"True Heart Half Solution", the best youth movie I have seen in recent years.
Before expressing the point of view, it is necessary to first smooth the plot, the male protagonist (Paul) likes the female second (Aster), find the female protagonist (Ellie) ghostwriting, launch a crazy love letter attack, one after another, the female protagonist found that she and the female second in the painting of film books and other more literary and artistic spiritual level, there are many soul resonance spectrum, that is, the common language, the female protagonist gradually developed feelings for the female second, but at the same time, the male protagonist and the female protagonist have been together for a long time, and there are some unclear and unclear complex emotions in it.
First of all, I don't agree with the outside world's simple classification of "True Heart Half Solution" as "Ji Film" and "Gay Film", because Ellie and Aster can not be regarded as real lesbians, Ellie will put down her armor in front of Paul to show her weakness, will silently help Paul submit articles to food critics, will cry because Paul chases the train, there is more than pure friendship between them, and Aster has a fiancé, will also fall in love with Paul after ghostwriting, and does not refuse Elie's strong kiss, So Ellie and Aster can be counted as bisexual, and it is actually not rigorous for film friends to characterize the movie as an "LGBT" movie.
Not to raise the bar, not to be more true, I am just worried about "lesbian", this preconceived tone will limit the thinking of different audiences, simplistic attribution will make people lose their thinking, so that they will not feel that they have anything to do with them, purely with a curious psychology to look at the movie.
In fact, no matter how intricate and intertwined the relationship between Ellie, Paul and Aster is, at the end of the movie, we only need to look at the state of each of them alone, and we will find that those love and love are just an experience of life, those people are not the most important, the most important thing is what kind of yourself you have become, so I classify "True Heart Half Solution" as a youth movie, because it explores how teenagers discover themselves, accept themselves, and grow up with it.
Ellie, a single-parent Asian girl with low self-esteem, with the help of Paul, came out of her own narrow world, from the car guard booth to the campus collective, to go out of the town to study, Ellie became more and more confident, the pattern vision is getting higher and higher, she realized from "love" The growth is, "To be bold enough, to keep trying, to have the courage to approach, and then fail, even if you destroy your good paintings, just for the opportunity to have great works."
Paul, at the beginning, he has developed limbs and has a simple mind, he likes Aster, purely because of her beauty, he can't understand the soul of Ellie and Aster, he just wants to date and eat and push down, nevertheless, Paul is a very self-sacrificing person, he is willing to learn for Aster, willing to change, willing to become what Aster likes, but after he likes Ellie, he finds himself wrong, "Love is not pretending, It is not that he did not love them in the way that others wanted them to, and he stopped loving them, there are many ways to love", and it is also because he realized this truth that he dared to ignore his mother's objections and made up his mind to improve the monski sausage of the ancestral secret recipe, because he knew that he did not love his mother anymore, there were other ways of expression of love, there was no need for too much self-sacrifice.
Aster, her outstanding appearance, she is wrapped up in the mainstream circle, she has been wandering and struggling outside the circle, after this relationship, I believe she will have the courage to reject her fiancé, refuse to be arranged life, brave and determined to pursue her own spiritual world, even if it is just a simple re-painting.
In this three-person relationship, there is no loser, all have gained growth and sharp changes, this is what a youth campus movie should look like, the campus is not only leg splitting, cheating, abortion, fighting, bullying..... More than that, the people who teach you to grow.
Some film friends believe that the story of "True Heart Half Solution" is not complete, because we don't know what the ending of the three people is? Was Ellie and Paul together? Or is Aster and Ellie together?
If there is such a question, it can only be said that you have not fully understood the movie, because the name of the movie already tells us, "True Heart Half Solution", half solution is not fully understood the meaning.
For high school graduates like Ellie, Paul, and Aster, their lives have only just begun, their understanding of love and sincerity is still only half understood, and over time, they will continue to grow and cognitively shape, and it is still too early to end anything.
I really liked the open-ended ending of the film, where Paul sent Ellie on a long journey, and since then all three of them are about to start a new stage of life and start the next half solution.
Life is still a long way, just slowly understand it.