Love Story in London (2021)

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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