Due to this year's Spring Festival movies, very hardcore, under the influence of the rest of the waves, the new movies entering February are much more low-key than last year, including 3 romance films, which were released on Valentine's Day not long ago.
However, under the attack of the two blockbusters "The Wandering Earth 2" and "Manjiang Red", although there is an advantage on Valentine's Day, the number of films divided is also very limited.
Among them, "Sadness That Can't Shed Tears" produced by China Film is a better performer, winning 36 million yuan at the box office on the first day with 20.2% of the films.
Pi Ge just happened to watch this one, the evaluation of online netizens, although the praise was mixed, but there were also netizens who scored high scores, compared with last year's romance films in the same schedule, all bad reviews, seems to be much better.
A short comment that is more pertinent, some netizens said:
"He resonates very well with the theme of first love and long-distance relationship, because he has also experienced this long-distance relationship, and now he can watch this movie in the theater with him, and he feels quite happy", spilling a wave of good dog food!
This short comment has received more than 100 likes, and obviously many netizens are touched.
But some people are going to say that some people have resonance, which does not mean that the movie is good!
Indeed, this is also the truth, for domestic romance films, we have seen too many rotten goods, and now everyone is immune, and generally believes that "not rotten is good".
So, is "Sadness That Can't Shed Tears" rotten or not? Let's put it this way, it's not a bad movie, but it's also hard to say.
One
First of all, the advantages of Pige, Pigo's favorite place is that the male and female protagonists in the movie are very "grassroots", no longer the bad story of Cinderella meeting a noble handsome, or a poor boy falling in love with Miss Qianjin.
The two did not experience the kind of "history of struggle" that soared, and until the end of the movie, they were just ordinary people.
Zhao Xinhui (played by He Lantuo) and Lin Hancong (played by Cai Fanxi) were originally a pair of lovers, but later they separated and did not contact again.
Until one day, Zhao Xinhui received a letter sent to her by Lin Hancong, which was an audio tape recording Lin Hancong's memories of Zhao Xinhui.
Since Zhao Xinhui does not have a tape recorder at home, she borrows a walkman from her neighbor's taxi driver Uncle (played by Wang Yaoqing).
When she heard Lin Hancong's voice, Zhao Xinhui decided to ask her uncle to drive and take her to Lin Hancong, so the two embarked on a journey to find lost love and memories.
Because the address of the letter was Taipei City, the first stop for the two was to return to Zhao Xinhui's hometown in Taipei.
Zhao Xinhui and Lin Hancong's mother was originally good girlfriends, so the two have been childhood sweethearts since childhood.
However, Lam's parents divorced, and after his father left home, his mother often drank heavily, and the life of mother and son was extremely difficult.
Once Lin Hancong's mother was hospitalized for treatment, he temporarily lived in Zhao Xinhui's home, earning a living by working in a video store.
So "near the water building", Zhao Xinhui, who was just beginning to open her relationship, soon fell in love with Lin Hancong, and she was ready to go to Kaohsiung to study at university, hoping that Lin Hancong would also go with her.
But in order to take care of his crazy mother, Lin Hancong returned to his home in Hsinchu, and the two began a four-year long-distance relationship.
During this period, every misunderstanding and quarrel was wearing down each other's patience, until finally Lin Hancong went to Xiamen alone, and Zhao Xinhui lost his news since then.
Back to reality, Zhao Xinhui and her uncle found Hsinchu from Taipei, but they failed to find Lin Hancong.
Zhao Xinhui remembered that Lin Hancong once mentioned that he had been to a log cabin on Alishan, so he and his uncle rushed to Alishan, and sure enough, they found the wooden house, and finally saw Lin Hancong, who was thinking about it.
It seems that the story is going to have a happy ending here, but as a "love war movie", how can it be so smooth?
Therefore, when the two reunited, the director arranged a sudden earthquake, Lin Hancong was crushed by the collapsed roof to save Zhao Xinhui, and the two lovers had to live and die again?
Two
Some netizens concluded that in recent years, the routine of domestic romance films will always be "dead" in the end, and the two parties who love each other cannot be consummated, as if it is not a good love film if it is not sadistic.
Therefore, when Pico saw the earthquake, he also had a hunch that the movie was going to fall into the cliché again, but in the end, the story came to a 360-degree reversal.
It turned out that the reunion and earthquake between Zhao Xinhui and Lin Hancong happened a long time ago.
Lin Hancong was not killed in that earthquake, but survived, and the two eventually came together with Zhao Xinhui, gave birth to another son, and lived a happy life.
After entering middle age, Zhao Xinhui suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and her memory slowly declined and became more and more serious, until finally even Lin Hancong, who had been accompanying her, did not recognize her.
In fact, the driver's uncle is the middle-aged Lin Hancong, in order to let his wife remember the past, he thought of a way to drive his wife back to his hometown.
