"Predecessor 3": I just want to stay by your side

No matter how close people are, if they don’t contact each other for a long time, they will become strangers. So, if one day I ignore you, please remember to come to me. This sentence that Lin Jia never said to Meng Yun allowed us to spend our entire youth understanding a movie.

"Exes 3" uses the shell of comedy to change its mind. It starts out as a comedy, but ends up being so heavy that you can't even breathe.

The beginning of the story is a promise word for word. But as time goes by, things will always change unconsciously. You couldn't give me the companionship I wanted, and I couldn't give you the understanding you needed. "Breaking up" became just two words that could be said out loud.

The worst thing is that if you really break up, you want to forget her on the one hand, but on the other hand, you know that she is the only one in the world who can make you happy. You recall all the times you had with her, playing them over and over in your head, looking for every sign that something was wrong.

Memories are not scary, as long as two people relive them together. Just like Yu Fei and Ding Dian, they used the shell of their quarrel to express their longing for each other. They broke up just to meet again for various reasons, even if they were quarrelsome and quarreling every time. The final "full confession" turned into a disguised show of affection.

No matter how heart-warming the memories are, they will be piled up by silence into bloody plots. Just like Meng Yun and Lin Jia, no matter how passionate their love is, no matter how heartbreaking the breakup ceremony is, it can't be compared to the distance created by "zero communication". One is waiting for her to look back, and the other is waiting for him to stay. But no matter how many times his heart turned, no one wanted to be the one to speak first.

I thought that they would definitely reconcile in the end. It would have been nice if Meng Yun had stopped Lin Jia when she was packing her luggage; it would have been nice if Meng Yun had visited her once after getting Lin Jia's address; it would have been nice if Meng Yun personally gave the medicine to those who had a fever that rainy night It would be nice for Lin Jia; it would be nice if Meng Yun walked up to Lin Jia bravely in the KTV; it would be nice if she waited for Meng Yun's arms when Lin Jia cried. It's a pity that there is no if, the ending is realistic and catches people off guard.

Failure to love is the biggest regret in love. Lin Jia was once Meng Yun's weakness, and Meng Yun was Lin Jia's armor. Nowadays, the people he loves are all her shadow, and he uses this way to make up for his past mistakes; she looked at the girl who looked so much like her when she was young, and cried and sighed: "The girl who is proud and confident, who loves unconditionally." Where have you gone? "If you don't want to leave, please hurry up, but it's a pity that they all understand it too late.

Those misfortunes are not destiny, but the older we grow, the more accustomed we are to being on guard, and the more we learn to say things that we don’t mean and do things that we don’t mean.

Meng Yun and Lin Jia in the movie, if you don’t chase them, I won’t stay. They are always waiting for the other party to take the initiative. But time waits for no one. Waiting, waiting, but what is waiting is the appearance of new people. He gave her the companionship she deserved, and she gave him the long-lost warmth. Those true words that people dared to say only after they were drunk have sadly been withdrawn in that WeChat dialog box. They missed the best opportunity and expired forever.

In the end, Meng Yun dressed up as Zhizunbao and shouted in the square: "Lin Jia, I love you!" He cried until he was hoarse. Lin Jia kept eating mangoes that made her allergic until she fell into a coma. They said goodbye to this love and the person they once loved deeply in the way they had promised each other. From now on, regardless of the return date, I will never miss you again.

The movie plays them in the present while recalling the past. Let regret spread over time and merge with growth. Lin Jia accompanied Meng Yun through the initial difficult period of starting a business. They ate instant noodles together, scrimped and watched half-price movies, and endured loneliness alone. She made Meng Yun a better person, but the two of them fell in love with each other. In reality, further and further away. Love always makes people mature after making mistakes, and growth always makes people lose and learn to cherish at the same time.

Director Tian Yusheng used three movies to talk about "ex", sometimes laughing and cursing, sometimes affectionately, expressing the sadness and regret in love. Those who have truly loved only say goodbye and never talk about their debts. People who have truly loved will make us a better version of ourselves, learn to cherish the people in front of us, and no longer let "loved" become the most heartbreaking answer.

The end of the movie says that only when the Supreme Treasure leaves Zixia can it grow and become Sun Wukong. But what Zhizunbao didn't have time to say was: I just want to stay by your side.