Occasionally jumping into the theater between Olympic games, I took my sister to see a movie of the same age, "Summer Future".
Originally did not have much expectation for the domestic youth film of the routine, did not expect to like it, the momentum is quite strong, Douban 60,000 people scored, 7.5 points, this score no matter which year, it can be regarded as ▼▼▼
These days have seen a lot of numbers are written, originally nothing, until an old friend, college teacher # has a summer vacation is good Oh #, 3 days to turn 3 different angles of the text, but also rare excitement in the circle of friends and people line, I found that the original movie can actually cause a debate.
In a simple summary, the voice of doubt and dissatisfaction are basically concentrated on "cp is not sweet" and "propaganda fraud"
To be honest, when I watched the movie, I thought it was special, and there was a reason that it reflected the complexity of human emotions, which had nothing to do with age and experience - two people became friends in high times, and used their own stories to slowly understand the confusion and growth in youth.
I went back to brush the trailer, and it was quite clear inside, wasn't the cooperation between the two people because of "to anger the parents, to vent the dissatisfaction of being deceived by adults"?
Chen Chen, played by Zhang Zifeng, originally had full confidence in being admitted to a book, but because she learned that her parents were secretly divorced from her, she had a grudge and took "abandoning the exam" as the price of making her family feel cold. I didn't get into college, but my family's persecution always had to be faced. So, she made up a reason: lost love.
The object is Zheng Yuxing, a Douyin internet celebrity of the same school
Zheng Yuxing, played by Wu Lei, has been addicted to electronic music, and gave up the college entrance examination for the DJ MING, who was much older than him, to find this lover he thought "still loves him"
The two people who re-read the school happened to be in the same class, so they twisted and began to pretend to be lovers, and developed a short and warm relationship.
The point of anger of the old friend is that the person who bought the ticket can have his own preferences, but it is too naïve to get rid of the quality of the movie body, just because the CP love he wants to snort is not tasted, he turns around and steps back, giving the movie a low score.
#啊打完这段, and suddenly thought of the other two. This also shouts fraud that also shouts fraud, are you living a smooth life just to save up and be scammed when you are chasing dramas and watching movies? #
What is the reason we are happy when we look at a work?
Because the sun hits the face, the tacit understanding flows between the hands and feet.
During the exercise, Zheng Yuxing deliberately teased Chen Chen's bad smile, and his classmates coaxed them to run together
Secretly listen to songs during class, one airpod per person▼ ▼▼
The interaction between the two is not clear, and the pink bubbles overflow ▼▼▼
Those eyes that follow the coaxing and eating melon at any time are also a true portrayal of campus life
It's been so long that a youth movie has been able to make people so substituted.
My sister's high school was notoriously harsh in our city, but she said that three years of high school were very happy— because of her best friends, seven or eight men and women, and more than one lover.
This summer, they can't move to get together, talk about the topic of flipping back and forth, a certain ambiguous feeling, a ball game between classes, difficult parents at home, unable to go out to study abroad...
This is youth, and it is the most important thing to like yourself.
Those growths, wanderings and longings, we also experienced a few years ago. But in the Z era, the different ways of expression of the carrier are also different, and the details in "Midsummer Future" bite the current young people
No one is more suitable than Zhang Zifeng.
She is too much of a big screen close-up, naturally delicate and moving, with her eyes telling the unspeakable thoughts of adolescence.
When she found that her parents had already secretly signed the divorce agreement and hid it from her, the shock was mixed with sadness and a little anger
For those who like it, it is careful to probe and approach ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼
Those unbearable smiles made people feel her inner fawn bumping
For Wu Lei, what is even more rare is that he finally received a suitable role, the most dazzling teenager in the crowd, sunshine, silly hat and childish also just happened to be ▼▼▼
But he also had moments of extreme heartbreak.
I thought about it, I was worried about it, but when I looked back at it at this moment, I was able to be so calm, look at the attachment I had once had, and sigh slightly.
