"50 First Loves" is a 2004 romantic comedy about Henry (Adam Sandler), a veterinarian in hawaii's aquarium, who sleeps with all kinds of tourists who come to Hawaii and then breaks up with them for a variety of reasons, leaving them with perfect memories.
Henry stumbles upon Lucy (Drew Barrymore), who is building a house with muffins at the restaurant, and the two have a good conversation and make an appointment to see each other the next day. But when he spoke to Lucy the next day, she had no idea who Henry was.
The lady who runs the snack bar says that Lucy injured her head in a car accident a year ago and part of her short-term memory was damaged, so her life will always stay on the day of the car accident. Henry talks to Lucy in various ways and meets her father and brother, but Lucy's father disapproves of the two.
On this day Lucy came to the restaurant like a woman, and Henry talked as usual. A police officer suddenly appears to give Lucy a ticket to her car because the license plate has been expired for a long time. Lucy hurriedly picked up the newspaper in the hands of the person next to her, and finally realized that the time she was in was completely inconsistent with her cognition, and her past year was completely blank.
When she returned home, her father confessed that he had let her live the same life for the past year, just so as not to cause her chaos. She asked to see the doctor, and Henry followed. He knew her illness was only going to get worse, not better, but it fueled his determination to help Lucy.
He brings lilies and videos to Lucy's house, and he shows her what his friends say and what happens between him and her. From that day on, the first thing Lucy did every day when she got up was to watch the tape, and then she would go on a date with Henry.
Henry slept with Lucy that day, but the next morning Lucy screamed because of the strange man sleeping next to him. Henry goes downstairs to rest after being hit in the head by Lucy, Lucy's father mentions when Henry is going to observe the ecology of the walrus (expected for a year), Henry says he can't leave, and Lucy needs her help.
Lucy heard everything upstairs. She came to Henry with her diary, which she had written every day since she had seen the video henry had given her, and she wanted to break up with Henry because she felt she had delayed him. Henry reluctantly agreed to her, and together they burned all the records about Henry in her garage. As she parted, Lucy asked Henry to give her one last first kiss.
On the day of Henry's voyage, relatives and friends came to see him off, and Lucy's father also gave him gifts. He opened his presents after going to sea, which contained the Beach Boys album, Lucy's parents' favorite song.
The melody reminded him of Lucy, and of Lucy's father's mention of Lucy humming the Beach Boys song that day whenever she had seen Henry. Sensing that Lucy remembered her, he sailed the boat back to shore and rushed to the sanatorium where Lucy was now teaching to draw.
He saw Lucy and asked her if she knew who she was. Lucy didn't remember him, but she led Henry to her studio: the whole room was a portrait of Henry. Lucy asks Henry to tell her everything, and after listening, the two kiss.
Lucy woke up in bed and looked suspiciously at her unfamiliar environment. She picked up the tape that read "Good Morning Lucy" and put it on the player, which gave a brief description of what had happened to her and filmed Lucy and Henry's wedding ceremony.
After watching the videotape, she looked out the window and there was a vast ocean. She came out of the bedroom, Henry was talking to their daughters, and her father was fishing. All this is so new to her, but it is also relatively beautiful.
I think "50 First Loves" is a very interesting romantic comedy. Now Hollywood comedy movies seem to be difficult for screenwriters to break through, so that the audience can easily feel happy from the heart during the viewing process, either exaggerated stupid YA movies, or laughs only the director and screenwriter themselves find funny.
Adam Sandler, who also came from a comedy factory, made works in the late 1990s such as "Golf Is Crazy" and "Wedding Singer" that made the audience laugh, but the subsequent performances deteriorated, and it became more and more difficult for the audience to feel joy from his performances.
This time with Drew Barrymore again, with the support of a good romantic love script structure, "First Love 50 Times" allows audiences who like Adam Sandler to once again be able to relive the happy hours from his films.
The director and screenwriter of this "First Love 50 Times" have built many laughs on a smooth plot, and the general comedy film only pays attention to funny and ignores the script, and the shortcomings that are criticized for being funny and funny have been quite well balanced in this work, so that the audience in the process of watching the movie is mainly to enjoy the romantic love story in the play.
Let Adam Sandler and his contemporaries in "Weekend Night Live" be funny, let the comedic effect become the decorative packaging of the plot, and the joy points brought out of the plot are naturally not deliberate, so they will not make the audience laugh very reluctantly.
The heroine of this film, Drew Barrymore, has the amnesia problem of "Memory Fragments", and the plot is beautifully arranged to be a bridge between laughter and humor, and does not make a big fuss about her amnesia.
Amnesia is handled in terms of affection and love, and the jokes are given to the supporting characters around the male protagonist, especially Adam Sandler's friend Rob Schneider, who often makes cameos in each other's movies.
Because Adam Sandler wanted to work with his friends in the beautiful Hawaii, Rob Schneider's role was very important in this film, and his funny skills were not inferior to the movies he starred in.
And Adam Sandler, as in the past, added a nostalgic song soundtrack from the 80s to the movie, with the film stage background presented in a reggae style, the film's multi-layered collocation, so that the audience who like this movie is more extensive.
Of course, this "50 First Loves" may not be a masterpiece classic film work, but it is indeed an excellent and successful romantic comedy film among a bunch of disappointing comedies at that time.