Note: This article contains spoilers

The movie "Want to See You" that suddenly airborne on Christmas Eve made people feel a little dazed at this stall. The year 2020, when the drama version is amazing and popular, is the beginning of the new crown epidemic. People all over the country are isolated at home, a Taiwanese drama that is eye-catching, passionate and brain-burning is especially suitable for enjoying yourself. Almost three years later, the movie version will be released, and the development of the epidemic will enter a different situation. If it is a kind of "head-to-tail echo", it would be a good sign.

Movie "Want to See You" Poster

One day before the movie "Want to See You" was released, the screening and pre-sale box office has exceeded 30 million. The joy of drama fans, coupled with the rigid demand for love types at Christmas, should allow the film to perform well in this schedule.

In the discussion area of the movie Douban entry, there is a topic called, "Can I watch the movie if I haven't seen the show?" You have to yell at me" and so on.

Indeed, to a large extent, the movie version of "Want to See You" is a big easter egg for drama fans. The relationship between it and the drama is a bit like a sequel, but it is not completely consistent. It is said to be a parallel universe, and it is somewhat related to the previous story. It can be regarded as a side story between the sequel and the parallel line. The character setting and emotional logic completely follow the previous work, the plot is constantly flipped, and the intricate travel of the characters continues the way of the series, which will make fans of the series feel very friendly. But if you go directly to the movie theater without watching the show, you may really be a little bit behind, and you won’t be able to catch it.

Stills of "Want to See You"

Almost three years have passed since the series, and my impressions of the people in the series are somewhat blurred. But how popular this show is is confirmed when Wu Bai's "Last Dance" sounded again on the cinema screen-when the phrase "so temporarily close your eyes" sounded, the little girl sitting next to the author My brother even sang along. Then, a magical chemical reaction happened—another male voice next door, and a female voice not far from diagonally behind also joined in, and a strange and harmonious chorus sounded in the auditorium!

The acting skills of the actors are still online. Even if you don't rely on the shape, you can distinguish the characters almost by gestures and subtle expressions. For example, when Huang Yuxuan travels back for the first time, facing her uneasy self three years ago, it is almost foreseeable that the soul in that body may have been replaced by Chen Yunru. It is a pity that Xu Guanghan's charming youthfulness is not shown much in the movie, and the image of middle-aged Li Ziwei's affectionate and warm man still seems a lot dull compared with the drama version.

Ke Jiayan as Huang Yuxuan

The TV series talks about persistence, because they want to see the people they love and care about. The people in the play travel back to the past again and again, wanting to change the tragedy that happened, and finally they will never forget it, and there must be echoes. This core line of action has not changed in the movie, and it develops into a more direct two-way love story in more than a hundred minutes of concentration.

Because they couldn't bear to live in the world where they lost each other, they kept wanting to go back to the past to save each other, which became the internal motivation of Li Ziwei and Huang Yuxuan, but after repeated reincarnations, they finally verified that the one who died in each other's world would never be themselves, no matter what Going back to the past can't change the future. Then, the movie talks about letting go, the redemption and regret that could not be made up in the end, you need to accept the loss to obtain another kind of fulfillment.

Xu Guanghan as Li Ziwei

Drama fans should be able to get a lot of satisfaction from watching movies. The first part of the film is almost to make up for the pure "sugar" part of the series. Li Ziwei, who is in his thirties, finally talks about love with Huang Yuxuan, who is in his twenties. From meeting to staying together like a fairy tale pink The bubbles lasted for over thirty minutes. Handsome men and beautiful women show their affection in a fancy way, and it's over after chatting.

In 2017, Huang Yuxuan looked through the chat records on her mobile phone and revealed the fact that Li Ziwei had died three years ago, and everything entered the brain-burning mode of the drama. The moles on Ke Jiayan's face, the cracks on the tape cassette, and the time points constantly reminded in the subtitles all became the evidence and clues for the audience to sort out the development and transformation of the plot under different time and space.

In a short period of time, waves of reversals bring out the fate of four characters intertwined in time and space. The plot can be regarded as "high energy". When people are entangled in the same frame, the tension and brain burning value are full.

However, it is a little regrettable that the limitation of the length of the film causes the suspense and logic of each time and space to unfold quickly, and it is quickly self-defeating in the straightforward "explanation". The fast-paced and continuous problem-solving moves to the next link, allowing the audience to follow the director's route all the way, without the fun of unraveling that this genre should have. But also in the rapid advancement of being dragged away, some bugs in the plot that can't help but be studied carefully, just go along with the flow and ignore it. However, the core suspense such as why she went to the building and what Huang Yuxuan lost her memory was not clearly explained, which still seemed a bit irresponsible.

Stills of "Want to See You"

If purely based on the requirements of the movie narrative, the story told in the movie version of "Want to See You" will appear too shallow and cryptic, and even forcefully justify itself in the end. After all, the director himself admits that the initial cut version is 180 minutes long, and the In the end, in order to adapt to the length of the theater, there is a lot of information to be discarded in the 107 minutes of the release.

The clues of Chen Yunru, Mo Junjie and Wang Chuansheng are all mentioned in one stroke. Although they are all mentioned in writing, each has its own scribbles. The distressing and deeper part of self-identity surrounding these three characters in the drama version has been weakened. Of course, the length is limited, and the choice of a more concentrated plot narrative seems understandable.

Shi Baiyu as Mo Junjie

As the "center of the storm", Chen Yunru's obsession with "erasing" herself is far-fetched if she does not substitute into the strengthened character set in the play. The relationship with the newly joined Yang Hao (played by Jin Shijia) is somewhat bloody "tool As an important figure in the drama version, Mo Junjie’s presence in the movie is almost equivalent to an easter egg, which must make some fans feel uncomfortable; in contrast, Wang Chuansheng’s appearances are not many, However, it retains the expression space of more dimensional emotions of the characters to the greatest extent, and traces back to the origin of the tape, which is the more surprising part of the easter egg.

Jin Shijia as Yang Hao

The final ending has a hint of chicken soup. The tragedy of the Mobius ring has established a model, but without more rounds of verification, it simply and rudely tells the audience the conclusion-no matter how many times you travel, you will be in the opponent's world. Everyone will die, but in the face of loss and living up to the encounter, only the future can continue.

So Wu Bai continued to sing brainwashing songs, the living people burned the tapes, the people in the existing time and space accepted the lost ending, and the people in parallel time and space could continue to write fairy tales.

But thinking carefully and recalling the previous story, Li Ziwei said to Huang Yuxuan, if you have a nightmare, you hook my finger, so that you know it is a dream - and in the sweet dream at the end of the film, Huang Yuxuan is hooking Li Ziwei finger. So whether this is also a dream, whether this persistence of "wanting to see you" really has a happy ending, it is left to the audience to choose the ending in their hearts.