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Directed by Chen Zhengdao and starring Zhang Zifeng, Wu Lei, Hao Lei and Zu Feng, "Midsummer Future" was released. This movie tells the story of Chen Chen, a sunshine girl with the same frequency of spiritual radio waves, and Zheng Yuxing, a dream-chasing teenager, who joined hands with youth to break through the barrier and bravely rushed to the future.
The theme of the film is youth love, focusing on the emotions and life conditions of ordinary high school students, which naturally leads to the issue of intergenerational communication, "Chenxing" is the epitome of youth group portraits, and the film has both a realistic observation perspective and humanistic temperature. Let the emotional explosiveness in the plot be cleverly hidden under the shell called "youthfulness". Peers burn the vitality of youth, collide with the conflict and reconciliation with their parents, and burst out the emotional power that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Compared with previous summer slots, the early performance of this year's summer slots is somewhat unsatisfactory. Not only did there not appear dark horses and phenomenon-level blockbusters, the rest of the movies also performed mediocrely, the overall box office declined in July, and the gap in the market was larger, which was not enough to see compared with the box office in the same period of 2019 and 2018. The promotion of the youth movie "Midsummer Future" has made the end of July more interesting.
In the video of "In order to know your secrets, I am willing to exchange my secrets" on the Douyin platform, one takes the initiative, one is arrogant and avoidant, full of hormones. Not only is the number of likes super high, but there are also many Amway heads.
Before the screening, the "want to see" of the ticket purchase platform was as high as 93w+, which can be described as a pre-screening fire. Coupled with the donation of the film crew to the Henan disaster, netizens have said that the summer vacation and youth films match and are willing to see it.
Wu Lei and Zhang Zifeng have cooperated earlier in the movie "Pampered", this time the second ride, can be regarded as the expectation of the public, just to the name of the official CP, it attracted a lot of netizens, Wu Lei and Zhang Zifeng also lived up to expectations, the movie is full of youthful atmosphere, creating a youth story that belongs to the midsummer, the general sense of match presented is simply not too good, let people kowtow.
The high degree of "juvenile feeling" between the actors and the roles not only makes the film plot more real and moving, but also makes the emotional atmosphere full of immersion, the teenager is fearless in the face of growth, the brave attitude of moving forward is convincing, plus some memories of killing, many netizens sighed: This is the real youth should look like.
In recent years, youth films have begun to develop towards painful youth, such as "Young You" and "Sorrow Against the River", which are based on "pain" as the main line. However, this "Midsummer Future" has returned to the beauty of the original youth. But there are naturally praises and declines, and the current controversy of the movie is mainly the following two points.
1. Open-ended ending
The open-ended ending gives people unlimited imagination, but it is inevitable that it is difficult to be at ease. Some netizens think that leaving a lot of imagination space can make up for the ending in his own brain and be more happy with himself.
Some people also think that the pre-film publicity revolves around the emotional line, and renders more "sweet love" and "Zi Feng's sister's screen first love". However, the actual finished product is far from the same, high up and gently put down, there is a suspicion of deliberate marketing, so that many viewers feel uncomfortable.
2. Play bl wipe the side ball
Director Chen Zhengdao has directed the film "Return to 20 Years Old", "Memory Master", "Hypnosis Master" and other well-known masterpieces, and "Midsummer Future" is his second shooting of youth themes after fifteen years. However, after the release of the movie, many netizens said that this movie is actually a gay film, and began to complain that the film is in the name of youth theme, in fact, it is playing the edge ball, and the Internet is surging.
Although the director finally stood up and explained, the official also debunked the rumors, and things turned over, but the film's reputation and box office were more or less affected.
On the eve of the premiere, the box office forecast based on the number of people who want to see it is about 592 million yuan, second only to the main film "Chinese Doctor" in July, and higher than "White Snake 2: Green Snake Robbery". Making such a fuss has also increased the pressure of its breakthrough box office, and whether it can eventually drive the summer file to heat up and become a "leader", there are also many people waiting to see.