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After a gathering with the creators of "Cohabitation in Time and Space", this movie directed by Su Lun and starring Liu Yifei and Lei Jiayin has also entered an intense release period.

On December 1st, "Living Together" held a grand premiere in Beijing. Although not many guests from the industry were present, the premiere hall was packed to the brim with media reporters and specially invited film critics.

There are not many people in the circle because of the main creators of this movie. Except for Liu Yifei, everyone else's popularity and status in the circle are very average. And Liu Yifei is a homebody, and she doesn't have many friends in the circle, so naturally she doesn't Not many people were invited.

However, the guests invited by Light and Shadow Times are full, especially film critics.

To be precise, they are no longer film critics in the pure sense. The kind of film critics who were active in newspapers and media more than ten or twenty years ago have basically been eliminated now.

The profession of film critic first appeared in North America, Japan and other countries, and the reason for its emergence is very simple. In the first few decades of the birth of movies, because society and technology were not developed enough at that time, they were not as developed as they are now. The Internet, so after the movie is released, most ordinary people can only use newspapers and magazines to know the specifics of the movie.

Authors who write film review columns in newspapers and magazines are naturally called film critics. Even in that era when the newspaper and magazine industries were developed, every country had a large number of film magazines, which specially invited some film critics to write various films. A review article about a movie.

In the most glorious era of Hollywood, each issue of the movie magazine could even collect reviews of dozens of movies released at the same time, so that readers who bought the magazine could clearly know what each movie recently released in theaters was like. .

Of course, this also leads to these film critics having the "influence of public opinion". They say that a movie is good-looking, even if most people who go to the theater think it is not good-looking, the film will still be praised by public opinion.

They say that a movie is not good to watch, even if the moviegoers who actually go to the theater love to watch it, it is useless. The newspapers are also full of critical voices about the movie.

Because ordinary movie fans had no right to speak, and there were no channels to express their opinions at that time. At most, they were occasionally selected to be interviewed by TV reporters, and their interviews were screened before being broadcast on TV.

Therefore, after the industry of film critics has gone through various developments, from being an opinion leader among movie fans at the beginning, they have gradually become notorious for accepting bad money from film companies and unscrupulously writing drafts and bragging about the films of the film companies. There are more and more film critics, making the public more and more disgusted with the so-called film critics.

By the time around 2010, the reputation of film critics in China was basically on the same level as that of "Bricks", and they were very unpopular with movie fans.

It was also at this time that the Internet finally matured. Websites like Douban, which allowed every movie fan to voice and rate movies, became more and more popular. Social platforms like Weibo, where everyone is a self-media, became more and more influential. Come bigger.

As a result, professional film critics finally became the garbage of the times, and movie bloggers and UP owners who became regular movie fans began to become the new generation of opinion leaders.

Although these people will inevitably be paid by film companies for public relations as their influence and fans increase, but compared to the era when ordinary people had no way to express their voices in newspapers, the Internet now allows every movie fan to Express your opinions on the Internet. No matter how strong the film company's public relations efforts are, it is impossible to block every fan's social account.

No matter how many movie bloggers praise a bad movie, it is still a bad movie.

No matter how many movie bloggers criticize a good movie, the box office will still keep rising.

Generally speaking, the current film review environment is better than before. Most film reviews on the Internet come from the sincerity of movie fans. Although they may not be "professional" enough, they are definitely in line with the appetite of most people.

The so-called "film critics" invited at the premiere of "Cohabitation in Time and Space" are actually some influential movie Vs on the Internet, and even Douyin bloggers. I hope they can finish it. After the premiere, some objective comments and support were given on the Internet.

Well, in the era of light and shadow, money is still stuffed. After all, the first wave of audiences at the premiere can still be tricked into the theater as much as possible.

As for the evaluation given by movie fans after they enter the theater in large numbers on the day of the release, that is beyond the control of the Light and Shadow Era.

