This is short movie.(about 18minutes)
Actors are cool and handsome guys!
I like them!
Encounter is Two guys met Chinese restaurant. Jin Hsuang gives coke to Huang Lin.
Maybe, Jin Hsuang and Huang Lin are University student.
They fallin' love in each other, but Jin Hsuang can't accept "I'm GAY".
So Jin Hsuang can't confess to Hsuang Lin.
And one more person, Unknown name girl is Jin Hsuang's school junior, and she fallin' love in him.(I thought she likes stoker????)
That girl is important person for this movie's ending.
I think that ending was happy.
Result, Jin Hsuang has a new GF, Huang Lin has a new BF!
Becuz I especially like Huang Lin. so I think Huang Lin find a new BF, I was very happy.
But Jin Huang and Huang Lin can't become lovers. this is sad ending.
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The plot was near to reality. I like the story. I just don't like the ending :-). The romance between them was so cute and I'm so into it.
CASTS/ACTING SKILLS:
The actors were good. There's a chemistry between them. Though it was a short film they were able to have justice to it. Their acting skill were quite mediocre for me.
MUSIC:
This is what makes me love this film the most. That is why I gave it a 10. I really appreciate films who uses an English song for a background. That scene where they are playing the guitar was so surreal because of I was able to understand the scene better. Charr... I love the instrumental background also. :-)
Overall it was a nice short film so you must watch it guys. I just don't really like the ending. I want them to have a better future.. :-(...
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It speaks to us about all the closets we create throughout our lives
A film transcends its entertainment dimension to become true art when, beyond its narrative anecdote, it reaches a universal magnitude, beyond the particular story it tells.In 'At First Glance To See It With,' Chinese writer and director Wong Chun Wai embraces the essential through the intimate, which is why hi film connect with audiences so profoundly. This 2017 short film is much more than just another queer coming-of-age story.
The protagonist of this film is Gu Jinxuan, an athlete and instrumentalist who lives a stereotypical life denying his sexuality.
One day, Gu meets Huang Lin, a music lover and fellow university student, and they establish a connection. This moment ignites a spark within him that grows, and which has the power to open a door to achieving the emotional and physical satisfaction he longed for. However, Gu is unwilling to leave the closet and admit that he is actually gay.
In this short film, also known as "As Cheerful as Ever", from the first moment we see Yang Qinkai in this repressed, sad, and painful role, it's unimaginable that another actor could have done a better job.
Despite being a low-budget student production, Wong Chun Wai, in addition to writing the script and making a valid personal statement, is a master at directing actors. Equally exceptional are Luo Panpan as Huang Lin and Hao Ningbo as Ye Yuhan, a girl unfortunate enough to fall in love with a gay man who refuses to acknowledge his sexual orientation or gender identity.
The ending is very sad: three years after breaking up, Gu Jinxuan and Huang Lin reunite on the streets of the city. And even though it is perceived that love still floats in the air between the two, the first one goes hand in hand with Ye Yuan, with whom he lives a lie, and the second one, despite having a boyfriend, he eyes and gestures denote the desire to hug and kiss he first love, the boy he has not yet forgotten.
Woody Allen said that his most faithful companion had been his fear, because she had never cheated on him and left him with another man. 'At First Glance To See It With' speaks to us of all those closets we create throughout our lives, of the impossibility of opening the closet doors and embracing our gender identity in the face of the fear or risk of being discriminated against, harassed, even of losing our lives, by dint of not living it, if we continue to think that the worst is on the other side. Without realizing that the enemy is very comfortably installed within us, which is ourselves.
The signs are there from the beginning, the clearest of them being Gu's need to pretend to his heteronormative and conservative sister that he has a girlfriend, and to deny being gay.
Ultimately, the film is not exactly original, but it is interesting as a critique of those who put fear and silence before their own happiness. The execution is quite good: the camerawork, all the technical parameters, the acting...
Also starring Huang Zhenwei, Guo Xubo, Wang Qi, and Ding Junyan.
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