Soulmate (2016)

The movie Soulmate that i am introducing today is a story of two girls, July and An sheng.

In the movie July is rather quiet; but the Ansheng has a more free-spirited personality, but unfortunately, she never have a stable family that takes care of her. These two girls met at the age of 13, making the two girls with different personalities the most important friends in each other’s lives. They prank together, go to school, basically they are as close as siamese twins. In the movie it said “Sometimes July is the shadow of An Sheng, sometimes An Sheng is the shadow of July. They read in the book that if you step on the shadow of a person, that person will not leave for a lifetime.” which is quite cheesy haha. In the movie, Ansheng has always been the wild kid, she goes where she will, and she always believe that she will die at the age of 27. As for July, she lives like any typical Chinese kid, she follows the plan of her parents, go to university, plan to get married on 27 years old, have a child on 28 and buy her own house on 30. However, their friendship seems to be weaken by a man. July’s boyfriend. They met in high school, and July found out that her boyfriend actually had a crush on Ansheng for quite a long time, all the way back to High school actually. She was crushed and eventually canceled the planed wedding. Eventually, they forgave each other, and July starts to travel all over the world and became the wild kid that Ansheng was. And Ansheng fells in a stable relationship and finally settled down. And eventually, July died during delivering, and became the girl who died at the age of 27.

I remember i first watch the film on the flight to London and i actually shed some tears for July. I think people always have two sides, or Ansheng is actually the other side of July. Girl like July seems like a very typical girl next door, but actually deep inside her, she is wild and fiery like her name, July the hot summer. And Ansheng, who seems so reckless, deviant and don’t care about everything actually craves for a stable relationship and for someone who is there for her, this may because she is brought up in a unstable family, she can’t get what she wants so she pretends that she doesn’t need it.