Recently, there has been a feeling that love movies are turning, where to go?
Unpretentious, unpretentious, authentic modern love world.
Why do you feel this way?
Because of a movie called "Love Myth", the title sounds a bit foreign, but this film is very grounded.
Love doesn't have to be creamy, it's also pyrotechnic
The story takes place in Shanghai, "Uncle" Lao Bai lives a leisurely retirement life, daily is nothing more than painting, cooking vegetables, collecting rent, drinking coffee with his long-time friend Lao Wu, eating afternoon tea with a familiar little cobbler, and occasionally conducting cross-generational debates with his son.
Interestingly, there are three women in Old White's life:
One is the elegant and intellectual Miss Li, who traveled far and wide in her youth, and after ending a marriage, she took her mixed-race daughter alone and lived with her mother.
The other is the charming and charming Gloria, who has a rich and idle husband who disappears and spends all day in the lights and wines.
The other is Lao Bai's ex-wife Bei Bei, who has been divorced from Lao Bai for many years, and the two have retreated to the position of friends.
Different from many previous love movies, "Love Myth" puts a real modern love ecology on the big screen by showing the love stories of this group of people.
Moreover, the love told in "Love Myth" does not pursue romantic immaculate sea oaths, but is hidden in life and occurs in the delicate ends of the city, after all, under the rhythm of modern life, the way love and human beings coexist has long evolved more peacefully and freely, and such a presentation is closer to the audience itself.
For example, if Miss Li and Lao Bai are separated, she and Lao Bai watch the drama together, see the emotional place in the shadows of tears, the drama ended and offered to go to Lao Bai's house to drink, after the strong love, Miss Li took advantage of Lao Bai's kung fu to make love breakfast and quietly left, not even saying hello.
In the face of Lao Bai's door-to-door visits, stealing small portraits and taking the initiative to provide accommodation and other romantic and heart-warming actions, Miss Li is naturally moved, although the two have had a moment of thunder and fire, there have also been times when I go to work you come to take the baby to get along, but in the end Miss Li and Lao Bai still did not take the last step, regret? Not really.
In fact, the emotional state between Miss Li and Lao Bai is not exactly the portrayal of many feelings in real life, meeting a person, having a happy reunion, having a passionate yearning, but in the end there is no result, not whose fault, but everyone has carried too much, so no result may be the best result.
For Bei Bei, Lao Bai's identity in her life has changed many times, from husband and wife to friend, the two people who were once the most intimate are now separated by a distance, at both ends of this distance, Bei Bei sometimes enters the play and sometimes watches the play, and getting along with Lao Bai is quite interesting. Both of them withdrew from each other's love, but in each other's lives, each other is an important coordinate.
Bei Bei and Lao Bai this paragraph, but also reflected a large part of the life group portrait, there are many people have fallen in love but for various reasons separated, become the most familiar strangers, but in many cases, love is not the end of the relationship between the two, love evolved into friendship or family affection has become the best way for two people to go down.
On Gloria's side, she is warm and cheerful by nature, for example, when she met Miss Li and Bei Bei when she was a guest at the old Bai family, she naturally and generously washed fruit and tea to become the "host". Gloria and Lao Bai also have a love story, but in the end Gloria laughs and walks away. There is a famous quote from Gloria in the film: "I am in the best state now, I have money and leisure, my husband is missing, don't be too spiritual!" "It just speaks to Gloria's attitude towards life.
The relationship between Gloria and Lao Bai is actually very delicate, if she has no idea about Lao Bai, it must be no one to believe, after all, Gloria, who sent Lao Bai back to the box at KVT, had a loneliness that no one saw. But for Gloria, love is precious, the price of freedom is higher, and she is more willing to let herself see it like a dragonfly than to fall into a relationship.
It can be seen that the film cleverly uses the male role of Lao Bai to connect three female characters with different characteristics, just like the producer/lead actor Xu Zheng said, "Lao Bai" is the background color of this film, and the three female characters are colorful.
