Although you say so, it doesn't prevent me from liking it at all.
Zhou Dongyu and Takeshi Kaneshiro's Like You, for me, is definitely a pleasant surprise.
The story is actually very cliche: the love story of a female diaosi and an overbearing president.
Jin Lu, played by Takeshi Kaneshiro, is a standard successful man, worth $35 billion, with assets all over the world. He holds the power of life and death in international hotels and has the power to seize power with money.
Gu, the heroine played by Zhou Dongyu, is a creative chef who focuses on food. She's a good cook, but she gets by. Is a standard female diaosi.
What connects them is a series of delicious food with outstanding creativity and first-class taste.
Takeshi Kaneshiro loves to eat, and Zhou Dongyu loves to cook.
We have seen this kind of old-fashioned story a lot.
So, why is such an ordinary or even vulgar story praised by most people?
Up to now, Douban scored 7.3, and more than half of people gave the film more than 4 stars (out of 5 stars).
I think it's the physical pleasure brought by this movie. That kind of sweet and astringent doping, careless grin and laughter, warm heart feeling.
Sweet, full of the whole story.
As a standard gourmet, Jin Lu, played by Takeshi Kaneshiro, is almost critical of food.
When water boils at 100 degree, it will volatilize the flavor of noodles. Noodles are cooked in three minutes, but when they are not thorough, it is the most important thing. Time is the enemy of noodles, and how to control time is the key.
Soak in hot water first, and then put the seasoning bag after the water is completely poured out. Then add hot water to soak, calculate the time, and enjoy the first bite of food when the specified time comes.
Because the noodles in one second taste completely different from those in the next.
Pickiness also means concentration. Jin Lu's devotion to food is almost unparalleled, so he can have a bite of instant noodles like a Manchu banquet.
For food lovers, when the favorite food is chewed repeatedly in the mouth, the sweetness is in the taste buds.
And Zhou Dongyu Gu is a noisy advocate. She is not beautiful, and her figure is not as delicate as her best friend's. In the words of "ex-boyfriend" (wishful love object), she is like a leek in the meat market, dry and tasteless.
She is eccentric and unrestrained. After "lovelorn", I ran around the roof in the middle of the night, sloppy and lazy, and even the bedroom was like a kennel.
But just like this, she is meticulous in cooking, passionate and dedicated, and can make all kinds of delicious food that is imaginative, creative and exquisite enough for the taste buds to submit.
This sense of contrast also makes her look particularly cute. Crying makes people want to laugh, and laughter can make people sweet.
The sweetest thing is the subtle feeling of ignorance between two people.
Have you ever tried to open an umbrella on a bus?
Have you ever felt sad and dissatisfied because the person you like ate the food cooked by another opposite sex?
Have you ever tried to do something that only fools do when you are in love?
I think there is.
Therefore, many romantic and absurd plots in the story have particularly real penetrating power.
It makes your eyes unconsciously moist and your nose unconsciously sour. Laugh till you are tired, sweet till you cry, and greedy till you drool.
Looking at Gu lying in bed in disorder is like seeing another self.
The hero and heroine who ate puffer fish food poisoning entered the fantasy world.
They imagine that it is raining cats and dogs indoors, and people can control the rainfall by shouting.
They walked under the clear night sky with umbrellas. They raised their umbrellas on the bus. Gu picked up the fallen umbrella handle as a hair dryer and seriously helped the overbearing president blow his hair.
Gu is stupid, but what she has always been aloof and difficult to do follows suit. She was poisoned and still stayed with her after waking up.
This is probably the favorite power in the legend, which makes people different.
Let introverted people become lively, serious people become cheerful and lonely people become warm.
No one is watching them, so naturally they are silly and happy, and they don't care about the laughing eyes around them like crazy people.
Gu said, it's raining so hard, why don't they take an umbrella? Are they jealous that only we have umbrellas?
When I am in love, I seem to have lost my IQ.
Immersed in the joy of love, doing what we think is "right", seeing people around you think they must be envious and jealous, but in fact people really just regard you as a stupid pen.
But who cares, the two of us, just be happy.
He was nominated for best editing in Hong Kong Film Awards twice and for best editing in Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards once. Xu Hongyu has participated in many great works, but Like You is his debut as a director.
He said: Speaking of love, I just want to talk about love.
Therefore, this is also a work with a small pattern. It doesn't want to tell you the truth, understand the true meaning of life, talk about meaning, ideals and values.
This time, it just wants to talk to you about the stupidity of love.
Too sweet, but astringent.
In your impression, what is astringency?
Encyclopedia says that the tongue feels numb and not smooth. It also means to speak slowly, difficultly and fluently.
Just like many questions and puzzles in the early days of love, contradictions and conflicts caused by small things.
Gu doesn't understand why people can eat dishes cooked by two people at the same time.
"I don't care, you can only eat my own cooking."
I can't say why, but if you eat someone else's cooking, I will be very concerned and unhappy.
He said it was just a dish.
This is a natural gender difference between boys and girls. Girls are very sensitive and subtle. A little thing can always lead to countless associations. For boys, it's just eating vegetables. For girls, eating vegetables is a very private matter, which is related to your feelings for me.
You brought a quilt and pajamas to my house to eat my cooking and share the food and joy with me. This is unique. I don't want to share this uniqueness with others.
Have you ever tried it? Because it's such a small thing that a man won't care.
But the girls were angry at first, and later they became more hysterical because of the man's indifference.
It's silly to look back after making up.
Gu Chengnan tried to ask, "I'm just an ordinary person. What if I can't reach your height? "
"But you are special."
"I just hate that your brain is stupid, your speech is illogical, your work is disorganized, you are confused when you are awake, you are even more confused when you are drunk, and your home is as dirty as a pigsty!"
Then Jin Lu, handsome enough to explode, shouted, "I have no choice but to like you or not."
Love is an unreasonable and unspeakable love.
Director Xu Hongyu said:
"We may have fantasies about the person we like, but when a person appears in front of you, all the conditions are not in line with your fantasies, but you will still like him. This is true love. So we chose Takeshi Kaneshiro and Zhou Dongyu who is very different from him. "
After the sweetness is over, it is a kind of warmth.
Jin Lu, who grew up eating alone, learned to eat for two people.
She said she liked watching the sun, so he found her the best place to watch the sunset.
It seems that many people will become different because of love.
He opened the window and saw two old people sitting on a small balcony, facing the sunset under the dark red light.
Later, he took her to this small balcony, holding a bowl of freshly cooked Lamian Noodles, sitting together and watching her favorite things in the sunset.
He asked her: Do you want to sit and wait for the sunset tomorrow?
I watched the evening show, and there were not many people in the cinema. After the performance, everyone waited for the egg performance before leaving.
Chen Qizhen's voice sounded, and the girl in the front row took the boy's arm and said, I'm hungry. Go home and cook instant noodles for me
I looked at my heartbroken boyfriend and felt good.
Let people in love fall in love more, and let single people look forward to the feeling of falling in love again. There is no better romantic movie.
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