Little sister in love with little sister? A story of "wingman" turning right - "True Heart Half Solution" film review

It is estimated that most people who have seen this movie will spit on the cheesy movie name of "Campus Love", which is called "The Half of It" in English, so "True Heart Half Solution" is obviously more appropriate, but for people who have not seen this movie, the latter will somewhat make people a little confused. In any case, the movie is still a good movie, although it feels a little less flavorful, but I don't know where.

The movie drama is relatively simple, telling the story of the Asian heroine Ellie helping the male protagonist Paul chase the school flowers, according to the conventional routine Paul should finally like the heroine Ellie, and then the two are married, so a proper campus youth comedy movie. In fact, the first half of the movie is also based on this tone. As a non-professional gunner, the heroine Ellie helps her classmates write papers for a daily basis to subsidize their families, and the teacher only turns a blind eye. At this time, the male protagonist Paul found Aili and said that he liked the school flowers, the reason was nothing more than that the school flowers were beautiful and kind (mainly beautiful), but he was only muscular and had limited language organization ability, so he hoped that Aili would help polish the content of the love letter. One after the other, the two formed a school flower hunting alliance. But miao on the magic in the end the heroine liked the school flower, see the back of the direct call stimulation (forehead).

As mentioned above, when I saw half of it, I actually thought that the film should be okay to remake into a domestic one, but after the emotional drama between Ellie and the school flower, I silently dispelled this idea. Although the Chinese people are not cold to this kind of subject, because there is no shackles of faith, but in the end it can not be placed under the sun, I dare to say that if one day this kind of theme can enter the domestic theater in a bright and upright way, then it will be a historic moment.

The whole theme of the movie should be about what love is, and be bold in facing the things you really love. Paul was a man who always knew what he wanted, and Ellie knew but didn't dare to say it, and the school flower didn't know the truth of his heart and didn't dare to face it. Paul's love of food slowly changed Ellie, so Ellie finally accepted the arrangement of studying abroad. After Aili's change, he also began to affect the school flower, and it turned out that the school flower was a rebellious person, whether it was choosing a subject, a friend or a husband, and he followed the arrangements of others. However, at the end of the movie, she finally listened to her heart and began to choose her favorite painting, although it was not explained in the movie, but it was estimated that she and her fiancé had failed.

But to be honest, there are two more confusing points in this movie, one is Ellie's feelings for Paul:

Ellie helped Paul chase the school flowers, but then the two became acquainted, especially when Paul helped her out, she should be grateful, if it were not for the final train scene, I think the relationship between the two should always be maintained at the level of friends. But at the end of the movie, When Ellie and Paul say goodbye at the train station, I'm a little confused when Ellie says cowards to Paul before getting on the train. When Paul chases the train, Ellie sees the tearful picture, what is he trying to explain? There is a sense of friendship between them that goes beyond friendship? Or the director considers the problem of film release, shooting this picture is to make a simple campus romance film through editing (that is, to cut off some scenes of the heroine and the school flower). The train section is just to echo the stupid setting that when the two people watched the movie together, Ellie complained about the silly setting that the movie train lovers were separated, and the male protagonist would definitely chase the train.

In fact, at the end, Ellie is crying at the same time, secretly watching or on other people's reactions, she feels that her actions may attract the attention of others, in fact, no one pays attention to her, this should be an interpretation of the beginning of the movie "others are hell" statement, do not care about other people's opinions, usually others will not notice you at all. If you care too much about what others think, you will live a very unhappy life.

Another place that is not quite clear is that the heroine Ellie wears autumn clothes to soak in the hot spring:

The school flower takes Ellie to a secret hot spring bath, but Ellie still wears autumn clothes when she goes into the water, which may be to say that Ellie's sexual orientation is not very clear. However, at this time, it can be seen that the school flower's feelings for Ellie are not ordinary. Because the school flower is a Christian, and the church feels that homosexuality is going to hell, she is afraid to face her true thoughts. However, I also liked the feeling of being with Ellie.

Finally, it is more interesting to say, because Ailey is Asian, according to the film, she was born in Xuzhou (hometown), came to the United States after the age of five, but she did not want to live in Mandarin for five years. So checked the actor's resume, it turned out to be born in Shanghai, not long after birth was adopted by the American couple of Chinese, in short, is the type of like, haha.