Umm, this is supposed to be a love story and romance, but it didn't turn out to be like that. As some critics said, it doesn't show love and romance. What they said was right. Although it does have some kind of love between two main characters, but it wasn't that strong. So, it didn't turn out to be love and romance drama.
The reason why I watched this is that a friend posted this on his Facebook profile, so, I thought I would give it a try. While I was watching it, although it's some kind of drama, especially, it's a love and romance that kind of thing, but it didn't make me bored. That's why I gave four stars. Words are said like that, but it doesn't make this film a good film.
There are some facts I don't like. Among them, what I don't like the most is that the female leading role is being deliberately pulled away from the male leading character who is also happened to be her boyfriend. I mean they could have gone with the flow. Even if they wanted to break the couple up, they could do it in a smooth way. But the way they chose to do it, it can clearly be seen it's done on purpose. So, I think it's one of the worst facts of this film.
One more thing I'd like to mention is that the story isn't complete. It's like they cut in the middle. They should have continued. Cutting in the middle only makes the audience unsatisfied. So, if they continued, it'd be better.
All in all, the film indeed is not that much boring. Even a girl who doesn't like love and romance films, could watch it, I guess you could too. So, I'm not saying it's one of the worst films and not worth spending time with, but it doesn't strong and it needs to be better than this. It's worth to give it a try.
Plot summary
The story started in high school. Su Yunjin (Liu Yifei) is a struggling transfer student from a regional town, while rich heir Cheng Zheng (Kris Wu) is the star student who sits behind her. He fell in love with her and started to pursue her all the way through college, even though they studied and lived in different cities. Cheng Zheng was ultimately successful in pursuing Su Yunjin, who willed herself to follow her heart for once, even though she knew there would be many obstacles in their way. Soon, they were basking in happiness, and subsequently moved in together after university. However, reality caught up with them two years after graduation. Their vastly different personalities and disparate family background meant their relationship was unequal from the very beginning - their unspoken expectations of each other and all the misunderstandings that came with a mundane lifestyle caused them to part ways with each other. A few years later, both of them establish successful careers, and end up living in the same neighborhood, thus meeting and getting entangled in each other's lives again. They both try to move on with different relationships, but are unsuccessful. When Su Yunjin loses her mother to cancer, Cheng Zheng is the only one to comfort her, causing the former to rekindle their relationship.
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Love and romance drama with no love and romance.
Could have been better.
Just finished watching this and I have to say that it could have been way better. Our main characters first meet when he accidentally douses her with water and she is wary of him because he is rich. Long story short, they wind up having the type of high school romance anyone would consider forgettable in real life.
This film tries to make us believe that theirs is a great love story worth fighting for, but it's not. Our hero is cold and looks stiff during those kissing scenes and our heroine really doesn't like him at all. He just doesn't get it. There was very little buildup to the romance. The added side plots don't really help the story. Both of them behave immaturely and the ambiguous ending was frustrating. I had to search for deleted scenes on YouTube that should have wrapped up the ending.
Disappointing.
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If you watch this movie, or any movie. with the intent to critique it, you might be disappointed. But real movie watchers don't care about perfect acting and directing. We don't look for flaws in films. We want to be entertained and we want to feel emotions.
This movie made me feel what they were feeling. It made me live what they were living. It made me remember those same feelings they expressed at that time in my life. My wife got me into watching these Chinese movies, and I'm so glad she did. I have discovered a world of cinema that I never knew existed, because we never saw these in America until Smart TV opened a streaming world to us. This film has the conflicts, the natural life disasters, the urges that drive our love lives.
I'm a former U.S. Army combat engineer during the Gulf War and this film actually made me come to tears a couple times. If you don't feel the emotions in this film, it means you are repressing your emotions. Or it means you have never experienced that type of love and you can't relate to this love story, and that's sad. I must admit that I was disappointed by the open ending, until I saw online that the revised ending had been released in China and I saw that they did end up together. At first I was like, OH NO, not another House of Flying Daggers type ending.
In America we see so much tragedy in our daily lives that we love, we need, movies that have happy endings. A romance like this has to have a happy ending or it breaks our hearts. This love story, even the extended friend story, begs for a sequel. I have waited since 11 years old to see all 9 Star Wars movies. I will live another 800 years waiting for this sequel. I have to see them reprise these roles and finish this story. Maybe after she finishes filming the Live Action Mulan reboot. We all want to see their wedding.
Bottom line? Don't listen to critics. Watch this movie and enjoy it like I did.