介绍:
Technically, 'You are the Apple of my Eye' is not a good movie, yet there is no denying that it is a successful one. Five days after its debut in Chinese mainland cinemas, it's now No. 2 of the week's top list on Mtime, a Chinese version of International Movie Database. Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by author Giddens Ko, the movie is most sincere in presenting the love lives of adolescents, and that's perhaps the reason for its success.
Ko Ching-Teng and Shen Chia-Yi had been classmates since junior high school. Ko was mischievous and a pain in the neck to the teachers, while Shen was a good student favored by teachers and every other boy in the class except Ko. A shared unhappy experience in class brought the two close, and Ko decided to study hard with Shen's encouragement. But being young and immature, the two eventually went separate ways after a fight. Years later at Shen's wedding, Ko expressed his feelings for Shen once again, and proved to all that Shen was to be forever the apple of his eye.
If you insist on looking at it as a movie, I'll have to say 'You are the apple of my eye' scores no better than average. The movie is practically a combination of an ordinary adolescent's day-to-day encounters – they may be interesting to read, but definitely difficult to be converted into a smooth visual appeal.
But if you look at it as a story that's visually-enhanced with modest filming technique, then you have a good story that really goes into your heart. Watching the movie brings you back to your own adolescence and makes you remember your own high school sweetheart. You might have shied away from her glance and dared not even talk to her, or you might have tried to piss her off every day just to catch her interest, but at the end of the day, the thought of her was always the source of strength, an inexhaustible reservoir of strength that supported your struggle to become a better person. You may have been with her for a while and when she was gone you felt like a part of you was gone too, but still every time you think of her, you remember yourself – the good self who loved her. And then you know she will always be the apple of your eye, and you sincerely wish her all the happier with or without you.
Yes, Giddens Ko's story is all about that. Of what it falls short it makes up by sincerity. It is a movie makes you remember the best and the sincerest part of yourself. It is a movie for adolescents, and those whose adolescent hearts haven't quite been toughened by poisoned milk powder and promotion and downpayment and Cadillac. As long as men can feel, the sort of movie will always have audience.
On a scale from one to ten, 'You are the apple of my eye' gets an Eight.
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