3.5. Simple and not pale enough to be boring. Isn't that what summer love is like? Films written with spiritual temperament are light and heavy. Ou Rong didn't intend to tell a well-founded story, but used Alex's thoughts to create the 1980s that he experienced and invested in the conflict of love and hate. Individual liberalism fades amid the complexities of youth culture and fears of the AIDS outbreak, but it solidifies young people's attitudes toward life and death, love and betrayal: everything is fleeting and unforgettable, and ends at the best of times is another kind of loyalty. David is a small object of this epochal incarnation, a good practice of the "paradox of desire": what he is chasing is the pursuit itself, and what Alex falls in love with is not "him", but the complete reality, which is clearly discernible The reality is one's own desires and dreams. At the end, Alex, like David, chooses the moment to feel, experience, and exist. Ou Rong has always been unstable, and the quality of his works is uneven. This time he also started to pay tribute to himself. The play is still weak, but there are still some notable points, such as the use of meta-text structure, which reminds people of "Bad Education" ", the story is also the reality, the narrator is also the character, the film is also a novel, the dead boy continued his life in words and mirrors, turned into a sign of the film, and finally became Alex himself; such as emotional scheduling and editing, Make the rhythm and theme of the film hit it off. Although it is easy to understand, it gets rid of the director's past frivolity and injects the depth of his personal experience. The casting this time was very successful. The two actors' performances were vivid and just right. In Ou Rong's sharp and sophisticated lens, he could handle both sweetness and pain. Of course, Ou Rong is too good.
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