An ancient love story with a touch of mythology

Sou Shen Ji, Barbarian Ji, Xian Chu.

What is the main story of the movie "The Myth of Love"? It mainly tells the love story of middle-aged people.

Not being a follower of film history (that is, not knowing who Fellini and Sophia Loren are basically does not affect the understanding), and not knowing Shanghainese basically does not affect the movie-going experience - you may miss a few puns slightly.

Even if you don't take into account the factor of Shanghainese, "The Myth of Love" has a Jin Yucheng-esque tone, which is reflected in the confrontation of dialogues between characters, typical of which is the three women fighting each other at the "women's conference" of Mr. Bai's family.

And the feelings of middle-aged people in the play may need some life experience to understand. If it is said that the breakup of young people will never be in contact as long as WeChat is blocked, after the divorce of couples with children, it is generally difficult to completely disconnect due to the existence of children, and when they want to develop a more serious relationship, they must also take into account various factors such as parents, children, and property. The reason why Mr. Bai always helps bring Maya in the film is mainly because he is considering whether he can be qualified for the role of stepfather if he can really marry Miss Li.

And Mr. Bai's mother immediately made the decision to transfer the property after learning that her son might remarry, and these seemingly "selfish" and "calculating" actions can only seem unobnoxious when they happen to these middle-aged people who have experienced many setbacks in their lives. Of course, the price to pay may be that the younger audience doesn't like it very much.

Dialect plays an extremely important role in this film, not only forming a holistic aesthetic style together with the old town of Shanghai throughout the film, but also showing a more subtle thing through the switch between Shanghainese and Mandarin: in fact, we who are native dialects may have experienced a seamless switch between standard language and dialect in our lives, so we might as well think about when we will switch to standard language?

In China, due to various reasons, there are fewer and fewer literary and artistic works in dialects (except for the dialects of the Sanbei region), and the famous "Let the Bullets Fly" southwest official version was not released outside of Sichuan, Chongqing and Yungui that year. I hope that "The Myth of Love" can be combined with the temporary addition of a Cantonese version of "Lion Boy" to show the richer and farthering culture of China.

Another point is the gender and sexuality that this film shows. Many people have mentioned Mr. Bai, Mr. Wu and several female characters each show a less stereotypical gender temperament (of course, this is related to the story set in Shanghai), and another interesting place is the white pigeon, the actor of the white pigeon is Huang Minghao, Huang Minghao, as a member of the idol boy group, has always been criticized for the lack of "masculinity", this film added him a mother's treasure, a makeup-loving character, and was used "He actually doesn't like girls" to escape the blind date, although this small plot is difficult to say "progressive", But considering the current environment, it can be said that it is more LGBT-friendly to be retained in the finished film.

It mainly tells the story of love and hatred of middle-aged characters, which is a good interpretation of the way young people break up and the existence of children after divorce in the future.

This movie mainly tells the story of two immortals who fall in love, but are relegated to the mortal world and meet each other again, I think it is very mysterious.

It mainly tells the story of a fairy who went down to earth to meet a mortal, but two people were loyal to their families, which was very pitiful.