A complete waste of time.
Totally no essence in the story. It's like the production team had a big chunk of money but no story to convey, so they decided the filming location to be abroad as the solution to spend at least 80% of the budget, which would show the result of efficiency in budget management. But by utterly having no idea about what story they should weave, they just threw a very unlikely scene of a catastrophic incident into one point in time during the 90-minute timespan WITHOUT. A. CAUSE. It's like they also knew how their story had nothing at all, so that 'one point in time' they put the incident into was the opening scene to arouse people's curiosity. Though with this trick, the circumstances during the 90 minutes that followed were still very boring and not interesting at all cost. From beginning to end, there's absolutely no meaning in any moment - nothing in or behind the catastrophic incident - so as the whole story.Therefore, let me be rude here -- to hell with the movie title! How is this "A Passage Of My Youth" (--I watched this movie with this as the official movie's title on IQIYI website)?? They didn't have any message to tell the viewers, and they knew it, the hecking incident being used as the bait is the evidence of how obvious this fact also bore in their mind.
Just let me rant a bit more about the acting here -- the acting is so bad. Song Wei Long is so amateur in this film. He looks super young in here, though, so maybe they filmed this when he had less experience before his popularity exploded after all his series that broadcasted in 2020. Jiang Chao's acting is as unimpressive as Song Wei Long's. I don't feel anything along with him. Zhang Zi Feng's is so-so. Her role is super boring and uninteresting. It's a role that has nothing to show, naturally the actor who plays it wouldn't have anything to deliver to the audience.
The cinematography is also very amateur.
I totally don't understand how the producer was willing to invest his money in this self-destroying project.
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P.S.1 Just noticed that this film is adapted from a novel. I don't know if the novel is any good, but this film already destroyed the reputation of the novel.
P.S.2 Just saw the information that this film was shot in 2016 on Baidu. So my speculation about the acting experience of Song Wei Long is right - so is my speculation about the fact that it bears in the producer/production team's minds how bad this film is. It's the fact that made them put this film on the shelf for a total of 5 years. I think this film would be on the shelf forever if not for Song Wei Long's popularity to skyrocket in 2020. Right after that year, they just grasped this last opportunity to make this film any use by finally releasing it.
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Disappointed
Warning: potential spoiler; but what the heck, you be disappointed either way. ?While watching this movie, I realized there was no real substance to the story.. a very dull and plain story line, no essence. Moments later, I realize what deep sadness one must feel, after recognizing your heart and then losing love so quickly. What a tragedy it was. And to what end, there was no explanation to why, or how this tragedy happened. There was no moral highlighted, unless infeŕed; Hold unto love less it burns, literary. I am a little annoyed at how this ended, as I believe the story had potential. The female and male leads didnt bring anything new to the table, just the same roles they played in every other coming of age movie. I wouldn't recommend, unless you love looking at Song Wei Long, and which he hardly did anything here.
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Just Another Teenage Love Story
This is another coming of age drama played out by 3 known young actors Jiang Chao, Song Wei Long and Zhang Zi Feng. The story is nothing new and this drama takes a triangle love story all the way from primary school to London. Lots of the plot are pretty cliche and predictable. However, if you have a free weekend and not keen to go through a drill of a long drama, this movie will fit right in. This is if you are okay to watch 3 good looking actors and have no high expectations, you can give this movie a try.Esta resenha foi útil para você?
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who is dumber ?
well, I watched this just because there is Song Wei Long .. but yet he played a typically character he used to play ..maybe I hoped too much. I also don't know who is the real dumb here, the Female Lead or Dumb Gu ..
but I guess FL, ML and DG are dumb ..
I don't recommend this anyway, don't waste your time but if you just wanna watch Song Wei Long or Jiang Chao then it's fine ..
I didn't know why I waste my time, hahaa ..
why the review should be at least 500 characters ? I have no more to say about this movie :D
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This movie is not recommended for sensitive/emotional, lonely, 3 or depressed ppl??
I cried at the end.…………..Because of the acting. The story was rushed but it was ok until it got closer to the ending… Although it was rushed I guess it’s to be expected since the it’s a movie( Personally it’s still short for one they should’ve made a drama ver cuz it felt like it IS the summary of a very touching drama ) It’s been so long since a movie made me feel so many emotions at once and this one definitely did and I was smiling the whole movie. The Jiang duo’s actor are one of my personal favs. Many will hate this movie for the ending they delivered but that’s life :-/. I would’ve cried even more if it was me before Covid. I gaped first since the first thing i thought was this is ridiculous! then didn’t kno whether to cover my eyes or mouth cuz I couldn’t look at Jaing Hai anymore nearing the end:-(((. the movie would’ve been much much better if it wasn’t rushed. It’s not a movie we’d like to watch but a story we’d like to kno.Esta resenha foi útil para você?
yos
ok the ending was literally crap cuz i felt like they were just trying to make it a sad ending brooo i literally waited for this show for so long just because of Wendy and to be honest im quite disappointed... it's just quite weird cuz the male lead was like 25 when they filmed in , the female lead was 15 and the second male lead was 17 ... idont know but they did look weird together ... like they are a secondary school kid , high school kid and adult acting as a university student ?let's just say that wendy deserves a 4 star acting cuz there's always room for improvement
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