My Best Summer

This movie is almost entirely a waste of time. It does have one redeeming quality though, for foreign audiences- gives us a lens into then culture kids grow up in, what pressures they face, and what they aspire to be and seem to care about, in China today. Being a nerd is cool. Winning physics competitions there is the equivalent of being a high school football star in the USA. Theirs is an effeminate, wholesome, romantic world. Diametrically opposed to ours (in the West) where crude obscenities have become our new normal. Yet it is also a distinctly self-centered and materialistic world, similar to ours in the West. Interesting.

While these movies are always "sunny" (a Chinese term), bright and delightful, at the same time they are so chaste and cliche as to seem like the CCP got a hold of them. The romantic couple never even HUGS for seven years!

In short, it's a movie that's safe to watch with your Chinese grandmother in the room-though she would probably roll her eyes because even she gave your grandfather a kiss within the first month of dating.

A more worthwhile movie in this genre, ironically, is the remake of More Than Blue (2018). It carries the theme of "I love you, but I will never ever tell you" to hilarious extreme, yet it's such a tear jerker that you can't laugh at how ridiculous it is. A fun time.

This is a good old Chinese high school love story, enjoy!, you'll like it if you have half a heart, yeah, yeah, yeah, just a cute love story, nothing bad about that.

I watched this show because I think Haha He is very good actress, but the show was everywhere. I felt the director removed scenes to keep it under 30 minutes an episode and really hurt the show in the end. Also they had to inject two other couples into the show and became a cluster show. The emotions from the characters felt like they didn't believe what they doing on this show. Since they created so many side stories it was the downfall of the main characters who never really were able to develop an emotional to the audience. The Chinese romances are pumped out like water now and so many to choose from. I have only run into a couple that I would call excellent shows with good character development. The Taiwanese and Korean shows are much better 95% of the time.

What I really liked about this movie is how fast it was able to put me to sleep. You'd imagine you're watching a movie so it has to have elements of entertainment, joy and fun but it's absolutely ResidentSleeper if you know what I mean.

DO NOT recommend.