Soon the movie started showing in the screening room of Green Cinema.
Li Yi's fame in Hollywood is definitely not comparable to his influence in China, but he can't be considered a nobody either.
The first scene that appeared on the big screen made many people's eyes shine. A young girl dressed simply but looking very beautiful was sitting on the grass by the roadside, with a sunny smile on her face.
The threads moved with the wind, as if something had attracted her attention.
I have to say that the doll-like child's smile is so heart-warming.
The camera switched and it turned out that it was a boy who attracted her attention.
But compared to the girl's sunny smile, the boy didn't seem very happy.
But what's interesting is that his gaze also stayed on the little girl, and that squinting eye was the finishing touch, completely revealing that he was also looking at the girl.
The voice-over is the boy's narration voice.
"I just begged Julie Baker not to bother me. Everything started before the second grade of elementary school... From then on, a five-year battle of social fear and avoidance officially began!"
The boy's name is Bryce, and he and his family just moved here.
Julie enthusiastically wanted to help move things, but was refused.
"We quickly discovered that the girl didn't take cues..."
Apparently neither the boy nor his father liked this "weird kid" who suddenly appeared and was too proactive. The two expressed their thoughts to each other with winks.
"Nothing could stop her and I was just about to tell her to leave when the strangest thing happened!"
The boy was running in front, and the girl was chasing behind. Suddenly the girl grabbed the boy, and the boy turned around and looked at the girl with a bewildered face.
"I actually held this strange girl's hand..."
A short close-up of the two people looking at each other makes the viewer instantly fall in love with this elf-like little girl.
At this time, the boy Bryce's mother appeared. She was much more enthusiastic than the boy's father.
"I ended up doing the only thing a seven-year-old can do to act like a man!"
He broke away from the girl's hand, ran to his mother's side and hid behind her.
"Hahaha!" The audience in the theater couldn't help but laugh. Sure enough, this is what a man would do!
In fact, there is nothing too strange about this plot. If anything, it is about this elf-like girl. Her actions make people feel that they are not consistent with her cute appearance.
Obviously, the little girl fell in love with this new neighbor boy at first sight. Otherwise, she would not be in the classroom, shouting "Bryce" crazily and loudly, and then step forward to hug him excitedly.
It's a pity that she didn't know that from the boy's perspective, how could there be such ignorant people in this world?
Julie's proactive and bold actions made Bryce and Julie become a natural couple in the eyes of their elementary school students.
They would make fun of her and him from time to time. This made Bryce even more confused and bored.
In this way, five years of events passed by in a hurry, and Bryce finally took action in the sixth grade.
He deliberately pursued a girl and showed "affection" (holding hands) in front of Julie.
This plot is actually not surprising at all. To put it simply, in order to get rid of the entanglement of the girl he doesn't like, the boy starts to find other girls in the hope of making Julie give up.
It's just a pity that he was stabbed in the back by a good friend in the end, and his success failed!
To an adult, this may seem like childish behavior, but it is inexplicably amusing.
The camera turned and began to shift to the perspective of the little girl Julie.
"The first day I saw Bryce, my heart skipped a beat. His bright eyes. Their family had just moved nearby. I went over to help them. Two minutes after I got into the truck, his father asked him to help.
Mom, I can see that he doesn’t want to go!”
Hearing the girl's imaginary narration, laughter erupted in the theater.
"So I chased him and played in front of the house where he was trapped. The next thing I knew, he held my hand... and stared into my eyes. My heartbeat almost stopped. What is this?
Was it love at first sight? Then his mother came out..."
The little girl's narration is hilarious, and the things shown from different perspectives are completely opposite.
Of course, the little girl’s own imagination is also very entertaining.
"He was so embarrassed that his cheeks turned red!"
"That night, I was lying in bed and thinking, that might be the feeling of pounding my heart. He obviously likes me, but he is too shy to show it!"
This beautiful misunderstanding makes people find it interesting and dumbfounding.
"My mother said all boys are like this..."
In fact, this is also the case here in the United States. At least at this moment, no one thinks there is anything strange about this.
No one thinks there is anything strange about this!
Of course, in China, the expressions may be different, but some things reach the same goal through different routes.
But I definitely wouldn’t say it so boldly.
But let me ask, when we were young and children, did each of us like to play with a certain child?
Or have you ever ignorantly said that you want to marry her (him) when you grow up?
"So I decided to help him (Bryce) out, I would give him a bunch of opportunities to overcome his shyness, and by sixth grade, I had learned to control myself, and Shirley stepped in...
"
The different perspectives, inner thoughts, and narrations of the hero and heroine are all so completely different.
Many people have had this experience, haven't they?
The camera switched again and returned to the boy's perspective.
"Seventh grade did bring about changes, but the biggest change happened not at school, but at home. Grandpa moved in with us!"
The old man with gray hair always sits there and stares out the window.
"Mom said he stared like that because he missed grandma. Grandpa would never talk to me about that. In fact, he rarely talked to me about anything."
The boy who has grown up has become more handsome.
"Until Julie shows up in the local paper!"
Grandpa suddenly shouted: "Bryce, let's talk."
"Tell me about your friend Julie Baker." Grandpa suddenly smiled.
"Julie? Actually, she's not my friend!" Bryce obviously felt a little uncomfortable when he mentioned Julie.
"Why?" Grandpa was curious.
"Why do you want to know about her?" Bryce was more curious.
The reason was naturally because Julie was in the newspaper. In the newspaper, Julie was sitting on a sycamore tree. The reason she was in the newspaper was because she refused to climb down from the sycamore tree.
But in Bryce's eyes, Julie is a weirdo. In his opinion, she was in the newspaper entirely because she refused to climb down the sycamore tree. He thought it was a stupid sycamore tree. She always thought it was a gift from God.
