Now as long as we talk about movies, Netflix (Netflix) is really a topic that cannot be avoided.
In recent years, Netflix has made great strides in the field of streaming media, and at the same time, its ambitions in movies have become stronger and stronger.
For example, the 75th Venice International Film Festival recently opened in Venice, the water city of Italy. This film festival will show many high-quality films produced by Netflix such as "Roma", "July 22" and "The Other Side of the Wind". This film festival is also dubbed the Venice Netflix International Film Festival by many filmmakers.
(The film "Roma" directed by Alfonso Cuaron and invested by Netflix)
Some time ago, Netflix produced a sci-fi movie "Upgrade" directed by Ray Warner, which made countless straight men excited to watch. And this time , Netflix actually stretched its claws to youth films and began to harvest the hearts of girls!
This time I want to talk to you about this campus youth film "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" ( To All the Boys I've Loved Before ) produced by Netflix .
16-year-old Laura Jane is a good student with no love experience, but she has a crush on five different boys since childhood.
Kenny I met in the summer camp ↓
Pete I met in seventh grade ↓
Lucas met at homecoming ↓
John I met on Model United Nations ↓
And my sister's boyfriend Josh ↓
Every time Laura has a crush on a boy, she will write her feelings for each other into a love letter, but she will never give the love letter to each other, she just hopes that she can keep this emotion in her heart.
Josh is the person Laura is most familiar with, because although Josh is her sister's boyfriend, the three of them are always together and have nothing to say.
When Laura was about to become a senior in high school, her sister chose to break up with Josh because she was going to college in Scotland. In order to avoid misunderstanding and embarrassment, Laura no longer has any communication and contacts with Josh.
Laura wasn't that kind of star student, didn't have many friends at school, and was often alone. After her sister went to a foreign country, Laura became more lonely and lost.
Laura like this makes her sister very worried. Sister Kitty has always hoped that her sister can make a boyfriend, but her sister has no such idea at all.
In order to allow her sister Laura to have a boyfriend, her sister secretly sent all her sister's love letters! ! ! !
Laura didn't know her sister's behavior until several boys who received love letters came to her one after another.
The first to come to Laura is Pete.
Laura fainted when she saw the love letter in Pete's hand.
Laura, who was lifted up by Pete, saw Josh who was walking towards her again with a love letter in his hand.
In order to avoid being misunderstood by Josh, Laura took the initiative to kiss Pete directly...
After the kiss, the embarrassed Laura hid in the school bathroom alone.
At this time, Lucas found Laura with a love letter and told Laura: I am very happy that you like me, but I am actually a gay...
Kenny's love letter was sent directly to the location of the summer camp camp, so Kenny should not receive it, and John, whom he knew from the Model United Nations, never showed up.
Since Pete and his girlfriend Jean had just broken up, he thought that if he could start a new relationship with Laura now, he would be able to anger his ex-girlfriend Jean in all directions.
For Laura, if she can pretend to be in love with Pete, the other boys who have been sent love letters will not come to her again or have misunderstandings about her.
Well, the two sides are called mutual benefit and mutual win. Then they drafted a "love contract"!
The content of this "love contract" mainly includes:
1. Can't tell anyone we're pretending to be in a relationship
2. Both parties cannot kiss
3. Pete writes little love letters to Laura every day
4. Laura has to accompany Pete on a ski trip in three months
Then they started their "pretend to be in love" .
How similar is this fake love, first of all, they are like the couple in the movie "Sixteen Candles", in front of everyone, Pete's hand is in Laura's trouser pocket.
Pete also gave Laura a little love letter in front of everyone every day.
Set each other's photos on the phone desktop.
Take a group photo at the party to show affection and send a circle of friends.
Slowly, Laura finds it easier and easier for her to have a fake relationship with Pete, and now they always eat together in the cafeteria and even befriend Pete's friends.
According to the usual routine, Laura gradually developed a good impression of Pete, and gradually could not distinguish whether she was pretending to be in love or really in love.
In this way, three months have passed quickly, and the day of the ski trip has arrived.
Although Laura had struggled in her heart, after all, she had already confirmed the conditions in the contract, so she could not refuse.
Their high school ski trips are famous because more students lose their virginity that day than senior week and graduation night combined.
The ski trip that follows is also the climax of the movie. In the end, whether Laura and Pete are really together, I'll leave a suspense here to sell it. If you are interested, you can find the movie to confirm it yourself.
The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by the Asian female writer Jenny Han. The performance of the female lead actress in the film is also remarkable, especially for domestic audiences, it has a girl-next-door feeling. .
It is worth mentioning that the actress Chen Donglan is the actor of the Chinese superhero Li Qianhuan in the previous "X-Men: Apocalypse".
Of course, there have always been many well-made youth films in the United States, but those youth films sometimes make domestic audiences lack a sense of substitution due to cultural barriers. The most fun part of this film is that it selects Asian actors as the protagonists, and has the character of a good girl, which will naturally make the Chinese audience feel more involved, and will not feel that the plot is unreal and unreliable.
The whole film gives the impression that all kinds of sweet to explode, it is a very pure youth campus film without too many impurities.
In the film, Laura and Pitt show their affection in public at the textbook level. There is absolutely no problem with the teaching manual for daily show of affection as a couple.
In addition to the various dog abuses mentioned above, Pitt also drives Laura and his sister to and from school every day; watch each other's favorite movies together; the copywriting in the group photo of the circle of friends is "Baby, you are such a big fool!" Even in the The process of communicating with each other's parents is so harmonious and smooth.
Their performances in the movie seem to allow the audience behind the screen to experience for themselves what kind of experience it is for a single dog to suffer 10,000 crit damage.
As a working dog who has graduated from college for many years, I seem to have returned to my student days in the process of watching the movie. I feel like I am a lot younger, and I will sigh from time to time, it is good to be young!
Why didn't Laura dare to send out the love letter, because Laura, like many girls, was insecure and afraid of losing. Laura herself said , "The more people you let into your life, the more people will come out of your life . "
When Laura was forced to experience the beauty of love due to irresistible factors (sister), she finally realized that love is so happy.
Youth is so beautiful and short-lived. People who like it should tell each other, don't leave any regrets for youth, you must enjoy it.
Of course, this film is not a particularly awesome work from a movie point of view. The film does not break the usual routine of campus youth films, nor does it make a particularly bold adaptation of the original work. It belongs to the kind of relatively safe and highly entertaining film. But for most audiences, it's enough to watch a youth film that can be played in one second, has a strong sense of substitution, is relaxed and happy, and can heal people's hearts.
Perhaps it is precisely because of these characteristics that after the film was launched on Netflix, the reputation of foreign media has soared, and it has received a 95% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and 93% of the audience liked it.
So to sum up, if you feel extremely emptiness and emptiness after watching the finale of "Story of Yanxi Palace", and want to watch a light-flavored youth film, this one has no tearing X, no campus bullying, no The refreshing and refined American youth film of drug addiction must be very suitable for you.
PS Jenny Han's original novels consist of three books in the same series, and the other two are P.S. I Still Love You and Always and Forever Lora Jean.
And the last Easter egg of the movie is that John, whom Laura met at the Model United Nations, stood at the door with flowers and a love letter he received, which means that the story is not over, and the second and third parts of the movie are likely to be in the future. Meet us, look forward to it, hee hee.
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By: The Horse That Eats Wheat
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