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Yesterday I watched the Chinese movie Upcoming Summer with Wu Lei and Zhang Zifeng. It’s on Netflix here. It’s an endearing, enjoyable and a bit melancholy coming-of-age movie about the developing bond between two 18 years old students who failed their college entrance exams and because of that have to repeat their last year of school.
Chen Chen is a serious, a bit socially awkward girl who’s having a hard time dealing with her family problems. Zheng Yuxing is a free-spirited, honest, adorable and kind boy obsessed with the electronic music and dreaming of becoming a famous DJ.
I liked it a lot, it’s very well written and the actors are great. But I plan a rewatch soon, because I wish I knew about one spoiler before watching it. It flew completely over my head, I only realized it after reading this review on thefangirlverdict.com. Now I want to watch it again knowing about that spoiler. I mean, it’s a good movie even if you’ll never realize a twist about Wu Lei’s character Zheng Yuxing, and in the end it doesn’t really matter all that much to the general meaning of the movie, but still it gives a bit more depth to a few scenes from the movie and explains a bit more about the relationship between Zheng Yuxing and his father.
So during the whole movie Zheng Yuxing is very in love and pining desperately after well know DJ Ming, who rejected his feelings. There are hints through the movie that Ming is a man, and not a woman, which I never noticed before reading the review. As it is mentioned in the review I linked to – in Chinese the word for ‘he’ and ‘she’ are homonyms, and unfortunately Netflix English subs use the word ‘she’ when Zheng Yuxing is talking about Ming. And we never hear Ming’s voice or see Ming’s face, even on a picture. So I didn’t pick up on the fact that Ming is a guy and Zheng Yuxing is gay and that this is probably a big reason behind the tense relationship between him and his father.
I only watched this movie because I recognized Wu Lei (whom I adored in Nothing But You) on the movie’s thumbnail image when I was browsing Chinese dramas available on Netflix. But I’m glad I did, because I liked it. And I really recommend it.
Chen Chen is a serious, a bit socially awkward girl who’s having a hard time dealing with her family problems. Zheng Yuxing is a free-spirited, honest, adorable and kind boy obsessed with the electronic music and dreaming of becoming a famous DJ.
I liked it a lot, it’s very well written and the actors are great. But I plan a rewatch soon, because I wish I knew about one spoiler before watching it. It flew completely over my head, I only realized it after reading this review on thefangirlverdict.com. Now I want to watch it again knowing about that spoiler. I mean, it’s a good movie even if you’ll never realize a twist about Wu Lei’s character Zheng Yuxing, and in the end it doesn’t really matter all that much to the general meaning of the movie, but still it gives a bit more depth to a few scenes from the movie and explains a bit more about the relationship between Zheng Yuxing and his father.
More here with a spoiler I mention above.
So during the whole movie Zheng Yuxing is very in love and pining desperately after well know DJ Ming, who rejected his feelings. There are hints through the movie that Ming is a man, and not a woman, which I never noticed before reading the review. As it is mentioned in the review I linked to – in Chinese the word for ‘he’ and ‘she’ are homonyms, and unfortunately Netflix English subs use the word ‘she’ when Zheng Yuxing is talking about Ming. And we never hear Ming’s voice or see Ming’s face, even on a picture. So I didn’t pick up on the fact that Ming is a guy and Zheng Yuxing is gay and that this is probably a big reason behind the tense relationship between him and his father.
I only watched this movie because I recognized Wu Lei (whom I adored in Nothing But You) on the movie’s thumbnail image when I was browsing Chinese dramas available on Netflix. But I’m glad I did, because I liked it. And I really recommend it.
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