Zhang Zifeng has exploded in the past two years and played many "sisters". In fact, looking back at the youth films she played, from the teenager Zhou Xiaoyan of "You at the Same Table" in 2014
By 2017, "Li Lei and Han Meimei" was filmed under the English textbook classic CP as IP
Then to the cute brother and sister film "Take My Brother Away" in 2018
She has gradually become an excellent new generation of actors, and has also witnessed the evolutionary history of domestic youth films.
Since 2013, "To Youth", internal entertainment filmmakers have become keen to adapt popular novels such as "Hurry That Year", "Left Ear", "Why Sheng ZhenMo", "A Slight Smile is Very Charming", etc. After the change cannot be changed, they extend their claws to the campus songs sung by middle-aged people when they were young, expand it, pull a few emotional lines, and make a movie on the screen.
Mainland youth films adapted from big IP can be said to be very stereotypical, almost all of which are the perspective of memory beautification, and then insert various key elements of the year, and use tape recorders, CDs, roller skating and other items full of age to set off the atmosphere
At one time, it was also tied to the blood of dogs such as "leg splitting, car accident, abortion, and cancer"
Pictured from @Daily Economic News
As the audience became more and more reluctant to eat this set, it began to gradually get rid of the suspended youth pain literature, and there was a variety of exploration and expression.
"Take My Brother Away" jumps out of the category of love and first love, and talks about brothers and sisters and family affection.
"Over Spring" focuses on cross-border schoolchildren from single-parent families whose families are in Shenzhen and go to Hong Kong every day to study
"Flash Girl" involves a two-dimensional culture, using youth to show the traditional folk music culture.▼▼▼
The details of school bullying discussed in "Young You" have made "youth pain" more layered social expression.▼▼▼▼
But it wasn't until "Midsummer Future" that it was really a youth film with the same frequency of Generation Z.
It not only observes the general growth experience of Chinese-style teenagers, but also cares about the personality of people who grew up in the era of online new media.
Outside, Zheng Yuxing relies on douyin live broadcast to attract attention▼▼▼
At home, I can only talk to SIRI alone with the bull's head and the horse's mouth, and turn the music to the maximum
In the club, rely on the rhythm of electronic music to forget the troubles
For Chen Chen, the family is more important than the college entrance examination, and he would rather erase the answer of half a roll, and also want to fight for his parents to spend a year that may be compounded
Character who would rather drop out of school than lie
This generation of young people is really different.
They have multiple values and have a lot of channels to show themselves. Of course, there are also their own lonely and peculiar ways of solving.
Director Chen Zhengdao last shot a youth film in 2006, and the reason why he touched the theme of youth again was because of his curiosity about the post-00s who grew up in the new media era:
"The post-00s are brand new, they are very different from us. As soon as they were born, they lived in the world of new media and mobile phone networks, and seemed to have seen the world and seen the world, which made me have the impulse to make a movie for young people for the second time and tell the story of this century. ”
Not only are the male and female protagonists brand new, but their parents are also a rare type in youth films.
Chen Chen's mother played games and mahjong on her mobile phone and met the "Hainan Fruit King"
#很想问: How is the Hainan Fruit King not from the northeast? #
When talking about love, it is also a young girl, and Hao Lei plays it vividly
All good youth films must have both attention to individual growth, the true portrayal of family relations, and the observation and thinking of history and society.
"Sunny Days" has a strong sense of heroism and idealism, and the rebellious students of "Thirteen Paulownia Trees" are reckless and aware of the lag of the problem, all reflect the color of the times
"Midsummer Future" belongs to the present.
Of course, many youth films can't avoid the "old terrier", and there are still "Midsummer Future".
For example, there must be a classic song.
Li Keqin's "Red Sun" became popular because of "To Youth", and now every time I hear it, I will think of the scene where Zheng Wei sang and danced on the stage
"Once is good" that appeared at the important moment of "Charlotte Troubles", people cried a lot
Learn to be a bully with scum.
Lin Zhenxin and Xu Taiyu▼▼▼▼
And
"Love" must be discovered by the teacher
There is always a problem with the original family of the male and female protagonists.
In "Young You", you can see how much Xiao bei, who has no family warmth, has been affected physically and mentally!
