Stills from "Sweet and Sour Love You" (courtesy of Chu Doraemi Entertainment)
【Text/Sparrow】The story text comes from the Japanese writer's dry walnut novel "Love Adult Style", the Korean movie "Sweet and Sour Love You" is led by the current Korean drama male protagonist "Nine-tailed Fox" Zhang Jilong, this casting strategy is the same as the Japanese version of the movie "Love Adult Style" starring Tian Dunzi's partner Shota Matsuda in 2015, "star actor" not only shoulders the heavy responsibility of attracting the audience's desire to appreciate the film, and the actor also does not bear his own responsibility, and pays a bright performance report card, which is a win-win situation. However, after six years, in the case of "Adult Love" in front of the pearl jade, is there really a need to shoot or watch "Sweet and Sour Love you"?
The answer is yes. Although there is harm in comparison, green vegetables and turnips are good, and it is necessary to have multiple selectivity. And contemporary audiences have different tastes, even the Taiwanese movies "A Story More Sad Than Sad" and "When a Man Is in Love" are remade from the Korean movie of the same name, but the scores of the two films on imdb are one lower and one higher than the original, who can say accurately and decide? The audience may wish to personally go to the film to verify, feel the sense of solidity that speculation and choice are in their hands.
"The Adult Style of Love"
The Korean version is popular Japanese complex
Although the Remake and Elements of the Korean version of "Sweet and Sour Love You" in all aspects are "direct copies" of "The Adult Style of Love" (the important "sneakers" and "collision" arrangements in the two films are not from the original novel), it is not a secret that the popular drama tension expression part of Korean movies is indeed slightly better, and the beauty and beast that love movies should have, get along for a long time, the helplessness of long distance and work, the strong threat of Xiaosan's intervention and other details and comedy formulas (even cool to see Zhang Jilong's love scene), The changed theatrical elements are also all there.
Under the premise of looking good and easy to understand, most viewers may not even feel the brainburn after watching "Sweet and Sour Love You", nor will they want to explore the woman's timeline, because the Korean version of "flipping" is so absolute and violent, popular and simple.
Zhang Jilong starred in "My Roommate is a Nine-Tailed Fox" (Photo/Courtesy of Chu Domi Entertainment)
The risk of weakening narrative ruse is borne by Zhang Jilong
After watching the Japanese version of "The Adult Style of Love", the "Wait a minute, when did this pair of lovers start to sleep in the same bed?" Suspense is curious, in the Korean version may only be left with "wtf why let me see such a scummy side of Zhang Jilong?" You have to go to the next shed "My roommate is a nine-tailed fox" to purify the mood of love" and so on.
Zhang Jilong starred in "My Roommate is a Nine-Tailed Fox"
The wonderful thing that completely simplifies the Perfect Interpretation of the "Narrative Trick" in the Japanese version will be that "Sweet and Sour Love You" cannot surpass the main reason for the dramatic achievement of "Love adult style" after all, but it is also the place where "Sweet and Sour Love You" wins "Love Adult Style" in popular sense. It is a pity that the Korean version gave up the complexity of the heroine's personality, which should have been a good scene where the audience could watch the scum male and female fight on the wall, and became a movie that simply watched Zhang Jilong play handsome and sell scum, and simply punctured the illusion of the love movie and left the literal meaning of "love adult style", which made people watch a little helpless.
Although Zhang Jilong is handsome enough to make people a little angry (stills of "Sweet and Sour Love You", provided by Chu Domi Entertainment)
Gender relations between Japan and South Korea and the aftermath of patriarchal culture
"The Adult Style of Love" is still a masterpiece of Maeda Atsuko's film, because the dark side of the character is completely absent from the performance - and this is simply too much in line with the gentle and sweet appearance of Japanese women in the marriage and living market who pose as "men's dream ideal women", but in the mainland, they are hunting many male objects suitable for marriage, and their various possibilities, even if they step on two boats, they will not hesitate to save half of their youth because of this. After all, women are young and precious, and the older they are, the more unfavorable the cognition of marriage is well known, and in the end, it is also forced by the patriarchal society.
"Adult Style of Love" is provided by Doraemi Entertainment
"Sweet and Sour Love You" thus also shows the cultural differences between Japan and South Korea. Compared with Atsuko Maeda's "attack" and evil femininity, the heroine Cai Xiubin's "acceptance" and social animal sense make it possible for the audience to sympathize with her until the last minute. Even after seeing the two boyfriends collide in the ending, you can see from her retaliatory indifference to the negative man, "You have not failed me, I will not bear you" attitude.
Even if the woman's emotional relationship overlaps in the middle of the whole movie, the narrative is still on the side of the woman's reasonableness. This deliberate reversal of the original and even the Japanese version of "the real master is the heroine", so that Cai Xiubin's belly blackness is less than the success of Maeda Atsuko, is it because the home of "Sweet and Sour Love You" is Zhang Jilong? Or is it that Korean society generally cannot accept such a "heroine design"? If it is the latter, I am afraid that the sequelae of Korean patriarchal culture are really invincible in the world.
When the Scumbag Scumbag Club was transformed and simplified
South Korea is a contemporary film and television power. The first half of "Sweet and Sour Love You" is really beautiful. In the process of forgetting the existence of "Adult Style of Love" and purely appreciating "Sweet and Sour Love You", there is still the delicacy and satisfaction that love movies can bring, and even Zheng Xiujing's ambiguous bridge section with the male protagonist as a female clown is also good.0
But if you have already seen "The Adult Style of Love" and witnessed the "gender relationship is deeper than whose city government" revealed by the Scumbag scumbag Club, I am afraid that the story of "pure love male becoming scumbag" such as "Sweet and Sour Love you" is really relatively pediatric.