The only thing that can be done now is to let the guests attending the premiere help to brag more and win more fans in the first wave of cinemas.

This is also the reason why many movies have very good public opinion and reputation on the Internet when they are screened or premiered, but their reputation completely collapses after the release. You can fool them for a while, but you can't fool them forever!

However, most of the celebrities who came to attend the premiere of "Living Together" breathed a sigh of relief after watching the movie anxiously.

Fortunately, there is no need to unscrupulously praise this movie on the Internet. Although everyone is paid, if you really insist on praising a bad movie, it will still ruin the reputation and fairness of your account.

And "Cohabitation in Time and Space" is not a bad movie, it can even be considered an excellent movie among romantic comedies.

Putting aside the unrealistic fantasy logic structure, the love part is pretty good to watch. The two actors are likable and comfortable, and they are naturally sweet, but it is not a pure comedy.

Comedy should have a tragic core, and "Time Travel" does hide a tragic story under the appearance of comedy.

Any work that involves the modification of history can hardly avoid the "grandmother paradox" or similar ethical confusions. If you go back to the past and kill your grandmother, how can you go back to the past in the first place when you no longer exist?

In this film, the director's answer to this question is: you can't get close to your past or future self, and you can't even get rich through lottery.

Originally, the male protagonist Lu Ming was in the universe of 1999, and the female protagonist Gu Xiaojiao was in the universe of 2018.

For Lu Ming, there was only one universe before 1999, which is the universe he is in now, because all observations have already taken place and the dust has settled. What is uncertain is the future that has not yet been experienced, and there are countless universes in front of him.

But now, because in the universe where Gu Xiaojiao is, Lu Ming in 2018 accidentally opened the channel between the two universes, and Lu Ming in 1999 was equivalent to entering this future universe before experiencing the future to find out.

However, this universe is just one of the countless universes he may fall into in the future.

All that he saw was not necessarily going to happen.

Any action of Lu Ming in 1999 in his own determined universe would easily destroy half of the future universes, and perhaps the universe where Gu Xiaojiao, whom he knew, was located, belonged to the destroyed half.

Tragedy has taken root here.

The audience witnessed the confusion that the parallel universe brought to both Lu Ming and Gu Xiaojiao.

Because they really loved each other, this was a love beyond time and space, a love that was almost impossible to achieve.

In the movie, the process of their love was very interesting, full of laughter and very sweet, but after the sweetness, they had to face reality.

The universe of Lu Ming in 1999 was in the vast parallel time and space. How could it be guaranteed that this time and space 19 years later would be the time and space of 2018 where Gu Xiaojiao was at this moment!

So the world began to mess up.

Under the butterfly effect, the time and space of 1999 had inevitably affected this time and space of 2018.

Lu Ming in the universe of 2018 has new memories, and he also knows about Gu Xiaojiao's memories. If Lu Ming in 1999 does not live according to the life trajectory in his memory and makes any different choices, then the time and space of 2018 will be changed and disappear.

Moreover, he himself has not experienced the relationship between Lu Ming and Gu Xiaojiao in 1999. For him, it is just that there is a memory of "another self" in his mind.

Because in his own memory, he did not meet Gu Xiaojiao in 2018 in 1999, so he was at a loss when facing Gu Xiaojiao in 2018. He has love for Gu Xiaojiao in his memory, but this love does not come from him, but from another parallel world.

He also has to "clean up" for this self who lives in the past, trying to make everything go back to the time when the two time and space did not meet, and keep the time and space of 2018.

For Gu Xiaojiao in 2018, she fell in love with Lu Ming in 1999 in another parallel world, not the Lu Ming in 2018 in front of her.

For Lu Ming in 1999, when he chose to change what happened in the future, saved Gu Xiaojiao's father, and changed Gu Xiaojiao's life, it was equivalent to creating a new timeline, a new parallel time and space. His time and space were destined to be impossible to go to the time and space where Gu Xiaojiao was in 2018.

