The author of this article is @Ghost Foot Seven of the Xiaowan family
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If the three favorite words of couples in the world are "I love you", then the three words that are most hated are "long-distance love".
Indeed, there is nothing worse for lovers in love than separating the two places, and this week's new film puts this mood directly on the title of the film .
"I really hate long-distance relationships"
The story does indeed run this title through the entire film, Zhao Yiyi (Ren Min) and Xu Jiashu (Xin Yunlai) are a young couple, after the college entrance examination, the two who have been in a crush for many years finally came together.
But the sweetness has not tasted much, and the two are separated from each other and begin a difficult long-distance relationship.
Even if you say good morning and evening for tomorrow's text message/phone call, you can't avoid feeling sorry and lonely when you need each other's company, as a youth romance film, "I really hate long-distance love" shows the challenges that long-distance couples encounter.
"Text messages have no tone, phone calls have no expression" is still just a small problem of communication between the two, and what is more fatal is that the absence of important times for each other makes the two people who once loved each other drift apart.
The various suggestions of other people, friends and girlfriends, the meetings and "surprises" that appear around them, the two young and loving people who are helpless and brave and strong believe in love, which may be the best portrayal of youth.
Exactly how a long-distance relationship should be discussed is a difficult question for all people who are going through and going through this stage.
Zhao Yiyi and Xu Jiashu in "I Really Hate Long-Distance Love" are still just experiencing the "long-distance" of being admitted to college and separating the two places, and from other classic stories, perhaps we can learn more experience.
When it comes to long-distance love stories, Xiao Wan's first thought may be "Seattle Sleepless".
Tom Hanks plays Sam, a single father who lives in Seattle, and through the emotional hotline of the radio, he is entangled with Anne, a journalist living in the eastern United States.
The cleverness of this classic romance is that what stands in the way of the two protagonists is not just a physical distance, but also a process of crossing his own inner barriers – Sam has not yet come out of the grief of losing his wife, and Anne already has a fiancé who seems to be the right door...
True love can overcome distance, but also allow us to have the courage to make choices, whether it is young people who have just graduated, or men and women who have entered different stages, love will never choose the object of arrival, but will only gradually bring people who are far apart closer.
Around the results of the two-way rush, the story of long-distance love has written too many touching endings, and has also written countless regrets.
For example, Makoto Shinkai's famous work "5 Centimeters per Second" is also a love story about the separation of youth.
The love affair that has not yet blossomed in the juvenile era has become a hidden pain in the heart after the hasty separation, and the noble tree and MingLi in the story are not only separated by distance, but also miss each other in the sea of people, and the "different place" here is not only in a different place, but more like being in a different world.
When it comes to this kind of long-distance sadistic love that "stabs the knife" to the audience, Makoto Shinkai is naturally a good hand.
In "The Sound of Stars" 5 years before "5 Centimeters per Second", Makoto Shinkai has already told a story of a long-distance relationship, or even an "alien love".
The girl Mikako becomes an astronaut and goes to participate in various exercises in the depths of the universe, while the boy on Earth, XiaoSheng, receives regular greeting text messages from the other party.
But as the distance gets farther and farther apart, the time it takes to receive messages gets longer and longer.
By the time Xiaosheng received the news that Mikako's battle was completely destroyed, 8 years had passed, and it was at this time that he received Mikako's last text message...
Separated by different planets, or even different galaxies, lovers can't even leave everything and rush to each other's side, and what is isolated on both sides of space and time is "true long-distance love".
Crossing distance, time, and even life and death is the greatest power of love.
In "Untouchable Lovers", two lovers of different time and space overcome many impossibilities, and even rewrite their original fates and complete the encounter across all obstacles.
Can't touch each other's bodies, can't see each other's appearance, can't even hear each other's voices, can only rely on a mailbox to complete communication, and it is in such a small gap that love can grow into a towering tree.
In fact, in the end, whether it is a real long-distance relationship in reality or a more abstract relationship separating two places in a fantasy story, these stories touch on one of the important cores of emotional problems: companionship.
Lovers who want to share every happy moment with their loved ones, and also long for warm comfort at every low, hugs and kisses should have a temperature and touch, and lovers who can't get these for various reasons experience a difficult wait.
Surviving a long distance is a lifetime, which is the commitment of countless long-distance lovers to each other, and it is also an encouragement to themselves. After experiencing suspicious hesitation, careful temptation, and repeated entanglements, they still have to choose to open their hearts and face them with their loved ones.
"I really hate long-distance love" writes about the distress and powerlessness that long-distance lovers are facing, but more about the persistence and courage of common hardships, from the promise across the train window to the continued persistence of upgrading from "different place" to "foreign country", Zhao Yiyi and Xu Jiashu will continue to go.
Long-distance relationships are unknown challenges for lovers, but they may also be potential treasures, and feelings that are hidden under time and distance may gain more after many trials.
Because of work, school, responsibilities, and even the pandemic, many people and loved ones are separated, and we experience vulnerability, confusion, helplessness and loneliness.
But at the same time, it is also love and trust that make us rekindle our confidence in repeated exchanges and comforts, and choose to persevere between persistence and abandonment.
In this May Day file where the epidemic has not yet dissipated, "I really hate long-distance love" as the only newly released love movie, which is also the reason why countless of us insist on it -
I really hate long-distance relationships, but I really like you.
I really feel all kinds of disappointments, but I also really still look forward to it;
We've had too many hardships, but we still believe it.
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