Novoland: The Castle in the Sky - Time Reversal (2020)

Novoland: Castle in the Sky series never fails to amaze me.

Novoland: Castle in the Sky series never fails to amaze me. Great movie. The cinematography is superb. The story somehow made me understand Feng Ren more. Also, Fang Ruche is not in any way related to this story. This is Feng Ren's back story which happened way before the timeline of Novoland Castle in the Sky 1 and 2.

And since the given plot summary is inaccurate and somehow confusing, here is a clearer version.
--- Feng Ren declares war on the Human Tribe. Seeing that the Human Tribe has no means of retaliating, Fang Qiwu (portrayed by Wang Yu Wen), the queen of Human tribe, tries to use a time machine device to return to the past so that she can possess the body of Nan Yinmeng, Feng Ren's beloved consort, and kill Feng Ren (portrayed by Chai Ge). However, when she wakes up in another timeline, she is told that Feng Ren is dead. However, Fang Qiwu refuses to believe this and merely think this is a rumor. The body that Fang Qiwu wakes up in turns out to be Hong Luan (portrayed by Chong Dan Ni), the top beauty of the Human Tribe. In ten days, she is to marry Feng Qi (Li Dai Kun), the crown prince of the Yu tribe (also brother of Feng Ren). As it is told in history that Feng Ren would play the Qin during the wedding ceremony, Fang Qiwu (as Hong Luan portrayed by Chong Dan Ni) plans to kill Feng Ren during her wedding day. During the ten days, she is protected by a man named Nan Feng. Fang Qiwu falls in love with Nan Feng as both share the same love for music. However, just a few days before the wedding ceremony, she finds out that Nan Feng's true identity is actually Feng Ren.

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A Heartbreakingly BEAUTIFUL Tragedy

I LOVED this movie. It was so much better than I expected it to be, I don't know why I put off watching this for so long. Everything was PERFECT: the casting, the plot and its execution, the characters and music.

I LOVED all the twists in this movie, I watched the trailer before watching this, so some of the twists were expected. But, the story is so much sadder then it seems. Despite Feng Ren being the supposed villain in this movie, he had the most tragic and heartbreaking story and I got where he was coming from. His backstory as to how he became the villain he was at the present day reminds me of Anakin's story. All he wanted was the Song of Yin Meng, the song he wrote with the love of his life who died ten days after they met.

It was so heartbreaking to see Feng Ren lose the love of his life TWICE, he knew her for such a short time but he loved her so much. I cried both times. And the twists just kept on coming. Not only was the FL the love of his life, but he made up the existence of Yin Meng, his "wife", so that everyone else in the world believes that he was married when in fact he had never married anyone and instead spent most of his life mourning the woman who possessed Hong Luan's body for a short time, the FL.

The plot of this movie was so detailed. The execution was PERFECT, non of the events take place in chronological order: first, because it's timetravel and second, because the plot is first told from the FL's POV and then the ML's POV. I LOVED that we got to see the story from both sides and we got to see ALL the important events. Though it may not have been in chronilogical order, the entire plot made sense. Once you put all the pieces together, it just gets even more heartbreaking.

I loved how the plot also made sense through its timeline of events. All the events in this movie were caused by a timeloop, showing how "destined"/inevitable the tragic love story was.

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