I learned about this movie when I heard a classmate from our major talk about it during a meal.
The first thing this classmate talked about was the director of this movie. The director of "Like You" is named Xu Hongyu. For our radio and television directing students, we know him not for his movies, but for his superb editing skills.
He is a very famous editor.
When I first heard the name of the movie "Like You", like most people, I thought it was just a pure love story.
I thought it would be like most youth love stories, where the love between children is indispensable, and then either end in tragedy or a happy ending.
But after watching this movie, it gave me a different feeling. The protagonists of this movie are Zhou Dongyu and Takeshi Kaneshiro. The plot is probably that Lu Jin, who is in charge of a multinational economy, is mean and picky, and his only hobby is food.
The chef Gu Shengnan played by Zhou Dongyu is confused and slovenly, but he can make dishes that suit Lu Jin's appetite.
But they fell in love with each other because of an acquisition and a dish.
In fact, I think both of them are capable actors. I have also watched Zhou Dongyu's "July and Ansheng" and other works. I think she is a relatively unique actor.
In "Like You" she perfectly interpreted the role of Gu Shengnan.
In this movie, I think the director chose some shooting techniques very well. It is different from some movies we have seen before.
Because the director is an editor, he may first consider how to edit better, what kind of shots can perfectly connect and give people visual beauty, and he will also have different expression techniques to express the relationship between the two.
and reveal what happened next.
Personally, I don't really like plots that are too ink-filled and talk about relationships all the time, but that's not the case in this movie. This movie is mainly about food.
Using food as the entry point to narrate the story, in the end the two were not together because of food, but because of the feelings in their hearts.
This is what touches me the most. It is reasonable but unexpected. This is also the most essential point when we write scripts and make movies.
The last shot of "Like You" shows the two of them sitting on the balcony watching the sunset, which may be another kind of foreshadowing and emotional edification.