Compared with Xu Zheng, who had hair in "Behind the Scenes Player" last month, Xu Zheng, who still has no hair, feels very kind. In the shanghai screening of "Living Together in Time", the moment when it gets the most laughter is the scene of Xu Zheng's cameo.
In addition to cameos, Xu Zheng also participated in the screenwriting and production of the film. I have to say that the comedic talent is really a god's reward, and Xu Zheng's comedy is a natural sense of rhythm. And the lead actor Lei Jiayin is the same, a look at his big head with shrugged eyebrows, the most ordinary lines, he said it in a tone, you just have to laugh.
The heroine played by Tong Liya is a single woman in her early thirties, she is a little vain, a little domineering, shrewd in appearance, but in fact naïve, straightforward and unpretentious, and can distinguish between right and wrong. Tong Liya does not have the innate sense of comedy that Lei Jiayin has, of course, among the actresses who can play the number one in the film, there are few actresses with a sense of comedy (Ma Li counts as one, Zhou Dongyu counts as one, but Ma Li and Lei Jiayin, Zhou Dongyu and Lei Jiayin... I'm sorry I reject both combinations), after all, good looks usually have nothing to do with comedy. Tong Liya is already a relatively rare actress who has good looks and acting skills at the same time, and can also be open-minded. This allows her to play with Lei Jiayin in rhythm and comedy without dropping the chain, which can be regarded as a good praise in this group of double cross-talk. Compared with making a vase in Chen Sicheng's steel straight male movie, such a romantic comedy gives her more room to play.
The story tells the story of a young man living in 1999 and a young woman living in 2018, who have rented the same old apartment, because time and space are intertwined, and the apartments of life are also intertwined, and they have been forced to live together since then. The vulgar "forced cohabitation" meme, put on this "time and space interlacing" coat, suddenly seems to have some meaning.
In fact, love movies are particularly suitable for integration with fantasy and science fiction elements. Movies such as foreign movies such as "Inner Beauty" and "Man in the Love Book", the setting of fantasy colors are the core of the story, and also inject fresh possibilities into the love story. The unusual time and space setting is the first choice for many love movies, such as "Time and Space Lover", "Falling in Love with Jun a Hundred Times", "Tomorrow's Me and Yesterday's You" are all examples of this. However, in China, science fiction and fantasy elements are still rarely used in love movies, and there are few successful examples. "Living Together in Time" is also an expansion of the possibility of domestic romantic comedies, and at the beginning of the movie, the setting of time and space is more meticulous, at first glance it sounds like there is no hard injury, and it also explains many loopholes that are easy to appear in the setting through time and space, and also evolves into a bridge section to promote the plot and a natural comedy paragraph. Of course, these settings still don't stand up to scrutiny, but this is a romantic comedy, almost OK.
After all, the romantic comedy still depends on whether the emotional line of the two people is touching people, and the loser image of the male protagonist in the film, who to play, can make Tong Liya fall in love with this level of beauty, which is unconvincing. But when Lei Jiayin came to play a big head loser, it was convincing: mournful and cute, still funny, Lei Jiayin is simply the most similar actor in China at present, who can not be patriotic?
In the domestic romantic comedy, the way the feelings of the hero and heroine are sublimated is nothing more than two, either the obsessive and domineering president spoils me to heaven, or the poor and lowly two mouths live an ordinary life. This pair is clearly the latter. Two losers from being forced to live together, to each other to warm up, take care of each other, the previous "21 Carat" is also this routine, but "21 Carat" is not good enough, the two people's feelings heat up lack of process, MV-style display will pass this important process. "Living Together in Time" sublimates the embarrassing details of the two people's daily life into a small romance, and also depicts the difference in concept and cognition caused by the difference in time and space, which blends the comedic effect and the development of the love line well. The best treatment is in the love line, the two did not say a love confession similar to "I love you" from beginning to end, and the only paragraph close to the confession was still said by "others" when the hero was splitting in disguise.
Here's another playful setting in the movie: my love enemy is myself, how a blackened self after 19 years destroys his love. "I saw me driving a luxury car to get you back." This strange-looking sentence not only makes the paragraph comedic, but also carries a little practical significance. It is said that poor and lowly couples mourn, but in reality, how many couples who have gone from poor to rich cannot be rich and noble? In the movie, the male protagonist 19 years ago supported the female protagonist and his own 19 years later, and not without bitter persuasion: "You can grow up without accompanying him, there will be gains." "If you were given a choice, would you rather choose to work hard with your lover who has nothing, or enjoy the material life brought to you by a lover who has everything?"
Under the strong setting of time and space interlacing and "love enemy is myself", the emotional line between the two can be regarded as laughter and tears, and passed. At the end, the life experience of the hero and heroine has formed a closed loop, proving that all choices are between one thought, but what changes is the trajectory of two people's lives. However, there are more obvious logical loopholes in the story here, but in general, the story is worth watching, the comedy effect is full of points, as long as you are not too strict logic control, then even if you are not a fan of Lei Jiayin, watching this movie can also get a kind of relaxation and pleasure after overtime listening to Guo Degang's cross-talk.