Have you ever been as crazy as the movie old boys?

The short film old boys has been very popular recently. It is just one of the "Eleventh Youth Series Movies" jointly launched by China Film Group and Youku. But it has been sought after by a large number of netizens on the Internet with incredible speed and popularity. In 20 days, the click rate on Youku alone reached 1.2 million, and more netizens consciously or unconsciously joined this viral marketing chain. This short film with rough appearance has inadvertently touched many people's heartstrings, especially those who are nearing the end of their youth. It represents a kind of regret and pain in the past of youth, which almost everyone has experienced, so this autobiographical work in the 1970s and 1980s touched the post-1970s, post-1980s and even post-1990s.

In an absurd way, the film tells the story of a pair of "old boys" who have been obsessed with Michael Jackson for more than ten years, but no longer have the mentality of "taking the cloud as a childish heart" and re-enter the stage to find their dreams. This short film, which is not original and looks a little rough, is moving because it captures many things with the characteristics of the times that have been popular since the 1990 s and makes fun of itself by spoofing and teasing. This era is the beginning of many youth and dreams of the post-1970s and post-1980s, and also the climax of China's reform and opening up. The rapid social reform and increasingly complex social relations have broadened the life path for many people, but also fragmented many people's youth dreams. Although the ideal needs to be achieved through struggle, it may not be achieved through struggle. This cruel gap between ideal and reality makes many people have a cold war when watching old boys, and a sour feeling emerges from their hearts. As a result, old boys, which appeared in the form of comedy, became an elegy of youth. In those years, there may be some fierce emotions to reprimand Fang Qiu, but more is the sadness and helplessness of the empty plan.