趙薇導(dǎo)演首秀：成也“青春”，敗也“青春”
The reason I wanted to see So Young is that it’s Zhao Wei’s directorial debut. I guess I didn’t expect much else.
我想要去看《致我們終將逝去的青春》的原因是：該片是趙薇的導(dǎo)演處女作。對(duì)于影片本身我并未抱太大的期望值。
Is it a mature first project for the actress? Definitely. Is it a good film in general? Not in my opinion.
對(duì)于演而優(yōu)則導(dǎo)的趙薇來說，這是她獻(xiàn)上的完美首秀嗎?答案當(dāng)然是肯定的。但這是一部出色的影片嗎?在我看來并非如此。
So Young has everything a popular youth film should have: Beautiful young actors, a story about colorful campus life and intricateromance, and a strong sense of nostalgia.
《致我們終將逝去的青春》擁有一切青春題材的流行電影應(yīng)該具備的元素：養(yǎng)眼的俊男靚女;豐富多彩的校園生活;錯(cuò)綜復(fù)雜的感情;強(qiáng)烈的懷舊色彩。
The leading female character Zheng Wei (Yang Zishan) enrolls at university to stay close to her childhood sweetheart Lin Jing (Han Geng). But when Lin moves abroad to pursue his education, life loses its luster for Zheng. Until she meets the dashing yet aloof Chen Xiaozheng (Mark Chao).
女主人公鄭微(楊子珊飾)考上大學(xué)，為的是和自己青梅竹馬的戀人林靜(韓庚飾)在一起。但在林靜出國留學(xué)后，鄭微的生活失去了目標(biāo)，直到她遇見帥氣而冷漠的陳孝正(趙又廷飾演)。
The film also features a bunch of vivid supporting characters: The campus queen who falls for a worthless wretch, the rich kid who is rejected by his dream girl, and Zheng’s boyish roommate with a huge ego.
該片同時(shí)也塑造了許多鮮活的配角：愛上窩囊廢的?；ā⒈粔?mèng)中情人拒絕的富二代、自尊心極強(qiáng)的假小子室友。
Together they put on quite a show under Zhao’s direction and her smooth and aesthetic camera work. You’ll find yourself laughing over their trivial yet funny life on campus in the early 1990s.
在趙薇的執(zhí)導(dǎo)下，在一系列流暢且富有美感的影像中，該片的確表現(xiàn)不俗。上世紀(jì)90年代初，那些細(xì)微而有趣的校園生活令人莞爾。
As expected, the film’s second half takes the audience to years later when the characters have moved on into different corners of society. But the film unexpectedly breaks with the comedic vibe and turns into a serious discussion about the meaning of life and love.
不出所料，影片后半段將觀眾帶到了數(shù)年后，此時(shí)片中人物都已步入社會(huì)，天各一方。但影片卻出乎意料地打破喜劇氛圍，轉(zhuǎn)入對(duì)生活意義與愛情真諦的嚴(yán)肅探討。
Through the events in their current life and flashbacks of their college years, the film portrays how life has changed these characters. And that’s where the film goes awry.
通過展現(xiàn)片中人物當(dāng)下的生活狀態(tài)和一組追憶大學(xué)生活的閃回鏡頭，影片描繪出生活是如何改變他們的。而這正是全片失誤的所在。
The emotional transition of the characters seems overhasty. If you watch the 2011 youth film You’re the Apple of My Eye, you’ll find that the film’s resonance with the audience accumulates from the beginning ― through details like sexual fantasies and crushes in puberty ― and peaks in the end. In So Young, the sudden emotional touch with endless rhetorical lines just isn’t enough to strike a chord.
人物角色的情感過渡有點(diǎn)操之過急。如果你看過2011年上映的青春片《那些年，我們一起追的女孩》，那么你就會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)，那部影片從開頭對(duì)于性幻想以及青春期情竇初開等細(xì)節(jié)的描寫、再到結(jié)局時(shí)的高潮，都能讓觀眾始終產(chǎn)生共鳴。在《致我們終將逝去的青春》中，這種伴隨著一連串的華麗臺(tái)詞而突然爆發(fā)的情感并不足以觸動(dòng)觀眾的心弦。
Zhao also clearly wanted to give every character a proper ending. But unfortunately she tried a bit too hard, making the film’s second half feel lengthy and unedited.
趙薇顯然也想賦予每個(gè)角色一個(gè)恰當(dāng)?shù)臍w宿。但可惜她有點(diǎn)著力過猛，這使得電影的后半段讓人感覺冗長雜亂。
Even so, given my reasonably low expectations, Zhao still gets full credits for her effort as a first-time director. Without her insightful input and observations, I think the film would have been worse.
即便如此，鑒于我對(duì)該片理性的低期望值，我還是認(rèn)為趙薇對(duì)于自己的導(dǎo)演處女作交上了一份令人滿意的答卷。如果沒有她那富有洞察力的全心身投入以及觀察，我認(rèn)為該片會(huì)更爛。
Just as time wrinkles the skin but enriches the soul, a mediocre film may as well be the best motivation for Zhao to make better ones in the future.
就如同時(shí)間會(huì)令皮膚蒼老卻令靈魂充實(shí)一般，一部平庸之作也會(huì)成為鞭策趙薇在今后制作出佳作的動(dòng)力。