Alzheimer's disease is also commonly known as senile dementia, and the elderly who suffer from this disease will gradually become unable to remember, unable to remember recent events, or unable to recognize family members around them.
In severe cases, it will become dementia, lose self-care ability, and bring great inconvenience to life.
When Zhao Xinhui appeared in the movie, she was always the image of a young girl, which showed that she had lost part of her memory and was a girl in her 20s psychologically.
Until I remembered the past later, the image also changed back to the appearance of the middle-aged Zhao Xinhui (played by Zuo Xiaoqing), and this image change was driven by the plot.
In fact, in the process of advancing the plot, there are also many hints from the scene, such as Zhao Xinhui will forget to close the refrigerator door, and the driver's uncle (Lin Hancong) will help her close it.
The later reveals Zhao Xinhui's condition, and there are also shots of Lin Hancong helping her close the water faucet and refrigerator door every day, echoing before and after, making the audience suddenly feel realized, and also giving birth to warmth.
The age of onset of Alzheimer's disease in women is about 75 years old, and Zhao Xinhui suffers from this disease in middle age, which is actually a little reluctant.
But it is good to be able to be logical and self-consistent, and it can also bring out the topic of Alzheimer's disease and attract the audience's attention to this disease, which Pico feels is quite rare.
Because of this self-justifying and warm and touching ending, some netizens still feel that this film has merit and cannot be classified as a "bad film".
But some deficiencies of the film, and the commotion of the film party, still ruined the movie, resulting in a complete failure to go up at the box office.
Three
The most deadly operation of the film side is to put Xu Guanghan's image in the most conspicuous position in the C position of the propaganda poster, making people think that this is a movie starring Xu Guanghan as the male number one.
In fact, Xu Guanghan only made a cameo appearance, playing senior Chen Xiaoming in the film, the scenes added up to less than 10 minutes, and there was no in-depth portrayal.
I believe that many fans enter the cinema and also go to see Xu Guanghan, after all, he is currently the reddest little fresh meat in Taiwan.
But Xu Guanghan did not appear until the middle of the movie, although the appearance time was brilliant, causing the female audience in the cinema to scream, but he was only a supporting role with few shots.
What is even more difficult to accept is that the senior Chen Xiaoming, played by Xu Guanghan, is set as a dog licking male image who has no reason to like the heroine from the time he appears.
His "fierce attack" on Zhao Xinhui was the cause of the contradiction between Zhao Xinhui and Lin Hancong, but it did not have a substantial impact on the main story.
Later, Zhao Xinhui met Lin Hancong again, and the contradictions and misunderstandings between the two were resolved, and the character of "Chen Xiaoming" completely disappeared.
This kind of "tool man" character has no sense of existence and is also offensive, and Xu Guanghan's fans, of course, find it difficult to accept that their idols are so "ruined".
Due to Xu Guanghan's popularity, it is obviously higher than that of the heroes and heroines Cai Fanxi and He Lantuo, and the film party will naturally make an article around him when it is announced.
This is called being clever but being clever and mistaken, and this kind of "hanging sheep's head and selling dog meat" is the easiest to provoke, and the box office has a lot to do with it.
The story of the movie revolves around the emotional experience of the heroine Zhao Xinhui, and the performance of He Lan as the heroine accounts for an absolute number of scenes.
He Lantuo debuted in the comedy "Youth Feeds the Dog" in 2016, and has participated in more than 30 film and television works so far, with rich performance experience, but his acting skills have not improved.
Some netizens said that her temperament is like a "little sister", and she can't see the "girlishness" from the tone of voice, image, and body language, nor can she see how deep her love for the male protagonist is.
As for the actor Cai Fanxi, although his character image is a little fuller, he can't see anything outstanding in his performance.
Instead, Wang Yaoqing, who plays the middle-aged Lin Hancong (driver uncle), perfectly creates a gentle middle-aged uncle image with a calm performance.
And Zuo Xiaoqing, who plays the middle-aged Zhao Xinhui, although there are not many scenes, but he is comfortable in performance, standing with Wang Yaoqing is very husband and wife, which makes people look comfortable and full of CP.
Four
Although the heroine He Lan looks ordinary, the performance is not satisfactory.
However, Xu Guanghan's cameo, the power of the ending reversal, and the performances of Wang Yaoqing and Zuo Xiaoqing, two old drama bones, all saved the movie and made this romance film less ugly.
Pico feels that it is much better than those romance movies released last year, and the warm happy ending is also satisfactory.
But such a small-cost movie with insufficient highlights, in last year's cold market may make a difference, get released this year's Valentine's Day, under the Spring Festival blockbuster and two Marvel blockbusters, it will be difficult to get a good schedule.
Therefore, the box office of the film has just exceeded 41 million since its release, and the arrangement of films is only 2.5%, and it is estimated that it is difficult to recover the cost.
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