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Author: Wu Mengqiao
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: A loving couple who love sneakers, a sneaker-stealing sibling, a shoe-loving brother who comes together and separates on Valentine's Day, a girl with pigeon-toed feet. Wu Mengqiao and Zhou Yanzi team up to give a warm and touching interpretation to the commercialized and secularized "Western Valentine's Day." As they repeatedly attempt to convey in their films and novels, "February 14" is not just a narrow day for love, but a day for all "loving people." The meaning of "loving people" may also be narrowed down or formalized. Wu Mengqiao and Zhou Yanzi boldly use the metaphor of shoes and pigeon-toed feet to pierce through time, depicting the emotional bonds between two generations of a family and the obsessive childhood consciousness among several young people. If "podophilia" is analyzed rigidly through Freudian psychological perspectives, it may become quite somber, but Wu Mengqiao and Zhou Yanzi skillfully bring the story to a sweet conclusion and let it gently, showing their shared understanding and warm perspective. Human emotions are endless. Whether they are expressed beautifully or not, whether they go beyond the narrow love between young men and women, is the basis for readers to judge the storyteller's brilliance. Wu Mengqiao and Zhou Yanzi, this human couple, tell a human story. In the vibrant and humid southern land, we see an image: loving people, obsession can bring love, and in an instant, release new love. Who says emotional matters are simple?