I think the movie is very good, some of my own gibberish

Alisa 2022-04-21 09:03:45

"The Half Of It" is a gentle movie. Although it sets up a complex and contradictory relationship between four corners, what everyone really struggles with is not the choice of love, but how to follow their heart and be themselves. ......Because this movie was watched in two parts, so I didn't know what to say for a while after the movie ended, and my mind was still completely stuck on that stupid but sincere young man who couldn't chase after him. on that train. Borrowed from the previous comment on Zhihu. This movie is really the best youth-themed movie I've seen in 2020. It's not conventional and has nothing to do with racial beliefs. All the elements are naturally combined, with delicate and colorful The shots and a little humor every now and then, it's really great. The characters in the movie are still relatively idealized. Although the rich second-generation son is narcissistic, he is not bad. The male protagonist is stupid but not lustful. The female second is beautiful but not a vase. races do not conflict. In short, it is a beautiful and hopeful youth film, which adds a little hope to this cruel and unfair world.

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  • Stuart 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    Obviously it's LOVE STORY?

  • Joy 2022-03-26 09:01:14

    "Campus Love", which destroyed "Face" and reshaped the American youth genre film, has a bold enough Chinese heart. Wu Siwei drew Plato not to tell us a Platonic love story, but to criticize this kind of love. Because she knows that the essence of spiritual love is not love, but unrequited love and narcissism. In fact, the author brings us her autobiography: a man who once acted as a stand-in for the other eventually becomes irreplaceable by "daring to love". This is why Kazuo Kuroishi, who wrote "Don't Let Me Go" and "Scars of the Day", is mentioned many times. If modern people misread the ancient philosophers to some extent, then the "wrong love" of Sartre by today's high school students is even more outrageous, because the phrase "others are hell" is a misunderstanding of God and abandoned by God. pagan quotes, and the film is essentially a story of how a pagan finds faith in others. In the end, the Chinese girl kissed the Western goddess, and the American boy also learned Eastern cooking. Judging from the interaction between Chinese and Western cultures, this is a true spiritual love.

The Half of It quotes

  • Ellie Chu: The good thing about being different is that no one expects you to be like them.

  • Paul Munsky: So when does the dating start?

    Ellie Chu: This IS dating.

    Paul Munsky: No, dating's burgers and-and fries and shakes, and maybe another order of fries.