After reading this novel in 2015, my first impression was that this story is really suitable for making a movie. When I finally had time this year to think about it, I found out that it has been made into a movie... This is really a movie that is faithful to the original. The pictures when reading the novel were restored to the screen one by one. Ry Russo Young, a female director born in New York, must also have her own real experience with this story. There are no extra shots from the beginning to the end. There are a few pictures that are so beautiful that they remind me of Twilight. I would never be able to shoot her so beautiful. The heroine Zoey Deutch is really amazing. If the movie has five points, four points are hers. Beautiful and calm, it is in line with the temperament of the novel. Those blackened scenes felt amazing, with many details and great acting skills. The movie always mentions Sisyphus, which I think is not very appropriate. If I use Zhou Guoping's "Happy Sisyphus", it should be more in line with the theme of the movie: "One day, I met Sisyphus who was going down the mountain, but found that he was blowing Whistling, walking lightly, with a carefree look on his face... He raised his hand and shouted to me: 'Hey, look, what a beautiful butterfly I've caught!' Looking at his fading back, I couldn't help thinking: There are always things beyond the reach of Zeus' magic whip, which are too small things, and there is the happiness of Sisyphus (and all of us human beings)." Sisyphus is pessimistic, but the heroine is "Happy Sisyphus", she understands this irreversible fact, works hard to discover the beauty in life, and finally learns how to live a day. It seems a bit too much to say that this is the female version of "Time and Space Love Traveler", but the core idea to be expressed is the same, seize the day, our ordinary but precious life, if it is wrong, it will not come again.
I have a bold idea. Wouldn't it be interesting to make a Chinese version?
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