As director Edgar Wright's first film to break into Hollywood, it continues the consistent British humor; the action and racing elements are very gripping, but it is not the kind of typical American commercial film that keeps you entertained. It's a cool narrative; the characters are actually very interesting, but it's a pity that the length is too short and there's not enough historical explanation, so you can't figure out the characters' motivations.

The greatest value of the film is actually that he turned the song list into a movie. For the first time, music became the real protagonist of a feature film, letting music control the rhythm of the entire film, and even the lines and characters also followed. Music goes hand in hand. In fact, you can see this kind of attempt in the director's previous works.

In the framework of a commercial film, he relaxedly played an "experiment" full of authorial interest. This is the great thing about Edgar Wright.

Although even the music, the director chose too tricky and too biased - you may have heard that this OST has 30 songs. Most of them come from everyone in the history of music, but there are very few real chart hits. This is definitely different from "Guardians of the Galaxy". Some songs only appear in the corners of some off-beat albums, some are "Hidden Tracks", and some are rare original songs sampled from hip-hop hits you're familiar with...but these works themselves are not bad. It is precisely because they are not that famous and are really good to listen to that they do not have such a strong impact on the story, which prevents this film from "degrading" into a musical.

This also shows that the director is both a true "movie fan" and a true "music fan." Therefore, it is really rare for such a movie to be released in China. In fact, its significance to enriching the entire market is far greater than its box office performance. But after all, it is not a complete literary film. It has a threshold for appreciation, but it is definitely not something that you can’t understand if you don’t get any of the plot.

But, does every movie have to put story and characters first and not allow other elements to take a higher position? Have we sometimes received too much education under the socialist aesthetic system and regarded content as too much more important than form? Are we spoiled by Hollywood’s blockbuster narratives over the years and cannot accept slight disruptions and inversions of traditional narrative principles?

Whether it is the film itself or a work that feels like a vote, there should be a market, and it should have a reasonable result.