880-01 Zhi wo men zhong jiang shi qu de qing chun (Motion picture)
Title:
880-02 Zhi wo men zhong jiang shi qu de qing chun = So young / Hua shi ying shi tou zi (Beijing) you xian gong si, Zhongguo dian ying gu fen you xian gong si lian he chu pin ; chu pin ren, Han Sanping, Zhang Jun.
Publisher:
Hua lu chu ban chuan mei you xian gong si,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
1 videodisc (130 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
880-09 Zhao Youting, Han Geng, Yang Zishan, Liu Yase, Jiang Shuying. 880-06 This disc may not play in standard North American DVD players. 880-10 Based on the novel by Xin Yiwu. Originally released as a motion picture in 2013.
Summary:
880-11 Set on a university campus in 1990s China, So Young traces the (mis)adventures of college freshman Zheng Wei and her roommates as they navigate the bumpy terrain of boys, books, and booze. The film begins with Zheng Wei heartbroken that her childhood crush, Lin Jing, has left for America without informing her. While visiting another friend in his dorm, she gets into a heated argument with an architecture major Chen Xiaozheng when she touches his building model. The two become sworn enemies, until Zheng Wei realizes that she's in love him. She begins to stalk him around campus. She engages in behavior that, under normal circumstances, would lead to a restraining order. Although Chen is coerced into being Zheng Wei's boyfriend, he eventually falls in love with her too. The happy couple visits an aquarium together and Chen whispers something to the dolphin trainer. Yet soon she learns that Chen is leaving for America to study. The movie fast-forwards seven years later from this point. During this brief time lapse, the viewers see drastic changes in the Chinese landscape. The grimy setting of college dorms littered with beer cans is replaced by skyscrapers, flashy cars, and ostentatious banquet halls. But laughter is also replaced by solemnity. Chen leaves behind his American ex-wife and mixed daughter and returns to China, hoping to rekindle his love with Zheng Wei. The film ends with a flashback to that day in the aquarium. We find out that Chen had told the dolphin trainer that he was going to propose to his girlfriend, but had no money to buy an engagement ring. The film ends with a feeling of what could have been rather than what life actually turned out to be.--mic.com
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