In 2018, Rene Liu's "Later Us" was released in the mainland and eventually earned 1.36 billion yuan at the box office, becoming one of the highest-grossing love films of the year. With rich details and real emotions, the film shows us the misses and regrets in love. Coincidentally, as early as 2007, Galaxy Image had made a film with a similar theme, and today Xiaobian came to talk to you about the movie "Whenever Changes" produced by Du Qifeng, directed by Luo Yongchang, and starring Miriam Yang and Eason Chan.
The story takes place in a wet market called "Rich And Noble Market", where Ah Miao (Played by Miriam Yeung) and Yu Guy (Played by Eason Chan) are a pair of happy enemies in the eyes of everyone, and both of them are busy for their own lives.
Ah Miao has always had a plan, that is, to pay off all the debts owed by her father (Feng Quefan) before the age of 30, and then find a suitable man to marry. To this end, she has kissed several times and met the cake guy (Feng Shaofeng). After that, a lot of things happened to Ah Miao's body, such as the poor business of the "Rich And Noble Market" and the unexpected death of his father, but from beginning to end, the fish guys were with Ah Miao.
On Ah Miao's 30th birthday, the fish guy confessed to her, but Ah Miao rejected him and then disappeared into the fish guy's life. When the two met again many years later, Ah Miao had become a famous makeup artist, and the fish guy became the famous "fish porridge king".
Ah Miao found that he had not been able to put down the fish guy all these years, but unfortunately, the fish guy was married and had a happy family. Although Ah Miao and The Fish Guy are not relatives, they are more like relatives, although the two have not come together, but they have lived their best selves.
The film was released in 2007 and eventually grossed HK$9.02 million in Hong Kong and RMB 2.32 million in mainland China. Although its box office performance is not particularly satisfactory, in the Douban movie, its score is as high as 7.9 points, which is medium to high compared with the same type of film.
The film characterizes the story at the beginning — the word MISS has four meanings: miss, miss, miss, miss, unmarried woman. This also tells the audience that the story of Ah Miao and the Fish Guy that will be told next is not so complete, well, there is indeed a feeling of anti-romance film routine.
Regarding the transformation of the "Rich And Noble Ruins", the film uses three core events to unfold. The first is the opening of a professional supermarket nearby, which has led to the impact on the business of "Rich and Noble Market", so the Fish Guys and a group of people learned the business strategy of the supermarket, but they made a lot of jokes. This tells us that in the face of a crisis, we must grasp our own advantages and not hide our illness and avoid medical treatment.
The second is that after the "Rich and Noble Market" was demolished, the merchants all moved out, and the fish guys were angry but killed the fish inside, and the result was put out, which tells us that we must conform to the development trend of the times.
The third is that the chicken guy and the vegetable woman returned to China and wanted to come to the "Rich and Noble Market" to see, and the fish guy and Ah Miao called the former neighbors over and performed a play, but finally summoned the police. This tells us that success and glory have passed and are for nostalgia.
The changes in the "Rich and Noble Market" market reflect the inevitable end of the traditional industry under the impact of new things. This is also the dilemma faced by the grassroots class of Ah Miao and Fish Guy. In the movie, in order to make money, Ah Miao bought a lot of boxes of millennium insecticides, and also let the neighbors of the vegetable market take shares and become her downline. This kind of plot routine, which is obviously a pyramid scheme, is placed on the group of People of Ah Miao, which makes people feel rich in the sense of age, and at the same time vividly portrays the psychology of the small citizens in the neighborhood.
When watching the movie, the editor has been thinking, why is Ah Miao and the fish guy so in love, but the two are not together? After watching the movie, I got the answer: from Ah Miao's point of view, she has no future with the fish guy. When the fish guy confessed to her, the fish guy and she were busy making a living, and if the two lived together, they would be busy like this for the rest of their lives. Therefore, she will choose to disappear in the life of the fish guy, come to a new field, re-learn a skill, and become a better version of herself.
The supporting cast of this film is quite luxurious, in addition to Feng Quanfan, Lu Haipeng and other galactic image royal supporting roles, there are also three male actors Huang Bo, Feng Shaofeng, and Lin Jiadong. The pork guy played by Huang Bo has a lot of roles in the film, which is also his first appearance in a Hong Kong film, because the characters and stories are quite suitable for the role, so Huang Bo's performance in the film is still quite wonderful, not abrupt. Feng Shaofeng plays the make-up artist played by cake guy and Lin Jiadong, although there are not many scenes, but they also have memory points.
One of the most memorable lines in the movie is "Gucci has never been like Prada", which seems to be saying something else, but it is also about love, whether to be content with the status quo or a new life, which is a multiple choice question. Some people miss it and miss it, and there won't be any more.
Watching this movie today, in addition to lamenting the unfulfilled love and nostalgia for that lost time, we must learn to make choices, so if you were asked to make a 10-year plan, what would you plan? (Zhang Liyuan)