If I'm Not Wu Lei (2019)

Brevissimo ma gradevole

Apprezzo Leo Wu sin dai tempi di Nirvana on Fire, passando per quella meraviglia che è The long ballad. Ovvio che qui non siamo sugli stessi livelli, è un microfilm, da cui traspare l'impegno e la gioia di vivere di Leo, che riesce a trasmettere sensazioni positive con la sua gestualità.
Il video è idealmente diviso in due parti, di cui la prima è più concitata è la seconda più rilassata anche grazie al sottofondo musicale, che a orecchio mi sembrava il valzer di Amelie. La frase finale, pur non essendo minimamente originale, è un inno a vivere e godersi la vita.
Sono due minuti, un tempo molto breve che si può investire guardando un piccolo video piacevole che dura meno di una canzone, ma che potrebbe lasciare un buon sapore in bocca per tutta la giornata.

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Three minutes travelogue for Wu Lei fans - not a drama

I had watched this before, but not noticed until now that it was included on MDL as if it was a full movie or drama.

It is not uncommon for actors to do travelogues or vlogs of their trips, even modeling abroad, videos that can be shot quite professionally, like the most recent fours short videos linked under the title "On The Road" that Chen Zheyuan shot in Dubai in mid April 2024. Such pieces are usually watched mainly on the original social media of their idols by fans of the actors or of the fashion they showcase in foreign settings, or discovered by the fandom explorers.

This video, If I'm Not Wu Lei, shot in Sri Lanka, dates back to the times when tourism boomed in Asia before covid. It comes with a message : "Don't Wait For Life, Live It". Wu Lei has lived it up to do road trip vlogs of his bike travels in the Xinjiang, and an introduction to the coastal city of Xiamen, as brand ambassador. If the latter featured well known highlights of the "must see" circuit, it also included experiences that felt more personal, like this little video , where Wu Lei watches the country fly by from the train window, or briefly encounters curious youngsters of a different culture, in a kaleidoscope of pictures that make those in front of the screen feel the rush and impermanence of traveling.

But traveling abroad can also be romantic, and this was incorporated later in his full drama Amidst a Snowstorm of Love, set for a good third in Helsinki, Finland, with a small trip, not unlike this Sri Lanka one, to Annecy in France, before the evening out stargazing on top of a mountain.

For the rookie fans of Wu Lei (in addition to trawling his Weibo pages and other social media), I recommend the pages of the blog and YouTube channel of " Wu Lei Galaxy ", which is very comprehensive and up to date.

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