It tells the story of a middle-aged woman Yu Ge and her colleague Lin Bu Mian, who is nine years younger than her. In order to cope with her relatives urging her to marry, Yu Ge asked Lin Bu Mian to pretend to be her boyfriend. They went home for the New Year to meet Yu Ge's parents and relatives. But their supposedly 3-day vacation became long-term when they were stranded because of the coronavirus epidemic. As the saying goes, "Age is just a number," Yu Ge and Lin Bu Mian eventually realized that they really have feelings for each other, and they convert their pretention into a beautiful love story. Edit Translation
- English
- magyar / magyar nyelv
- עברית / עִבְרִית
- dansk
- Native Title: 我要我们在一起
- Also Known As: I Want Us Together
- Genres: Romance
Reviews
Love in the time of Covid
I Want Us to Be Together was a sweet age gap romance starring Qin Lan and Fan Cheng Cheng. Cupid, in this instance, turned out to be Covid. When many people were figuring out they couldn’t live together anymore after quarantining in the early days of the novel virus, others found love.Yu Ge is going home for the New Year celebration to be with her parents and extended family. She says her parents are cool with her being single, but other relatives are more bothersome about it. Yu Ge auditions several men to play her boyfriend and ends up with Lin Bu Mian, a younger man who works at the same restaurant. Lin is nine years younger than her but beggars can’t be choosers. Her parents are overjoyed with the handsome young man and cannot contain their excitement. As the family prepares to travel to the gathering, they are told no one can leave. Everyone is going to learn a lot more about each other in the small apartment.
Qin Lan is a delightful actress who the very next year would have another age gap romance in the drama The Rational Life with Dylan Wang that was quite entertaining. In this short film the age gap was supposed to be nine years while in real life it was closer to twenty.
IWUtBT brought back memories of the early days of the pandemic. No one really knew how to deal with Covid or the best way to treat it or prevent it. Scary times with masks and quarantining. With all the fear and deaths the invisible enemy caused it was nice that something good came out of those dark times, even if it was a fictional romance.
19 November 2024
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