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Shining for One Thing

2023 · 107 min

A bittersweet time-loop romance that mixes tender summer nostalgia with a creeping sense of inevitable loss.

Genres
Romance, Fantasy
Overview
Zhang Wansen plans to confess his love to Lin Beixing, a girl he has had a crush on for a long time after the college entrance examination, but the sudden concert accident turned everything into an irreversible tragedy. Helpless Zhang Wansen unexpectedly restarted this summer, and returned to Lin Beixing before the tragedy. The secret of restarting summer seems to be not as simple as imagined...

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Tone
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • fate
  • grief
  • coming-of-age
  • memory
Places
  • school
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • twist ending
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour3
Realism4
Romance8
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Genres
romance, fantasy
Directed by
Pan Zhang, Xiaoming Chen
Written by
Duan Yu Le, Pan Zhang, Xiaoming Chen, Yichao Wang
Starring
Karlina Zhang, Qu Chuxiao, Fu Jing, Chiang Yun-Lin, Wei'er Li, Yu Qianqian, Yu Yao, Zhang Boxin
Cinematography
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Country
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