This year's summer slot because there is no dark horse and the emergence of blockbusters, resulting in the overall box office decline in July, so it is also urgent to warm up.
And Zhang Zifeng and Wu Lei's new film from the beginning of the fixed file, it is like carrying the banner of salvation,
Less than a week after its release, the box office exceeded 200 million, and the degree of discussion on various platforms was also rising.
Have you always felt that Zhang Zifeng is still just a neighbor sister, and the three-stone brother is really just a younger brother?
But as everyone knows, people have already made love films, and even been milked for the best youth Chinese film in 2021.
So how good is the youth movie of such a big battle?
"Summer Future"
At the beginning of the film's marketing, it used "Zi Feng's sister and Wu Lei's brother's sweet campus love" as a wealth code, which harvested a lot of attention.
Originally scheduled to be released on Tanabata but was temporarily promoted, when the little sister happily stepped on the premiere to watch the whole film in the cinema, she found another way to open this youth movie:
NO CP, NO Bumps, this is the story of a straight woman who almost became a half-wife.
18 years old is a complicated age, the young girl Chen Chen experienced the failure of the college entrance examination, the change of her parents' marriage, and a clueless first love.
Unfortunately, all the stories are related to lies, and her growth is to face these lies and then poke them with her own hands.
Because his parents hid the news of divorce because of his college entrance examination, Chen Chen deliberately deceived his parents that he failed the college entrance examination because he was in love with his classmate Zheng Yuxing.
She hopes to reunite her parents by repeating a year's worth of years.
However, the parents turned to the class teacher after learning about this, and the class teacher turned his head and made it public in front of the whole class.
At this time, Zheng Yuxing and Chen Chen did not know each other, so Zheng Yuxing, who learned of this matter, was also surprised and confused.
Teenager Zheng Yuxing fell in love with a DJ named MING, who flew to find MING before the college entrance examination but was ruthlessly rejected on the grounds that "you are too childish".
Xiao Zheng, who caused sadness, did not even participate in the college entrance examination.
So the fate of the arrangement so that the two people who are ready to repeat the study so coincidentally divided into the same repeat class, but also because of the misunderstanding, the two know each other,
Chen Chen really plucked up the courage to approach Zheng Yuxing because of the "secret" - she discovered the secret of his lost love.
In the process of getting along, Chen Chen found that Zheng Yuxing was a very interesting person:
He would talk in front of her about what electronic music was; he would play her guitar and sing "Hugs";
Will make the song into a birthday present for her; will take her to the club bungee...
In the first half of the film, the film gives almost every element of youth you can think of:
Summer, the pool, the hidden love, the teenage girls who fight against the world, the kiss at the music festival, the guitar, the hug, the code on the exam paper, your name,
Finally, the theme song "Mayday Ashin".
The girl's feelings have an unexpected beginning because of a lie, and they also have the best time that others can't have.
This is the best first love story that little sister can think of.
Of course, it would be nice if the movie ended here.
But this film gives a reversal of dog blood, and to what extent is this reversal outrageous?
It's like you have a pair of golden children and jade girls who have loved for many years and finally have a lover who finally gets married, and you are happy to give your share of money to participate in the wedding.
As a result, when the bride lifts the hijab when the ceremony is almost completed, you find out: No, this bride who does not know???
Since the two flew to Sanya, Xiaomei fell into a blind spot of understanding...
Children, you are all in the fourth year of high school and do not study well, even if you have learned not to say goodbye to the stars?
Is the screenwriter trying to tell us that youth is not only learning, but also the yearning and pursuit of the future, the courage and perseverance to move forward?
Zheng Yuxing was deafened by his father's slap in the left ear (domestic violence, domestic violence), but what is even more shocking is that three years later, he actually wore a hearing aid on the DJ stage!
Hello, are you okay?
And when Zheng Yuxing decided to learn to accept that Ming no longer liked himself, Chen Chen's confession made him feel warm and redeemed.
So at the music festival, Zheng Yuxing took the initiative to kiss her forward, but this kiss also made Xiao Zheng completely understand that he could not like girls.
So he replied gratefully and guiltily: If only I could like you too...
Ha? Turns out you don't like her?
This plot, people look stupid.
The more the little sister who came out of the movie theater thought something was wrong, and when she saw that the director was Chen Zhengdao,
Suddenly, I woke up: it's you again.
When "Midsummer Lightyear" saw that at the end, what should have happened to the two boys happened, and when it came time to confess, one of them said to the other, I have always taken you as my best friend.
Not to mention the recent "Secret Visitor" that people didn't know how to evaluate.
In fact, if you look back carefully, the director really has many obvious hints in the role treatment of Ming, which Zheng Yuxing likes.
For example, the pronouns for the male protagonist's ex-boyfriend on the subtitles are all her, but the English translation is resolute that a personal pronoun is not used, and all are replaced by third-person names;
From the perspective of parents, when facing Chen Chen's parents who are worried about their daughter's safety, Zheng Yuxing's father firmly said that "it will definitely not be good for your daughter", which can also be spied from it.
From the perspective of the interaction between the male and female protagonists, Chen Chen's eyes looking at Zheng Yuxing in the movie are always affectionate.
Zheng Yuxing has no love, and it may have been just a manifestation of different orientations and misplaced intentions.
Of course, whether the male protagonist is Gay or not is a matter of opinion, but how to say it?
If you want to shoot same-sex themes, you can; but the official takes heterosexuality to promote, and engages in the real CP of Wu Lei and Zhang Zifeng, so that the audience who rushes into the theater for the two small actors is embarrassed.
It's no different from cheating on marriage!
I don't know how many people, like Little Sister, have been tricked into paying a share of money to "Lei Feng".
Anyway, according to the degree to which the major rating software has almost fallen, I think everyone has a lot of opinions about the completion of "Midsummer Future".
All the publicity points in the early stage of the film sell fresh youth film male and female protagonists, and after watching the movie, they found that the male protagonist was gay (or bisexual) and could not forget his ex-boyfriend.
The wrong version of the goods is true, and it is also true that director Chen Zhengdao has brought private goods.
In fact, whether from the perspective of actor acting skills or the intention of the topic, although this film is not amazing, it is at least a qualified youth film.
However, the film's deliberately rubbing side-ball style of publicity is really unrecognizable.
In addition, although the theme of love and regret + youth regret has been filmed, there can always be different perspectives and different interpretations for this story to empathize with the audience.
This is also another original intention of the little sister who likes to watch youth films and has expectations for this film.
But unfortunately, in this story, there is no real father, mother, teacher or even teenager or girl in the third year of high school.
So how to perceive youth as the trailer says?