【电影简介】

18岁的郑微（杨子姗饰）满怀期冀地步入大学校园，开始她的追爱之旅。原来，郑微从小便与邻家的林静（韩庚饰）大哥哥青梅竹马，此次终于如愿考上林静所在学校的邻校，可以开诚布公地与之交往了。谁想迎接她的不是心上人的怀抱，而是命运的捉弄－－林静出国留学，杳无音信。郑微倍受打击，患难时刻却与室友阮莞（江疏影饰）、朱小北（刘雅瑟饰）、黎维娟（张瑶饰）及师哥老张（包贝尔饰）结下深厚友谊，在他们陪伴下慢慢走出心结。

崭新的大学生活正式开启，在这个男多女少的理工院校，郑微和阮莞两大美女很受瞩目。富家公子许开阳（郑恺饰）便是郑微众多追求者中很有实力的一位，而阮莞用她特有的清冷守护着对于爱情的忠贞。一次偶然的误会使郑微与老张室友陈孝正（赵又廷饰）结为死敌，在一次次地反击中，郑微惊讶地发现自己爱上了这个表面冷酷、内心善良的高材生，于是疯狂地反击演变为死缠烂打地追求，而陈孝正也终于在强攻之下缴械投降，欢喜冤家终成甜蜜恋人。

大学四年时光匆匆流逝，毕业在即的郑微憧憬着美好的未来，却再一次遭遇晴天霹雳：陈孝正迫于家庭压力选择出国留学，却迟迟不敢告诉郑微。感觉再次被欺骗的郑微痛苦地离开陈孝正，却遇到搂着新欢的许开阳，两下对比更觉世界的荒凉，但大家终于四散。

年以后的新世纪，郑微已蜕变为职场上的白领丽人，竟再次品尝命运的无常：带着悔意和爱意的林静和陈孝正同时回到她的生活里！郑微，这个昔日的玉面小飞龙，将怎样面对生活和青春赐予她的迷雾和抉择…

【音频文本】

"So Young" is Chinese actress Zhao Wei's Beijing Film Academy graduation assignment, and also her directorial debut. 15 years ago, Zhao Wei became a household name for her role in the Chinese TV series "Princess Pearl". The series, which has been extended overseas in recent years, was the most viewed Chinese TV dramaof its time. Her popularity on screen has continued ever since and her first directed film has set a new opening-day box office record for Chinese movies.

However, the film has not been considered a critical success. On China's largest online movie database "Mtime", many critics gathered to share their dissatisfaction, with their criticisms being placed on the narrative.

The story is based on a popular online novel about university students in the 1990s, or more specifically,four female students living in the same dormitory. The novel was well-received for vividly captuing the lives of ordinary students. Zhao Wei has aimed to follow suit, and perhaps also try and present sentiments about youth and the past. The movie copies the structure of the book and adopts a multiple-narrative. An excess of perspectives, combined with bad editing, spins the film out-of-focus and as a result, induces mixed feelings of nostalgia and bewilderment in the audience.

Another major setback is the nature of the original text itself. Popular online novels are often filled with touching, wise-sounding sentiments; well, that is arguably how they reach their readers' hearts and gain popularity. However, in her interpretation of the literature, Zhao Wei has obviously forgotten to translate such sentences into an appropriate pictorial or viewer-friendly language. The result is that during the film, we far too often hear young college students speaking in a pseudo-intellectual language befitting that of amateur philosophers, with several actors reciting their lines far too rigidly.

Many critics poising as rational viewers reject the movie on the grounds that it is unnecessarily sentimental. Well, those who are familiar with Zhao Wei's performance in "Princess Pearl" or indeed, any movies, would know that she spares no effort in trying to express her heartfelt emotions in her acting. The film may be overly dramatic in its nostalgia, but those who share similar experiences to any of the film's characters will immediately identify with the sentiments being expressed.

Lastly, the cinematography by Li Ran is near perfect, with the lighting and colors well-suited for invoking a sense of sentimentality in the audience.

All things considered, "So Young" is not really the best Chinese movie around, but it is successful in that it appeals to people's sense of nostalgia. After all, we have all had our share of regrets and it is indeed nice to look back on the past from time to time. On a scale from one to ten, "So Young" gets a five.

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