Note: This article contains spoilers
If there is a candle, just blow it out, you can go back to the day you lost your lover, would you choose to redeem everything?
Directed by Lin Xiaoqian, starring Chen Feiyu and Zhou Ye, the love movie "Say I Love You" tells the story of the blind box designer Gu Yuxuan (played by Chen Feiyu) and the baker Han Shuyan (played by Zhou Ye) who met when they were children. The latter two meet again and fall in love, but face many tests in life. On Gu Yuxuan's birthday, his girlfriend Han Shuyan passed away unexpectedly. He had to blow out the birthday candles again and again, and relive the story of saving his girlfriend on this day.
Countdown to Say I Love You Poster
In terms of casting, the male and female protagonists are quite suitable for the roles in terms of appearance and acting skills.
Chen Feiyu's lines are better than expected, and many narration parts in the film are well handled, and his voice processing ability is better than expression management. If you want to dig out the details, the control of the facial features needs to be strengthened. In this regard, he had a similar problem in "Light Me Up, Warm You Up".
And Zhou Ye, who returned to the big screen, can be said to have returned to his comfort zone, charming and cute, acting as an ideal girlfriend in everyone's eyes. Especially compared with herself in the domestic drama "Youth in War" (filmed in 2019), the emotional processing has been optimized a lot and the progress is obvious. In the second half of the many crying scenes, the pear blossoms are raining, I feel pity for it, and it can make people empathize.
As for Zhao Xiaotang and Sun Tianyu, the vice-line Xipi, the characters are also very suitable. The interaction between the two of them is not much, but it is quite interesting, and it is the funny role of this film.
The hero and heroine reunited at the best friend's wedding.
From the perspective of the plot, Xipi, who redeem each other, is often sweet and abusive, and abusive and sweet. In the film, the life details of the hero and heroine interact with each other lovingly, and the love scene is really impressive. Among other things, handsome guys and beautiful women are filmed like MVs, and there are enough mixed-cut materials at station b.
Although it focuses on love, "Say I Love You" actually has a bit of surreal fantasy, which is the main reason why the plot attracted me to the theater. The reincarnation of time and space, double travel, reversal and reversal, brought many surprises in the second half of the film, and the ost and soundtrack also matched well. Logically, it is reminiscent of an American movie "Happy Death Day" a few years ago, but in terms of atmosphere, "Say I Love You" focuses on warmth and redemption, not so scary.
In the love scene, the main focus is sweetness.
The only regret is that there are some bugs in the logic of the script. For example, why can the old version of the two appear in front of the young version? The film does not look like parallel time and space or multiple universes, because the selection of the elderly version will also change according to time travel. The author has been waiting for the ending to reveal this suspense, but unfortunately it never did.
I have to say that the author is quite satisfied with the portrayal of life details and the shaping of character relationships in "Countdown to Say I Love You". For example, the male protagonist’s personality is subtly influenced by his father’s domestic violence, and he will be a little anxious. After losing his temper, he regrets running to apologize to the female protagonist to make up for it. These are the control groups that echo his father’s behavior pattern. Another example is the relationship between the heroine and her mother, which also slowly breaks the ice with the help of the heroine. Cherishing the present, companionship, understanding and tolerance are the main themes throughout the film. Although there is a surreal setting of time reincarnation, the characters are still real people.
The dream of the young couple is to open a cake shop.
As a love movie, the handling of the relationship between the characters in this film is relatively peaceful. The whole film is full of small couples or romance or difficult life, and there are no particularly big conflicts. Even if there are parts of car crashes, debt collection, and quarrels, It will be resolved after three times, five times and two divisions, and it will inevitably be a little painless. In fact, the ending can be changed to be more intense and more conflicted. BE literature is also possible.
The secret sign between the two: duck, rabbit, silly and unclear.
Overall, if 5 points is the full score, you can score 3.5 points. If you don't care about logical issues so much, it is suitable for young couples to watch movies.
