Bullying Drama “Better Days” Makes Unexpected Comeback from Censorship
校园霸凌电影《少年的你》意外卷土重来

The Zhou Dongyu and Jackson Yee-starring movie was pulled from cinema schedules earlier in the year
今年早些时候,由周冬雨和易烊千玺主演的电影《少年的你》遭到撤档

The Chinese internet is currently abuzz with news of a long-awaited, long-delayed release dropping on October 25. No, not Jesus is King, but Hong Kong director Derek Kwok-cheung Tsang’s disaffected youth drama Better Days — a movie that was abruptly pulled from competition at this year’s Berlinale film festival in February due to “technical reasons.”
目前,网络上充斥着大家期待已久的延迟上映的电影终于定档了的消息,不是Jesus Is King,而是香港导演曾国祥执导的青春片《少年的你》,今年二月,该片曾因“后期制作原因”退出柏林国际电影节评选。

The film was one of a number of high-profile Chinese productions to suddenly disappear from international festivals and domestic cinema schedules in the first half of 2019, leading to considerable doom and gloom in China’s film industry. Zhang Yimou’s One Second, a piece set amid the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, was also unceremoniously yanked from the Berlinale at the last minute, while Zu Feng’s Summer of Changshadisappeared without warning from Cannes in May.
2019年上半年,许多备受瞩目的中国电影突然从国际电影节和国内电影院中消失,给中国电影业的发展带来相当大的阴影,《少年的你》就是其中之一。还有张艺谋的《一秒钟》,背景设定在文化大革命的混乱时期下,也在最后一刻从柏林电影节中退选,而祖峰执导的《六欲天》,也没有任何预示情况下从五月的戛纳电影节退出。

The movie was forced to postpone its scheduled domestic release in June just three days before it was due out — the same period of notice that’s now been given for its rescheduled release.
《少年的你》这部电影被迫推迟了原定于今年六月的首映时间,而定档日期距离上映日期只提前了三天。

Starring Zhou Dongyu (of Zhang Yimou’s Under the Hawthorn Tree) and TFBoy Jackson Yee, Better Days follows a bullied student in the run-up to China’s all-important — and notoriously stressful — gaokaonational college entrance exams.
凭借张艺谋的《山楂树之恋》走红的周冬雨和tfboys成员易烊千玺共同主演的《少年的你》讲述的是中国高考背景下一名遭受校园霸凌的学生的故事。

According to the official blurb, “Like so many others, Nian has been single-mindedly preparing for the exam, cutting everything else out of her life. When she becomes the target of relentless bullying, fate brings her together with small-time criminal Bei and the two form a strong friendship. Before they can completely retreat into a world of their own, the two are dragged in the middle of a murder case of a teenage girl where they are the prime suspects.”
官方简介是这样的:“像许多其他人一样,陈念一直一心一意地准备着考试,把生活中其他一切都抛诸脑后。但当她成为无情的欺凌的对象,命运让她遇见了罪犯小北,并和他建立起坚固的友谊。在他们退回到自己的世界之前,他们两个作为犯罪嫌疑人被卷入了一场少女谋杀案中。

Yee isn’t the first member of squeaky clean pop group TFBoys to tackle a gritty subject matter on the big screen. Roy Wang appeared in Wang Xiaoshuai’s exploration of the impact of the One Child Policy, So Long, My Son, earlier this year.
易烊千玺并不是他们组合第一个在大荧幕上饰演坚韧不拔的角色的成员,今年早些时候,王源参演了讲述独生子女政策影响的电影《地久天长》。

TFBoys to Men: Pop Propaganda and the Growing Pains of China’s Biggest Boy Band.
tfboys:流量宣传带给中国最火少年组合的成长之痛。

Perhaps unsurprisingly in the current climate, censors seemingly balked at Better Days‘ content and releasing it around the time of the actual gaokao exams. Exactly what has been left on the cutting room floor and how this will effect the overall feel of the film that is now making it to Chinese cinema screens is hard to determine. But there is considerable excitement online at the film’s long-delayed release, with Better Dayshashtags attracting hundreds of thousands of views on microblogging service Weibo this week. Well Go, who have distributed a number of big-name Chinese releases in the US in recent years, are now reportedly looking at securing a North America run for the film.
在当前的大背景下,制作团队貌似对《少年的你》的内容避而不谈并选择在实际高考的时间上映,这也许并不令人惊讶。至于剪辑室的地板上留下了什么,以及这将怎么影响正在上映的该片的整体观感,目前还很难确定。但是这部电影推迟了很久才上映,这在网络上引起了巨大的反响。本周,《少年的你》话题吸引了成千上万的浏览量,well go公司近年来在美国发行了多部知名中国电影,据悉,该公司目前正在考虑在北美发行这部影片。

Interestingly, Summer of Changsha also made it to a domestic screen just last week — albeit in a far more low-key fashion at Fuzhou’s Silk Road Film Festival. That seems to have been a prelude to a nationwide release however, with Zu’s reportedly dark thriller now also set for an unlikely rebound from its previous “technical issues.”
有趣的是,《六欲天》上周也在国内上映了,尽管是在福州丝绸之路电影节上以一种更低调的方式上映,然而可以说这是全国上映的前奏,据报道,这部祖峰执导的影片中的黑暗惊悚元素已经用电脑技术进行了调整。