For so many years, light-based youth romance films have almost become the "standard" of every light schedule, often seen in Valentine's Day, May Day, summer vacation, Lunar New Year and other schedules, from "Your Wedding" to "Love in Years" ", from "I Really Hate Long-distance Relationship" to "Ten Years, One Product as Gentle as Words", these movies rely on their pleasing genres and basically "stable" word-of-mouth, aiming at couples, the most needed group in movie theaters. Individuals have regrets in their youth. When they grow up, they always have to shed their own tears in other people's stories. The assembly line version of youth love "products" is continuously and steadily produced.
However, the repeated routines of handsome men, beautiful women, bright youth filters and silly white sweet love brains will inevitably "lose to reality" when they grow up, really make people feel a little tired of domestic youth.
This year's May 1st "So Many Years" can be regarded as one of the few youth love movies with realistic expression that is above the standard of a complete commercial pipeline.
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Small towns, patriarchy, native families, class differences, education gaps... This time, the painful youth has more realistic expressions and strengths. Under the "sugar coating" of love that has been waiting for ten years, there is a girl from a small town. The girl herself pursues the pains and helplessness of growing up.
"So Many Years" is the fourth work of "Zhenhua Universe" constructed by August Chang'an. Prior to this, other students from Zhenhua Middle School had staged "Secret Love·Orange Born in Huainan", "The Best of Us" and "Hello, Old Time". Online dramas and movies have also been staged, and some have become the same type of film and television works Some of the "overturned cars" have become negative teaching materials.
This ending chapter, which came belatedly after the original "trilogy", has been extremely popular in the novel stage, especially when it moves towards the adult world after "so many years", the innocent little beauty in the youth campus has fallen into reality after years The mud and dust of the mud, and those who like fairy tales, want nothing more than a clean dream.
Stills of "So Many Years"
As a commercial romance film, the most critical element of whether this relationship is "established" must be the chemical reaction between the actors. Sun Qian and Zhang Xincheng are sufficiently seductive and agile actors. The stubbornness and innocence, playfulness and melancholy of the small-town girl in Sun Qian's frown and smile are all appropriate and natural; while Zhang Xincheng is both ruffian and villainous, and he can really have a sincere "puppy" look in his gaze. The two have a sense of CP, and they are easy to interact with casually. However, many of the clips that are easy to eat are in the tiktok clips of Douyin and Weibo. Those who love sugar can eat it as an easter egg with the movie.
"So Many Years" poster
The title of the film is "So Many Years". The narrative follows the cross-section of the beginning and the end, and always focuses on the "scarf" and "wings" of a small town girl.
In the beginning, the youthful and ignorant love between the good school girl who devoted herself to studying and the bad boy from a wealthy family was a standard character setting in countless "those years" youth films. The difference is that the top female student is a "problem writer" who passed the exam from a small town and came to a key high school in the provincial capital. She has no capital other than the exam. The younger brother in the original family was not as good as her in everything since childhood, but he had all the preferences. Her mother's patriarchal meanness and "exploitation", her father's indifference to her own affairs, and her younger brother's rightful silence even took advantage of all of these, making her just want to escape in her youth.
"So Many Years" poster
From the small town to the provincial capital, CD players, western restaurants, five-star hotels, all strange and new things at the same time inspired her timidity, humbleness and strength. Such a gap between people.
An impressive "heart-wrenching" passage is when Chen Jianxia was sent back to the county high school because she was wronged, and she had a conversation with the local "xueba" classmate-in the middle school entrance examination, their grades differed by one point, and three years later , this gap becomes 30 points. He didn't know whether the change in the score difference was a difference in intelligence or a difference in the level of high school education between the county town and the provincial capital. Chen Jianxia asked him, if you had to choose one, which one would you accept more? I hope it's the former, he said. It was a choice about fairness and hope. It also reminded Chen Jianxia that if she did not try her best to fly away, it might be more difficult to stay in place and fly further. Returning to Zhenhua was her only chance, even if she was persuading her mother Sometimes you need to roar out such a cruel reason as "you can help my brother only if you are promising".
And the ending is a reunion many years later. The bully in the memory of youth learns to be submissive at the wine table, and the glamorous returnee white-collar elite is helpless in the face of the fact that her family is still ugly but is getting old. They are together, and there is exhaustion and love for each other in the sweetness.
The general narrative framework belonging to pure love is still "step by step", and it is difficult to escape the hasty and one-sidedness of the youth film assembly line of the light series. The hero and heroine did not encounter any major resistance, they were suddenly attracted, they were together suddenly, they were separated suddenly, and they met again suddenly. One second they were holding their breath and verbally attacking and hurting each other against their will, and the next moment they were rushing in both directions. Those who do not have a background in the original novel may find it difficult to keep up with this rhythm, or to truly understand the psychological motivations of the characters in it.
But if you pay more attention to the growth line of women, you can see that Chen Jianxia has changed from the selfish selfishness of choosing "self-protection" to gaining more material wealth, a stronger heart, and a greater sense of control over life after years, So I can give up some glamor to choose love, and I can also accept the scars of my original family that I used to worry about in my life. I feel a little relieved-in the domestic youth films, I finally see a more powerful image of young women.
Chen Jianxia is not the leading heroine who counterattacks in the cool novels. She has her own timidity and vanity, her own care and helplessness in judging the situation in reality, and she has her own active counterattacks and choices again and again. Compared with many previous youth films, female characters are used to provide self-touching decorations from the perspective of straight men who chase when they are young, accompany when they grow up, heal when they are injured, and reflect after separation. This change is gratifying. And this sense of power and some of the motivations behind it are presented concretely, which is something worthy of recognition in this film.
Stills of "So Many Years"
In contrast, Li Ran's dedication, timely withdrawal and steadfast waiting are somewhat incompatible with other parts of Chen Jianxia's youth experience. But he will make her scarf, wrap it around to keep warm in winter when he is needed, and pack it up and put it on the bottom of the box when the flowers bloom in spring.
Stills of "So Many Years"
This is probably the youthful light that only exists in youth, and it is also the highlight of the movie dream machine. Companionship and protection are the bravery of a boy, and respect and understanding are the maturity of a man. A young girl can say, "Then I hope it will always be winter" in a moment of emotion, but her name is clearly called "Jianxia". But it is undeniable that it is because she has received such a blatant preference that she can grit her teeth and survive the cold winters to embrace the bigger world.
In the story of Chang'an in August, Chen Jianxia's heartfelt voice is, "No matter how greedy she is, what she wants is not to ride the beast in her heart to catch a passing dragonfly." Not every girl's There is a Li Ran in life, but I hope every girl can be her own Chen Jianxia.