In 2014, Midnight Encounter, directed and filmed by Chris Evans, was officially released. It was also the first time that ” Captain America” made his debut as a director and star of a small, fresh romantic pure love film, although there are still many flaws in various aspects, but the overall atmosphere is comfortable and the sentiment is in place to express smoothly. The encounter between two strangers on a night in New York, there is no such thing as erotic entanglement, only the silly desire to comfort and encourage each other. The idealised story is so literary that one feels that the encounter is a gift of love. The lustful ending is a reminder of what is to come. The story of Midnight Encounter is a bit stiff, with a cold New Yorker’s reputation and a lonely heart that seems to have trouble curating such a long night. I didn’t really like the feel of the female lead, on the cold and dull side, and the photography throughout felt a little too much to me, with so many starbursts I thought the protagonist had gone to heaven. Even though Linklater’s influence is clearly visible, I have to thank Mr. Evans for his willingness to continue the sentiment in these times when romance is dead. The midnight fairy tale of a lonely escape from urban depression in the silence of the afterglow, the early lights, and the crisscrossing of the night, is done with surprising ease, with witty lines and glittering faces lighting up one by one in a coarse yet sincere process. It certainly won’t make the audience choose to believe in love after watching it, but it is possible to rub some comfort out of it.
Before We Go is not as naively romantic as Before the Dawn of Love, which starts off with all sorts of unlikely two people, the woman still married. After a series of twists and turns, big heart-to-heart pushes, and an unbelievably charismatic Captain America bursting with good intentions, the impossible moves a little bit towards the possible. As Captain America’s directorial debut, it’s a little bit of fun, and suitable for watching alone at midnight. Love in the series of urban reincarnation, less soul-crossing touching, a little more emotional clinging warmth, this film is more melodramatic, the pace is also closer to the general mainstream romance, although the key bridges are more or less shades of parody, but the overall layout and character presentation of the uncommon processing, so that the final effect of the whole film is more natural and vivid than pretentious and awkward
Before We Go has a comfortable and romantic mood throughout, and even though the plot is slightly cheesy and monotonous, it doesn’t grate. There’s not much I can ask for, except for the director’s cute eyes and sweet smile. It is, after all, a date movie, and you can’t have a date movie without the pheromone exchange of wonderful film companions, creating a dense cloud of air to refract and reflect the light on the screen. Other than that, Midnight Encounter is a good film, and for a debut film by an actor, it should be encouraged and acknowledged.