Production and distribution of City in Love

The film is shot in five cities with different cultural atmospheres: Prague, Shanghai, Paris, Hokkaido, and Florence. Five pairs of male and female protagonists search for love, encounter love, gain love, and relive love all over the world. The love story perfectly explains "falling in love with a person, falling in love with a city". . (People's Daily Online Entertainment Review)

The marketing of the film is also aimed at this relatively popular perception. The poster slogan is "Fall in love with a person, fall in love with a city", making the beauty of the city and the warmth of love mutually intertwined. set off. The film not only avoids becoming a tourism promotional film, but also avoids overestimating the beauty with beautiful scenery; instead, it focuses more on the side behind the bustling city, highlighting the helplessness, exile, loneliness and confusion of young individuals in their emotions and lives. There is no touching innocence to be worshiped in the film, and no relaxation and joy to be enjoyed. Love is a bitter medicine that saves the soul.

In the five short stories in the film, at least one of the protagonists had a problem in his life. Later, he changed because of a relationship, and his life stopped falling. Even the little boy played by Zheng Kaiyuan The gangster also has a reason to move up. The film revolves around love, but it is not limited to love, but has an open off-screen space.

The film is led by ten popular stars including Yang Mi and Bai Baihe. The lineup is relatively commercial, but the content and narrative are literary and artistic, unlike the commercial short films like "Beijing Love Story". However, due to factors such as the length of the film, the literary and artistic strength is not strong. More films does not mean greater power. Fortunately, the film took advantage of factors such as its schedule, love combination, and cast to achieve box office results that previous literary short films failed to achieve. It can be regarded as a successful commercial icebreaker. (Red Internet Review) The film also has many problems, and the ending is very superfluous. The new creators tried to tie the five love stories into a whole through the relationship between the characters, but the result was very blunt and became the biggest failure. The Prague story uses a shaky narrative style of hand-held photography, and the Shanghai story uses a lot of cramped close-ups. These are the director's personal choices, but they may not be suitable choices in terms of content. (Red Internet Review)

In the end, the film was the same as most domestic films, which was slightly disappointing. Although the content of the five stories is different, the temperament is too similar. It is actually quite tiring for the audience to watch five stories with similar sentiments in a row.

Although several stories are separate chapters, they are eventually strung together, making "City in Love" look more like a whole movie. The quality of the five short films is not easy, but with the blessing of some popular love-related things, the films are not too ugly to watch. Although the presentation of the confusion, loneliness, determination and other psychological states encountered by these young people in love may not be very in-depth due to the length of the film, it is still able to capture the emotions of young people at a certain point. In reality, there are more opportunities to trigger reactions from the audience.

The biggest problem with the film is that these young directors failed to present these exotic cities well. Many times they turned into foreign cities. In the end, the pictures were beautiful and the scenery was moving, but the The story has no close connection. It can be seen that these directors are very discerning and the cities they choose are quite unique, but there are probably only a few cities and cultures that are truly represented. In the end, many scenes in the film are just like music videos, with nothing to show for their appearance. (movie online review) The Sea is Released