A gift to our corner of the universe.
She always said you could see everything from up there!
The boy and the girl, the girl has been taking the initiative to find ways to get close to him, but the boy has been avoiding him.
At the same time, Bryce's father also didn't like Julie's home because he thought it was ugly.
Perhaps Bryce had no idea about the so-called teaching by words and deeds, but because he often heard his father complaining about Julie's father and her family's ugliness and homelessness, he came to think so.
Julie likes to climb up the sycamore tree to see how long it will take for the school bus to arrive here, but Bryce hates it because he thinks it is very old-fashioned and inferior!
On this day, the tree was cut down due to construction, and she defended it to the death!
Julie climbed on the sycamore tree and refused to come down.
Although Bryce said that Julie was not his friend, he still ran over immediately.
Hope he fights side by side: "If we are all up there, they won't chop down the trees!"
But he backed down.
The camera panned back to the conversation between Bryce and his grandfather.
This paragraph made the audience a little surprised. It turned out that Julie was in the newspaper because she could not use the tree to fight in order to protect the sycamore tree from being cut down.
"Why don't you think she's your friend?" Grandpa obviously has a crush on Julie.
"You know Julie!" Bryce said.
"I really want to get to know her!" Grandpa said with a smile.
"What?" Bryce felt strange.
"That girl is very brave. You can invite her over as a guest some other time!" Grandpa said with a smile.
"Have some backbone?"
"Yes!"
"She is stubborn, incredibly stubborn! She started pestering me in the second grade!" Bryce couldn't understand his grandfather's views.
Grandpa smiled and said: "Not everyone's neighbor has a girl like that,"
He handed the newspaper to Bryce: "Look at this, look at it without prejudice!"
"Why do I need to know more about Julie..." Bryce took the newspaper and threw it away casually without reading much at all.
The scene switches to the next day, Julie does not appear at the school bus station, and the sycamore tree has been cut down.
Seeing this, many viewers actually have their own preferences. Even if the male protagonist is very handsome, many people still feel that he is not worthy of the heroine.
Julie didn't show up at the school bus stop for several days, but she arrived in the school classroom very early every day.
But she looked clearly unhappy.
Although Bryce felt that this was what he wanted, didn't he? She no longer bothered him, but when he saw that Julie, who had always been so cheerful and cheerful, suddenly became so silent, he still felt a little sad for her.
"I wanted to say sorry to her, but then I thought, no, that's the last thing I need to do! Julie thought I would miss her..."
Lens flip.
Here we are at Julie's perspective again.
Julie's father is a painter.
"I love to watch my dad paint, or I love to listen to him talking while painting, so I understand my dad better. He told me many things. How he found his first job, and how he hoped to finish college and then have a job.
One day, he startled me!"
"What's going on between you and Bryce?" Julie's father suddenly asked.
"What do you mean? No!" Julie looked a little confused.
"That's good, I made a mistake!" Julie's father shrugged.
"Why do you think that?"
"No reason! It's just that you keep talking about him!"
"Yeah?"
"I have no idea!"
"I think it's probably because of his eyes, maybe it's his smile..." Julie said.
"What about others?" Julie's father asked.
"What?" Julie was a little confused.
"You need to see the whole picture!" Julie's father said.
"What do you mean?" Julie asked confused.
"A painting is just the sum of its parts. The cow itself is just a cow, the meadow itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun shining through the forest is just a ray of light, but if you put them together, miracles happen!"
Julie's father said while drawing.
The audience in the theater had a very strange feeling at this moment, or some of them thought of someone, or envied Julie and Bryce in the film.
Because when they were growing up, Bryce had his grandfather, and Julie had her father!
"I didn't quite understand what he was talking about, until one afternoon! I was on a plane tree, and I wanted to save a kite. It fell very high. I had never climbed that high before. I climbed higher and higher.
The scenery became more and more amazing to me. I found that the breeze was so fragrant, like sunshine mixed with the fragrance of wild grass. I couldn't help but take a deep breath, filling my lungs with the sweetest breath I have ever experienced!" Julie crawled.
When she reached the height of the sycamore tree, she felt as if she had discovered a new world.
She was excited to share her discovery with Bryce.
"Bryce, you should come up and take a look, it's so beautiful here!"
But Bryce made an excuse and said: "No, I have a sprain..."
This also explains why Julie likes to climb plane trees and climb to high places.
She could sit there for hours, looking out at the world and admiring the scenery of different times.
"Sometimes the sunset is purple-pink, and sometimes it is orange-red, burning the clouds on the horizon. One day while watching the sunset, I seemed to understand what my father said."
She would climb up to watch the sunrise, but that day, the construction team came and they wanted to cut down the sycamore tree.
She was so helpless that she asked Bryce to help her defend the tree, but Bryce backed down.
People from the town came and even called her father.
She prayed like her father, she said, "You can see the whole world from here!"
But the father said: "No matter how beautiful the scenery is, it is not worth risking my daughter's life..."
She is helpless and sad!
But she still listened to her father and climbed down from the tree.
The tree was cut down.
This scene made everyone feel inexplicably sad.
Sometimes, the child doesn't understand that much, she just thinks it is so beautiful there, and she doesn't understand why adults want to destroy those beautiful things.
She was sad for a long time. She chose to ride a bike to school because that way she would not have to pass by the sycamore trees. She did not want to see the bare sycamore trees that had been cut down.
But she still can't let go!
Dad came in and he brought a painting!
She covered it up and said: "It's just a tree!"
But her father understood her: "No, that's more than just a tree!"
Dad drew a picture of the sycamore tree and gave it to Julie.
"I never want you to forget what it felt like to climb that tree!"
This scene made everyone extremely envious of her for having such a considerate father.
