Compared with Xu Fangfei's literary film reviews, which are like a dragonfly skimming over the water, Chen Jingning's film reviews appear to be more straightforward.
"As expected of Director Gou's daughter-in-law, she is indeed a husband and wife. In terms of fan love, Director Mu Qing is not much worse than Director Gou, at least I think this is the case in "If Love Has a Will".
In my opinion, a classic movie is like a cup of chrysanthemum tea. It does not have the fragrance of coffee or the spiciness of old wine. It is just bland, but you can feel its fragrance immediately until you drink it for the second time. The third time, it was still fragrant, with lingering fragrance lingering in the air.
Undoubtedly, "If Love Has a Will" is such a film. It does not have Kang's passionate national justice, nor does it have a profound perspective on human nature. Even the ending of the film is different from most movies. It is neither a heart-wrenching tragedy nor a heart-wrenching tragedy. A comedy that everyone is happy with, it is just a very pure love movie, but it can stir up your thoughts, touch your heartstrings, and make you endlessly moved and emotional.
But when we turn around, we will find that it is really difficult to find such pure films.
Love is love, without all the complexity and impetuousness of society, there is only love itself, and that is enough.
When they met for the first time, three youthful teenagers waved their hands excitedly towards the equally youthful girl. At that moment, there was nothing mixed with them. Some were just teenagers with admiration, and some were just the purest youth hormones. Ji Dong, some are just the excitement and joy of seeing the graceful girl, which is the most true expression of emotion.
When they meet again, the changes in their expressions are so understandable that they treasure the secrets they share. With just a smile and a look, they understand each other's thoughts, this tacit understanding, this little theft. Hi, maybe that’s what touches people’s hearts the most, right?
It’s just love at first sight and a tacit understanding when we meet again, but there are always some things that stand between each other, because in addition to love, there are other things in life, including family, parents, and friends. When love and family affection deviate from family and friendship At that moment, the tragedy was actually doomed at that moment.
Because besides love, there are other impurities.
If love has God's will, do you choose to work hard to get love, or do you choose to wait quietly for love to come; if love has God's will, are you prepared to have nothing else once you have it, or is it not about lasting forever, but only about what you once had? Every audience has their own story, so every audience has their own answer, and every answer is a standard answer. The answer given by the film is: If love has God's will, let it shuttle between two people in the world. Its ingenious continuation makes people have to believe in fate.
There is a total of 120 minutes of the movie. The director tried his best to describe the storyline and show the relationship between the characters in the first 80 minutes. It looks like an ordinary love movie with nothing special about it. But in the next half hour or so, the film took a turn, pushing the emotion to a climax step by step.
From Wu Junha's resolute decision to join the army and rush to the front line, Zhu Xi's touching cry at the train station, Wu Junha's desperate search for the necklace on the battlefield, and their reunion in a restaurant many years later, and finally Zhu Xi's ashes Spreading towards the river where they once played when they were young, these five clips flooded towards the audience like a flood, leaving no chance for the audience to catch their breath. But we don't feel tired because the director has worked hard to prepare the film for the first 80 minutes. At this time, the audience's emotions are like a flood that has dug up a dike and will not stop. I don't know how many girls burst into tears when watching this movie. As a girl, I already had tears in my eyes by the second half of the movie.
I think the reason why the film is so touching is that it is particularly quiet but not boring, allowing every viewer to be slowly integrated into the film. Therefore, in the second half of the film when emotions explode, the audience naturally follows the protagonist. Sighing and weeping over fate.
In terms of content, there are no fierce conflicts or exciting plot arrangements in the film. Even when the hero and heroine face the direction of love, their performances are silent struggles. In terms of picture style, it is not particularly beautiful compared to other film and television blockbusters, but it looks very clean and comfortable.
The small bridges, rivers, trees and country roads all seemed so familiar, just like the village where we played in childhood, and seemed particularly close. And the sequence of scenes where the hero and heroine catch fireflies by a small bridge brings our thoughts back to the innocent days of childhood. Once upon a time, we also lived like this, but the atmosphere in the film is more romantic.
When people face a relationship, sometimes they look forward and find it full of difficulties and no results. As a result, you may lose the motivation to persist in this relationship. From the perspective of the relationship between the male and female protagonists, I feel that if you give up a heart-to-heart relationship because it has no results, what you will lose are beautiful memories that you may never encounter again. If we don't give up, let nature take its course, and keep every good thing in the past in our hearts, even if we can't be together in the end, our lives will become beautiful because of the existence of such a person.
The dialogue in the film is very beautiful and impressive, full of poetic artistic conception.
I can go anywhere with you on my back, like the most beautiful poem, not too gorgeous, but deeply touching.
You must come back alive, your lover is waiting for you in the distance. War is cruel, taking away happiness, laughter, and affection, leaving you forever confused, leaving behind a cruel waiting.
The hardest thing to forget is the innocent beginning. I still miss you, on rainy days, under the eaves, in the autumn wind, the love that will not dry up.
How to keep that innocence and innocence? It is best not to be complicated or fearful, to be clean and simple, not to have too many worries and not to look ahead. Life is short and life is impermanent. I will accompany you in the rain and make memories together, in this complicated world. The world, keep a moment of peace, bless this pair of lovers, and bless all those who love each other.
And I really started to burst into tears from this line: "I'm crying now, can't you see my tears? Why do you hide the fact that you are blind?"
Actually, I can’t tell you why I cried like that. Do you need a reason to be moved?
Zixi and Shangmin, with similar development and different endings, can be regarded as fulfilling everyone's expectations for a happy ending. With modern consciousness, they have more courage and can pursue love more freely.
Thank you for our fate, thank you for meeting us. We not only need realistic stories, but also artistic expressions. This is how people become rich and interesting.
When the sun shines on the sea, I miss you; when the hazy moonlight shines on the spring, I miss you. Open your ears, when you can hear your heartbeat, the person you love is also loving you, close your eyes, when there is a smile on the corner of your mouth, the person you love is also loving you. "
