent encounters love. In a relaxed narrative rhythm, all this is laid out and explained in the form of "secrets", allowing the audience to find their own answers.
Like the most immediate perception of most viewers, "Midsummer Future" shows a distinct characteristic of the times. Whether it is the setting of Zheng Yuxing's own campus Internet celebrities, or the short video to explain and promote the plot, it reflects the reshaping of campus life by the mobile Internet. Social media in the film is not a flash, but also plays an important role in the promotion of the plot, several important plot twists have WeChat, Douyin and other modern social media figures.
"Midsummer Future" doesn't seem to use the above routine. There are no youth slogans such as "Play chicken blood" such as "Have you won once in your life" in "The Sky of the Burning Wild Boy", "People who are not optimistic are not worthy of shining", "No one applauds and how, we can be the happiest salted fish", only the most daily confusion and confusion of young boys and girls, such as "People I like don't like me" and "Mom and Dad don't understand me". In Chen Zhengdao's shots, young boys and girls are no longer the inner projection of adults, but are reduced to themselves; although the lines do not mention a word of "youth", they show youth everywhere. Therefore, the film has also been truly recognized by young people.
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