Chen Xiaozheng of "To Youth" has become lonely and arrogant because of the incompleteness of his original family, resulting in inferiority in his bones
"Dog Thirteen" Twelve-year-old Li play, his mother leaves, his father remarries, and lives with his grandparents, and no one can talk about his heart
Every movie always has a classic line or two.
Summer Future brings together all of these elements.
In Mayday's "Embrace", Chen Chen sang "Take off the mask of the long day", and Zheng Yuxing played the guitar next to him # I was immersed in that moment, a paragraph I liked super much
They are also a combination of bullies + scum: one is second in the class, and the other is first from the bottom.
The teacher thought that the two of them were in love, and they were anxious to learn, and they were bitterly divided.
There are problems with the original families of both sides, Chen Chen has been avoiding the fact that his parents' marriage broke down; Zheng Yuxing has no maternal love, and his father is cold, with an unapproachable majesty
A lonely broken, a desire for family fulfillment, two bitter unrequited love, because the lies are intertwined, their encounter, is to heal each other's wounds, to heal each other.
"Accept that people you like don't like yourself."
"Hopefully we can be more honest with ourselves, hopefully we can be braver."
"If at this moment, the person you like also happens to like you, then now is the future." 」
These few lines have also become the most memorable for many people after watching the movie
But what is different is that "Midsummer Future" is still anti-routine in the routine.
Thinking that her daughter was "in love", her mother did not object, but encouraged her not to break up before the college entrance examination, because she knew that breaking up would affect her emotions
This sentence, "You fell in love with you early, you are sneaky, what do you mean by being so high-profile", laugh me to death
When changing seats, the teacher let them fix them in the original seat, and as a result, Zheng Yuxing convinced the teacher to let them sit at the same table with his own stable grades (in the first to last), Chen Chen's grades did not collapse (or the second place), and the reason that love would not affect learning convinced the teacher to let them sit at the same table.
And Chen Chen did not refuse, and bravely sat down next to Zheng Yuxing.
In fact, it is a new way for two children to motivate each other, and "Summer Future" provides a new idea for education
Counting these 20 years, when it comes to youth films, "Blue Gate" is one of the most mentioned films, and will be re-released in South Korea in August
We were touched by the story of Monk and Zhang Shihao, and this line accurately describes the feeling of youth and growth
Zhang Shihao: Oh, the whole summer is almost over, as if nothing has been done.
Meng Kerou: Yeah, it seems like just running around and doing nothing.
Zhang Shihao: But there will always be something left behind, and what we leave behind, we will become what kind of adults.
We spend ten or twenty years looking for the blue door of our hearts. Looking back, I found that it was actually only opened in the beginning of ignorance, turning left was quicksand, turning right was Shura Field, retreating into the cinema, which was the only place that could mourn it for an hour and a half.
In 2021, "Summer Future" may be about to redefine youth, making our Generation Z smile and face the adult world.
#陈正道还自己吐槽了一把: I hate youth movies the most #
It is those moments of surprise, impulse, emotion, regret that weave our youth.
Chen Zhengdao said that the phrase "love or no love, the future will come" on the poster is the real core of the movie -
"What the movie wants to express is that you can decide how you want to live your 18, 28, 38, 48 years old, no matter what age you can continue to bravely pursue what you want." Puberty is truly over when you can recognize the life you want and the person you love, or if you are lucky enough to find someone who loves you. ”
Many people are asking what youth looks like, and the answer given by "Midsummer Future" is - throbbing, regret, loneliness, growth, is to condense a slight pain and sorrow into a reconciliation and acceptance of yourself.
Many people are looking for the meaning of youth, and "Midsummer Future" gives the answer - youth is to find the meaning of life, and this answer is also what all life has to pursue. Where we came from, what shaped us, where we will go, and who we become.
The two protagonists of "Summer Future" let you let go of those regrets in your youth, learn to accept that people you like don't like yourself, accept loss and regret, and then grow.
The theme of youth is never just love, it has always begun from fading youth, learning how to get along with loneliness, how to get along with others, how to get along with yourself, and find your own courage in it.
And the future is just beginning.