Both Lu Ming and Gu Xiaojiao in 2018 no longer exist because Lu Ming rescued Xiaojiao's father in 1999.

This no longer exists means that everyone will start over in the history from 1999 to 2018.

For Lu Ming in 1999, he fell in love with Gu Xiaojiao in 2018 who lost his father in another time and space, not Gu Xiaojiao whose father was rescued in his own time and space, and that time and space in 2018 no longer exists because he "changed history".

So at the end of the movie, Lu Ming in the 1999 space-time lived to 2018 and met Gu Xiaojiao in this space-time. Gu Xiaojiao's last words were: Why are you a pervert again?

Because she had no memory of falling in love with Lu Ming, and had never experienced that encounter at the intersection of time and space.

For Lu Ming, for this Lu Ming who once loved Gu Xiaojiao in the 2018 space-time, even if he found Gu Xiaojiao in his own space-time, she would not recognize him.

The only way for Gu Xiaojiao in the 1999 space-time to know Lu Ming was through Lu Ming's perverted pursuit of him.

Gu Xiaojiao did not know the emotions Lu Ming was carrying.

So many years have passed, and the universe where you and I met has completely disappeared because I saved your father. The you who once loved me and lived in the future no longer exists. All that is left is me, a pervert, trying to capture your figure in the new world line I chose to create.

How fragile the memory is, so fragile that even the person who has this memory is the only one left, myself.

Under the surface of the seemingly comedic film, there is an extremely sad love story. Two lovers who met and fell in love across time and space are destined to be unable to be together. Even Gu Xiaojiao in the 2018 time and space completely disappeared with this time and space.

This is even sadder than ordinary unrequited love.

After Su Lun introduced the concept of "parallel time and space" in the film, he raised the upper limit of this love film, making it more "watchable", not just a comedy, nor just love.

Of course, this is also thanks to the fact that both Hollywood and China have played with the theme of "parallel world" in recent years. The audience and fans have long been familiar with this concept, which makes this movie interesting.

If it was put 20 years ago, when most Chinese audiences had no understanding of the concepts of "parallel time and space" and "time travel", such a movie would definitely make most fans look confused after watching it, and they would not understand the sad core under the comedy shell of the movie.

But fortunately, today's movie fans have experienced the era of the movie explosion. Not to mention anything else, Hollywood has produced countless excellent love movies involving time travel in recent years, such as "Time Traveler", "Time Traveler's Lover", "Untouchable Lover" and so on.

So even if it was the first time to watch it, most of the invited guests still understood the sadness under this comedy story at once and praised it!

Pure love movies are boring, pure comedy movies are boring, and pure time travel movies are no longer special, but the integration of these three elements and the final performance is not bad, then in the field of Chinese-language movies, it can be regarded as a breakthrough.

Because before this, there has never been such a movie in Chinese-language movies, and only Hollywood has such a movie in the past!

Although Wu Yuan also shot a movie "Love Letter" before, which is a love movie involving time travel, he did not incorporate comedy colors, let alone a science fiction tragedy under the core of comedy, but a simple romantic love movie.

Moreover, as a female director, Su Lun is more delicate than male directors in capturing the language of the lens and interpreting the pictures of love. The whole movie is very smooth to watch, with both laughter and tears.

"When we were in love, you might not have known me yet."

A movie celebrity named [小片片看大片] wrote this sentence in his notebook, and he planned to use this sentence as the title of the movie review to be published in the evening.

Not only him, most of the self-media invited to watch the premiere recorded their feelings about the film as soon as possible, and planned to make videos immediately after returning to the hotel to eat the first wave of traffic!

As film self-media who have watched countless films and are quite experienced, after watching this movie, they keenly felt that this "Time Travel Cohabitation" will definitely be a successful work!

It is definitely impossible to say that it will become a classic, but as the biggest dark horse in December this year, it is absolutely no problem!

It may even win the title of the best love movie in 2018 at the end of this year! (End of this chapter)