July and Ansheng: We can't exchange lives, but we are still each other's shadows.

The first moment I walked out of the cinema, I kept repeating a sentence in my mind:

I thought if you stepped on a person's shadow, that person would never go far.

This is the only movie that made me cry and moved me deeply. It is the best domestic youth film I have ever seen.

The English name of the movie is Soulmate. This is the relationship between July and Ansheng, two very different girls, like a family. The film says, "Sometimes July is the shadow of An Sheng, and sometimes An Sheng is the shadow of July."

At the beginning of the story, July is practical and gentle, like a clear spring, studying hard, working hard, and living a stable life envied by others step by step.

And Ansheng is rebellious and restless, like a raging waterfall. At the age of eighteen, I left the town, went wandering, mixed drinks in bars, took photos in the academy, worked as a cruise waiter, and went to all the places I had never tried.

The starting point of this teacher-oriented friendship is that I fell in love with a boy named Jia Ming in July.

As early as the three of them went to the cave to worship Buddha, they discovered the feelings quietly generated between Ansheng and Jiaming in July, but she knew in her heart that she was not as good as Ansheng in all aspects since childhood and would give Jiaming to herself.

Sure enough, An Sheng left. She said, "The town is too small, and she has been tired of it for a long time." In July, she cried and chased the train until she saw the Jiaming Bodhisattva necklace hanging around Ansheng's neck. She lost the power to keep Ansheng. When she wavered between herself and Ansheng, their friendship showed the first obvious crack.

An Sheng has been wandering, injured and wandering.

Fall in love, study and find a job in mid-July;

They insist on writing to each other, and every letter from An Sheng reads: Greetings to Jia Ming.

Like their way of life, the distance between them is getting farther and farther. Until they met again, the two finally clashed because of their different values.

In July, she asked Ansheng, "Don't you think it's cheap for you to live on such a man?"

In this sentence, I saw the unbearable and distressed dissatisfaction in July; Seeing the first interpretation of "hate" in July, she hated Ansheng for loving her family and having a dissolute life that she didn't have.

An Sheng asked July, "Haven't you and I thought about it in recent years?"

In this sentence, I saw an uneasy and painful problem; I hate July when I see An Sheng, and I hate having a stable family and a stable life in July.

These are the two closest people, like a knife to cut the skin, like a scourge of confrontation.

This time, their friendship was split in two.

I think it's because they love each other in different ways:

In July, I thought love should be pure, and I only love one person in my life.

An Sheng thinks that love should be crazy, and you can travel all over the world with the person you love, but there is no such thing as forever.

Jia Ming is attracted by two kinds of love; He likes the quiet and smart in July, and also likes An Sheng's unique bohemian.

But no one chose him in the end, because his love was incomplete after all, and he gave it to two people.

I didn't choose Jiaming in July. Although I saw Jiaming living with her to help Ansheng, she didn't give up the idea of marrying him. Although Jia Ming handed her the passbook, she shed tears when she made a promise.

But July, who is arrogant and stubborn in her bones, knows that Jiaming doesn't love her so much. The happiness she wants is 100% pure, and Jia Ming can't give it.

An Sheng didn't choose Jia Ming. Although what she really wants is a simple and stable life, she loves July more and doesn't want to lose it.

Finally, Jia Ming was asked to leave before getting married in July. She said that only when he left could she find true happiness.

Seeing this, my heart broke all over the floor.

In July, I finally left the town, left the dusty life and began to wander; It became another kind of peace.

Ansheng is ready to get married and wants to return to the life of daily necessities; It's another July.

The "exchange of life" they once joked about seems to be coming true soon.

The plot suddenly took a turn for the worse, and she came to Ansheng in July and was pregnant with Jiaming's child.

In the evening, July and Ansheng lie in bed thinking.

July said, "An Sheng, I found that I only have you."

An Sheng stretched out her arm as she did ten years ago. "Come into my thick arms."

At this time, there was a noise of smoking paper towels in the cinema.

I didn't believe that there would be eternal friendship between girls, but now I do.

This is a friendship that can be called "love", but no matter what happens, no matter how time passes, I will love you as always, because you are the only one for me.

Finally, she died of postpartum hemorrhage in July. An Sheng cried herself when she signed the death notice.

The novel that runs through the whole movie was originally written by An Sheng.

An Sheng used the pseudonym July. She wrote novels and realized her dream of learning Chinese in July. She lived a stable life in July, raised her children, and met Jia Ming again in July.

But Ansheng is still Ansheng, not July; She left in July, and only she knows that she will be the shadow of July all her life.

We can't exchange lives, but we are still each other's shadows.

Even when I grow up, I show a completely different edge and embark on a completely different path;

Even if you can't accompany me anymore, I will fantasize about your life in the text and become your shadow in reality.

Because Ansheng loves July, and July loves Ansheng.

Finally, An Sheng stepped into the shadow of July and started her own life.

Maybe we don't have the unforgettable friendship like An Sheng in July, but I have seen their treasure and persistence.

Love, difficulties, personality and values have not separated them. They are still the same, completely different, and their souls are unified.

If I had to imagine the best appearance of friendship, it would probably be July and Ansheng, knowing that they were estranged from each other, but never leaving.

Ps: from the heart: it's really a good movie worth seeing ~