Wednesday, November 23, 2011
#LikeAKobe,Emo^| 11:54 PM;
Originally named in chinese, "那些年，我们一起追的女孩“, or better known as "You are the Apple of my Eye", is a movie based on a true story experienced by the pretty well-known director Giddens, 九把刀.
It is a movie about a bunch of teenagers who stood pretty closely together during their teenage years in their secondary years. Unlike us Singaporeans, it was a pretty long span of time together, six years it were. Together, they experienced weals and woes, played and studies together. All seven of them all, liked the honor student, Shen Jia-Yee and went on to try to catch her eye with different ways. However, the true relationship began when Chin-Tung and Jia-Yee underwent a bet which allowed them to study together while striving to the better of each, with whoever failing having to do the bidding of the other person. As time went by, Chin-Tung and Jia-Yee fell in deep love with each other. However, it was time for them to part and go their separate ways after graduating from secondary school. Nonetheless, distance did not pose a problem to the lovebirds, who went on a date that following Christmas in Taipei. Sadly, the trauma came when Chin-Tung organized a fighting bout in his college as an attempt to show off his mightiness to Jia-Yee. However, it went awry; Jia-Yee was saddened by Chin-Tung's immaturity and quarreled with him after the bout, which resulted in the two of them breaking up, and also losing contact with each other in the process. Two years later, Chin-Tung called Jia-Yee to inquire about her welfare after an earthquake hit Taiwan, with the epicenter located in Taipei, where Jia-Yee is residing at in her University of Education. The two reminisced about their past that very night, and had a long and loving talk the whole night. Not long after, each and every one of the clique went off to their own careers, paving the road to their future, while Chin-Tung picks up writing as a hobby in his university. Years later, in 2004, Chia-Yi calls Ching-Teng to tell him that she is getting married. All of her old friends gather at the wedding, joking about trying to embarrass the groom. Nevertheless, they are finally surprised that their past emotions have transformed into a profound friendship and ever calmness in their hearts. Ching-Teng also starts to write a web novel about his experiences with Chia-Yi..
As quoted from the movie, "当你真的真的喜欢一个人的时候。。是根本不可能真心的祝福她新婚快乐的。。”
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““但是，最后，当我看到她的时候，我错了。当你真的真的喜欢一个人的时候，当她被人爱，被人疼，你都会为她感到快乐，感到开心的。”
This movie is so.. so very very touching. It took me a lot of self-control to stop myself from breaking down halfway throughout the movie, when Chin-Tung missed out on Jia-Yee in the end, and lost her.. forever. Happy times are just too short. I really pity Chin-Tung, it must feel so sad to see the one you really love a lot, leaving you and going for another person. If I were Chin-Tung, I would really really be so.. heartbroken. I nearly cried, seriously. All the three times I watched it, it has never yet failed to make me emotional. How great would it be, if both of them ended up together.
My personal love life is just like Chin-Tung, only that.. it wasn't that dramatic. But yet nevertheless, I lost my first true love, L***, not to anybody, but to myself. I lost her after a short span of four days. Maybe it's just like how the Jia-Yee said in the movie, relationships lose their magic when it starts, but not when it is just a crush. Still, I miss her a lot. Watching this movie is only another way for me to express my longing for her. I can't say it out, but I really really miss her a lot. If only, she can come back to me.. It was just like how Chin-Tung felt in the movie when Jia-Yee broke up with him, the feeling when nothing could cheer him up, when he was reduced to nothing, when his teenage childhood was utterly meaningless out of a sudden, when life seemed so bleak and dark. This is why I absolutely adore Chin-Tung for being so courageous and brave, to withstand all of it and bottle it up.. something which I can never, ever, accomplish.. Maybe I don't love her as much as he did to Jia-Yee, but I do know, I really miss her..