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My Love
Movie

My Love

2021 • Unknown

Woke Score
1.4
out of 10

Plot

Tells the 15-year love story between Zhou Xiao Qi, a long-time swimming student and You Yong Ci, a transfer student. In high school, Zhou Xiao Qi fell in love at first sight with You Yong Ci. A young and ignorant pure love, the boy silently guarded, but the girl left without saying goodbye. Life after that, 15 years of love long-distance race. Your wedding is also my coming-of-age gift.

Overall Series Review

The film is a straightforward Chinese romantic comedy-drama focused on the long-term, bittersweet pursuit of first love over 15 years. The narrative revolves entirely around the personal relationship, growth, and unfortunate timing between the two main characters, Zhou Xiaoqi and You Yongci. The movie operates entirely within a traditional, universal framework of romance, focusing on concepts like sacrifice, loyalty, personal maturity, and letting go. There are no elements of identity politics, vilification of any group, or cultural self-hatred. The female lead pursues a career, leading to a geographical separation, but this is depicted as a life choice, not an ideological rejection of family, as the story culminates in her wedding. The focus remains on the emotional reality of a heterosexual relationship, free from ideological lecturing.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

The film is a localized Chinese production with a culturally authentic cast. The entire plot centers on the personal merit and emotional choices of the two main characters. There is no focus on race, intersectionality, or the vilification of any ethnic group; the narrative is genuinely colorblind and focuses on the content of the soul.

Oikophobia1/10

The setting is modern China, telling a simple, personal love story. The plot shows no hostility toward Chinese culture, tradition, or ancestors. The themes are universal and domestic, celebrating human relationships without engaging in any form of civilizational self-hatred or favoring external cultures as morally superior.

Feminism3/10

The female lead, You Yongci, is depicted as independent and driven, pursuing a career path that involves travel and study in Milan, which causes separation and conflict in the relationship. This career focus slightly increases the score. However, the film is framed around the male lead's protective dedication and culminates in a traditional wedding, suggesting that commitment and pairing are the ultimate goals. Masculinity is shown as protective (fighting for her in high school), and the dynamic is complementary, with the score only reflecting the career-over-relationship choices made by the female lead.

LGBTQ+1/10

The narrative is a singular focus on the male-female pairing of Zhou Xiaoqi and You Yongci over 15 years. The film operates within a normative structure, making the traditional nuclear family and heterosexual pairing the standard without any presence or lecturing on alternative sexualities or gender theory.

Anti-Theism1/10

As a romantic drama, the film has no discernible religious or anti-theistic themes. The conflict is rooted in fate, timing, and individual choices, not a challenge to objective morality or an attack on traditional religion. The morality presented is based on the transcendent values of true love, loyalty, and emotional maturity.