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In any case, this should be the most unique Chinese-language theater film in the summer.

Whether it is the various previews, test screenings, and advance screenings that have lasted for several days, or the various praises on social media, everyone is full of expectations for this film. Including on Douban, it still maintains a score of 7.6, which is also a good score.

Although, as mentioned before, due to being too niche, the film has never been able to convert the popularity of the preview into box office, and its box office performance to date has still not exceeded 100 million.

However, this is still a very rare movie in the summer.

That is "Safe Exit from the 21st Century"

I see that Douban has received nearly 100,000 ratings, so many of my friends must have seen it.

Li Yang is also a very unique director. He is the kind of middle-aged man who still has a playful heart even though he is already middle-aged.

Even more than a decade later, he still maintains the impulse he had when he made "The Adventures of Li Xianji".

"Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century" is also the kind of movie that is difficult to summarize. Of course, if you are a movie fan who watches a lot of movies, you will not be surprised by the style of the film.

Simply put, this is one of those movies that is very playful.

In fact, there were quite a lot of such movies in the past few years, especially a group of advertising directors (or MV directors) who switched to film creation, all of whom have produced similar works.

There are especially many films of this style in Japan, such as "The Wife Killer" and "First Contact in the Nonsense Forest".

The Nonsense Forest

Probably those movies that completely ignore all the rules and have fun as much as they want. But in fact, in recent years, or with the rise of short video media, everyone is also keen on fooling around in short videos, while traditional movies have returned to being formal and serious.

So, movies like this are really rare.

So, it's quite rare to see a film like "Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century" nowadays. It's very rare.

From the perspective of perception,This is a very new movie, but also a very old movie.

The new part is mainly in the form. Li Yang is best at making the whole film as fancy as possible. He really tried hard in the form. The mixture of multiple media and the arbitrary setting make this film try hard to present a so-called youthful feeling of young people.

Especially now the trend of the world film industry is relatively stable, and there are very few of those particularly exciting films I mentioned before, so this film at least has a novelty.

Or, in other words, try to make yourself look new and unique.

But in fact, this is another very old movie.

There may be a particularly unavoidable situation here, that is, no matter how hard the work itself tries to make you feel that it is new, because the creator is middle-aged after all, his thinking, interests and experiences always have his own inertia. No matter what the ideas are, you cannot jump out of his world.

As a middle-aged person, I can understand this helplessness.

Look at this:

On the surface, "Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century" is a movie about young people, and its style is very fancy, with all kinds of tricks and gimmicks.

But if you focus on the core of the plot, the emotions, and the themes it wants to express, they are actually very old.

To put it simply, this is another movie about springtime made by a middle-aged director, or a nostalgic youth film.

The core of the story is actually about people who, after reaching middle age, still refuse to forget their youth and want to return to their youth. In their memories, they madly add filters and halos to their youth.

Therefore, youth under the filter is particularly beautiful and happy, and is the most perfect stage of life, while adulthood is filled with all kinds of pain, betrayal, and forgetfulness...

The bottom line is, I really miss the good old days of my youth, even though we can never go back.

In fact, every youth film created by middle-aged directors back then had a similar theme, all about how good youth is and how bad the adult world is.

It’s just that this is wrapped in a particularly fancy form, so it may not be so obvious, but the core is actually unchanged.

This is still a middle-aged love movie in which middle-aged people miss their youth, friendship and first love.

This also makes the film lack the true youthful spirit, which is actually quite regrettable.

But real youth movies are actually about squandering, fooling around, and doing whatever one wants. On the contrary, they don't want to be nostalgic, and they never linger, and they always move forward.

But this is just a different perspective at different stages of life, and there is no way to agree on it.

Another particularly old thing is that this is still a particularly chubby and straight male movie. No matter how new the form looks, the core characteristics of the film are still that kind of super chubby and straight male temperament.

Including themes like the fallen female classmates and the rescue of the first love girl by several boys. If you put it many years ago, it may be due to the limitations of the times.

But at the moment, this movie, which is said to be very new and young, still has such a core, which makes it difficult to associate it with newness.

This is probably the most regrettable part of the film. Even though it looks very new, it is still very old at heart.

In the end, it's a very strange, very twisted feeling of being both new and old.

Or maybe this is also the reason why the film’s box office was never able to make a bigger breakthrough and was ultimately stuck.

It's a pity.

Of course, friends who like this kind of movie can still watch it.

After all, this is a very unique Chinese-language theater film this summer.