When thinking of American youth campus dramas, many people think of the once very popular "song and dance youth", handsome men and beautiful women in the youth-filled campus to start a romantic love.
And this school drama has also hit the hearts of countless young girls.
The film's protagonist, Lala Jane, is a high school student about to enter her sophomore year of high school (11th grade in the United States). She has the characteristics that most adolescent girls have: ordinary, like to read romance novels, and have a crush.
On the left is Lala Jane and on the right is the sister
Neighbor Josh is a friend who talks about everything and is also the boyfriend of Lara Jane's sister Margot. Her sister Margot is about to go to university in England, so she breaks up with Josh.
Lara Jane and Josh
While her sister and Josh are in love, LalaJan realizes that she also has feelings for Josh that surpasses her friends. But she won't take the initiative to confess her feelings, not only because Josh is her sister's boyfriend, but also because her own solution to meeting a boy with feelings is: write him a love letter, but the letter will never be sent, just to help her understand her feelings better.
Lala Jane wrote to Josh
This is the most important plot highlight in the film, and she wrote a total of 5 love letters. It's her own way of solving the problem of adolescent emotions.
5 people who write love letters
But one day Lalajan's sister sent them all out. All five boys received love letters from Lara Jane. Josh also receives love letters, and Lala Jane, in order to avoid facing Josh, pretends to be in love with another boy who receives her love letters, Peter. Peter is a boy he has a crush on because he met in seventh grade playing games.
The reason why Peter wants to pretend to be in love with Lalajan is to make his ex-girlfriend jealous.
Peter proposes to pretend to be in love in the hope that his ex-girlfriend will be jealous
As a result, they begin to become "lovers", Lara Jane uses Peter as a shield to escape Josh's questioning, and Peter also makes his girlfriend jealous. They watched meals together, studied together, and partyed together. But the next development you may be able to guess, fake love becomes real love (I have to say, this is a very old-fashioned routine).
The largest part of the film is when Peter and Lala Jane discover their true feelings in a hypothetical relationship. Lala Jane was afraid to let others into her heart because of her mother's departure, because she was afraid that these people she loved would leave him. But Peter's appearance made her brave for herself once.
Lala Jane was relieved when she finally talked to Josh, and did not avoid Josh, who said, "You have to tell others what you really think, you can't just sit on the table in the room and write a love letter that won't go out, then you won't meet Peter." And Lala Jane also confessed to Josh that her feelings for him were not love, until she met Peter, he did not understand his feelings, did not understand what love is like. Those love letters were her own fantasies.
What Josh said to Lala Jane
I think Lala Jane is a realistic picture of a lot of girls' adolescence, we used to have fantasies about love, but we didn't understand what it was. So you will put your emotions on something to balance your heart. In adolescence, we rebel and ignorant, always bumping into each other, and doing many stupid things before we grow up.