The LGBT-themed romantic comedy film directed by Chinese director Wu Siwei, "True Heart Half Solution" was released for less than half a month, and the reputation continued to rise.
Wu Siwei, a talented chinese director with a Stanford computer master's degree, became interested in filmmaking after working as a software engineer for a while.
As a Chinese, she can feel the conflict between the two ideas of East and West and the east and the west in the American cultural environment from a young age, which is somewhat similar to Ang Lee, her debut work "Face", and Ang Lee's "Wedding Feast", are similar to the same thing, are about how gay children in the Oriental thinking reconcile with traditional relatives, but the protagonist is replaced by mother and daughter.
In "True Heart Half Solution", Wu Siwei as always shows the thinking about the living conditions of Chinese americans and the attention to the LGBT community, but when these two concerns are integrated, the problem is more complicated, but this is a commercial film after all, so it is different from the complexity of "Face", this movie has a full of "routines" in addition to the fresh content.
<h3 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > character settings are very routine</h3>
Since the film's positioning is a romantic comedy, how to handle this LGBT movie without obscurity is the primary problem.
Wu Siwei positioned the role as a high school student, which simplified a lot of the complex psychology or complex social relationships brought about by the character's own life background.
Ellie: Chinese heroine, a schoolgirl, inferiority, few friends, writing papers for other students to earn living expenses, because paul polished the love letters given to Floys, and inadvertently fell in love with Floys.
Paul: Sports student, kind, cheerful, silly big one, the family makes fried sausages with ancestral secret recipes, because they want to chase Floys, they find Ellie and ask her to polish their love letters.
Floys: School flower, love to read, attention, delicate heart, the object of countless people's crush.
In particular, the setting of the heroine Ellie shows a Chinese "stereotype".
Smart and studious, hard-working, strong self-esteem but some inferiority, do not understand what is the world of flowers and flowers, it is difficult to integrate into the life of local white people. Even her dress... programmer.
To Paul, pure love cute silly big, live out of a humanoid husky, often worried about whether he is talking about to spit out his tongue, although the human setting is simple, but extremely pleasing, which also shows that the male protagonist will not cause any too bad trouble to our two female protagonists, after all, comedy!
As for Floys...
Smart, pretty, obviously loved by many people, but has not always liked this feeling of being loved, trying to find a soul mate, okay, knowing this is enough, don't ask Ming is a high school student, how it is like a round bigger than Ellie.
Through these few simple character settings, we will find that Wu Siwei cut the multi-faceted nature of the characters as much as possible without delaying the development of the plot, although there are also Ellie's mother, Paul's father, and Floys's handsome boyfriend as a side description to make the characters plump, but I have to say that these characters are still classic routines that can be seen everywhere in campus stories.
With character routines, everything is much simpler.
<h3 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > plot direction is very routine</h3>
When we say that the plot of a certain film and television drama is very "routine", we mean, of course, that the plot is very bloody.
But there is a saying, comedy, are in the blood of the dog to seek "joy", because comedy most needs is "coincidence", but where there are so many coincidences in the world, there is no routine in this world, coincidences, it has become a routine.
The love line of the story "True Heart Half Solution" is a love triangle love story, a mention of "love triangle", the audience has a big word "vulgar" in their heads! But the film is still handled cleverly, it is a new wine bottle.
As mentioned earlier, the heroine Ellie unconsciously fell in love with Floys when she helped Paul revise the love letter to Floys, and later, Floys successfully fell in love with Paul, Ellie was sad, who knew that Paul suddenly fell in love with Ellie, Floys was sad, but Ellie could not bear to let Floys be sad, she finally decided to show her heart to Ellie and uncover the fact of writing love letters.
Isn't it very winding, is it very dog bloody?
Fortunately, the details of the director are filled well, and in the development of the plot, the story line that has gradually been perfected is:
Ellie, led by Paul, walked out of her inferiority complex to find her true self.
Paul realized that love is not only one form, but can be changed, and eventually changed the process of making his ancestral secret sausage.
Because Floys is too beautiful, she is confused about not being able to find her heart, but in the end she seems to gradually understand what she wants, and she doesn't want the ex-boyfriend who has a big chest and no brains and only a face.
Well, in a word, everyone has sublimated their thoughts through this love triangle, this is not a love triangle, this is a thought education class.
< h3 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the ending jumps out of the routine, and the strength proves what is "turning the tide"</h3>
Even as mentioned earlier, "True Heart Half Solution" is a comedic love story full of routines.
But you know, the routine is not what you want to set, you can set if you want to. If everyone could play with routines and fill in details like director Wu Siwei, there would not be so many big bad movies in this world.
In order to improve the literary and artistic atmosphere of the film, the director also quoted many famous quotes.
But even if the routine is played perfectly, a perfect routine movie can only be a second-rate movie.
Fortunately, director Wu Siwei did not stop here, and used a blank trick at the end, cleverly pulling the overall level of the film to a new height.
After watching the previous plot, I really thought that the happy silly big Paul would be cannon fodder for the two heroines, but I was completely wrong, near the end, Paul became the most eye-catching person in the whole movie, although he did not get Ellie's love, but his pure and cheerful heart has completely opened the gap between him and Ellie.
Even though Ellie was next to Floys, even though Paul knew she was in love with Floys, he staged a "train chase" that Ellie hated the most, did Ellie really hate it? But when she looked at Paul, she was clearly in tears.
And I thought that the two heroines who must be in love with a kiss kiss kissed, but it was far from what I thought.
Floys is not in love with Ellie, and Ellie, who does not seem so sure that she likes Floys, is more like a vague affection, Ellie rushes up and kisses each other, and they will be indefinite. But this is not the traditional sentimental kiss goodbye, in this separation, there is a kind of youthful throbbing flourishing.
The director's ending is wonderful, sweeping away the sour taste brought by the excessive sensationalism of some of the previous bridges, like eating a refreshing side dish.
Maybe this is the source of the title of "True Heart Half Solution", it is really difficult to fully understand, it is still in the green years, half of the solution, it is already very good.