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Yana Gupta

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Yana Gupta

India
Autumn Fairy Tale chinese drama review
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Autumn Fairy Tale
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by Yana Gupta
Dec 31, 2020
Completed
Overall 5.5
Story 4.0
Acting/Cast 8.5
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 2.5
This review may contain spoilers

A Suitcase-full of Sadness

I won't repeat the summary here but the movie failed to convey it's actual message.

On one hand, the movie is trying to tell the actual meaning of a family- a unit of people who are dependent on each other and care for each other; it is not be determined just by who you are born to. While, on the other hand, those having brotherly-sisterly feelings for each other get married! (Wait, WHAT!!??) That's what I call as 'insist' (yeah, I'm trying a wordplay with homophones, if yk, yk)

Looks like the director completed this movie in a week. There was no romantic buildup between the couple that end up together. Had it been a drama, they could at least have the space to show that like Go Ahead. It could still be a pretty good movie had they not wasted too much time on the sisters-swapping part. Emotions shown were deep and necessary for us to understand young girls' mental state but it could have been much shorter.

Cinematography (overall aesthetics) was dark, to complement the dark theme but maybe they could at least make the play-house scene more colourful as it was to show cheerful childhood memories. So it was okay-ish.

The only thing I actually liked was acting. Every single tear that dropped seemed so real. Every single smile looked so fake. Every single character was so gloomy.

In short, The whole movie is full of sadness. Watch it if you are bored of being happy.

Thumbs up: Acting
Thumbs down: everything else
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