And the emotional relationship between the three women and Lao Bai is also like the epitome of many male and female emotional relationships in life, love does not have to be thrilling, plain is the essence of life, who is not rushing for life, who is not in the slow road of life is difficult to meet confidants, so ah, the love in "Love Myth" is the majority of us.
The most beautiful women are in the film, but also in life
Why do humans like to watch love movies? Probably because people instinctively yearn for love, in love movies, people will always be deeply substituted into it, see the epitome of themselves in the past or the present, watch love movies, and perhaps look for a meeting and dialogue with themselves between the screens.
That's why I love Love Myth, because it seems to make me meet myself and then move forward with warmth and emotion.
The most worth mentioning is the female group portrait created by the film, the women in this love are not all sweet women, but several women with graceful style and charm.
Miss Li has purple hair and a smile, which makes people think that this woman is not simple at first glance. As a single mother, Miss Li has both old and young and her own unstable inner world, and life is not easy for her. But it can also be seen from the film that this woman is fierce when she works, is strict and serious when raising a baby, keeps herself in order and has good taste, and indeed lives into the envy of many people (of course, there is also countless bitterness behind it).
Bei Bei is a type as warm as water, dignified and generous, and also very enlightened in the education of children, when she first met Miss Li, Gloria and others in the living room of the old White family, although there was a short hesitation, she sat down cheerfully and talked with everyone about the wine. In The case of Bei Bei, she will occasionally fall into the love role she once had, but she will immediately look at the status quo very soberly, adjust her mentality and happily integrate, and it is also very rare for a woman like Bei Bei to get along generously after a relationship is over.
As for Gloria, she is the most dashing of the three, with the attitude of "drinking today and getting drunk in this day", and the radiant way she smiles really makes people want to applaud her. But Gloria must also have a sad side, although the game is also like a legless bird that can never find a stable branch. I have to say that Gloria has done this very well, she manages her emotions and mentality very well, she does not have the luxury of asking for love, and protects herself well.
These three women's life experiences, temperaments, and emotional concepts are different, but they all live out the most beautiful appearance of their lives, and the occurrence of love only makes them more beautiful and makes them better.
What kind of woman is the most beautiful? Independent, confident, brave women are the most beautiful. In the past cognition, it seems that women are in a weak position in the love relationship, but in fact, it is not, especially for modern women, in a relationship, they are responsible for themselves and do not rely on others, more like their attitude towards love. In the film, whether it is Miss Li, Bei Bei, Gloria or handsome Yangyang, they all hold autonomy in the emotional relationship, are not led by anyone's nose, and also maintain an elegant posture in emotional communication. This, in fact, is also the most beautiful side of "Love Myth".
In addition, the male emotional story in the film is also impressive. Lao Bai and the three women have had emotional exchanges, and finally he and his mother said "I will not get married", perhaps he also understood that feelings do not have to be forced, do not force others, do not force themselves.
Lao Wu first used the "Little United Nations" to shape his own playboy image, and then told a mysterious love story, and finally used a joke to say "I made it up!" It made the crowd cry and laugh. Believe the story of Lao Wu? This also became an open-ended ending to "Love Myth", but I am inclined to believe that Lao Wu used his lifelong wait to verify the sentence "Love does not know how to rise and go deep", all the people in the film are realistic, but Lao Wu has become the most romantic person.
In fact, love is a cold and warm self-aware one-man show, especially for modern urban people, there are still too many problems in work and life that need to be courageous and face each other, and love may be as said in the film, it is a piece of sugar, everyone is silently queuing, maybe the part of the line is a candy store, or there may be nothing, but in the process of queuing, everyone has completed a self-growth.
Good movies will touch people's hearts and make people laugh and cry, just like "Love Myth", which shows the meaning of love to life in a weight-lifting way, and shapes the image of a group of men and women in modern love. In the process of watching the movie, it seems to have seen countless you and me in life, so I understand the audience's love movie, it is really the first time to see.
I can't say whether love is a myth or not, but this movie is at least a "myth" in Chinese romance films.