Thanks to online movie screening platforms, today it has become a typical cultural feature, loved, a daily habit, low cost, no travel time, large customer base…, Many famous movies in the world, although they premiered a long time ago, suddenly became “feverish” again, reaching the top of popular movies when broadcast online.

Typically, the movie In Time by actor Justin Timberlake and beauty Amanda Seyfried premiered in 2011, or the classic work Pride & Prejudice (Pride and Prejudice) released in 2005, He’s Just Not That Into You (Waiting for Love) with the participation of hot beauty Scarlett Johansson was released in 2009…

Besides, there are many other reasons to explain this surprise.

The influence of TikTok and YouTube

According to information from Techrada, in September 2023, the science fiction movie In Time was the third most viewed work on Netflix, although there were many new projects added to the platform this month.

The main character of In Time is Will Salas ( Justin Timberlake ), a young man from the slums whose life is measured in hours.

In Will’s world, the rich live forever, while the poor die while still young. However, Will’s fate changes when he saves an influential gentleman from time thieves.

Having a novel idea, revenue when released globally reached about 174 million USD, but at the time of launch, In Time still received mixed opinions.

NME criticized the film for having “shoddy dialogue and a muddled tone”. Meanwhile, the Atlantic said “it feels like the film was made from a forgotten Star Trek script”.

However, an important part that makes many people watch this old work on Netflix is ​​because of TikTok’s influence, when many accounts share images about In Time attracting tens of thousands of views.

Similarly, late last year, Unilad recommended that fans re-watch Sylvester Stallone ‘s film Demolition Man (1993) when many YouTube videos commented that the film was “criminally underrated” and The work then became a “hot” topic discussed in many newspapers.

The message is timely even though the story is old

As films that have been broadcast before, in order to impress the audience when re-shown on online platforms, old works convey current news stories, carrying messages that “touch” a large audience. fake at all times.

Although In Time has been running since 2011, it still conveys useful meanings about the importance of time.

Movies remind us that time passes very quickly. Therefore, don’t let it go by meaninglessly.

We often try to race for material things without realizing we are wasting the most valuable asset in our lives.

In Pride & Prejudice, the film takes the audience back to the context of early 19th century England – where pride and prejudice about social status, class and gender are clearly exposed.

With Pride & Prejudice, director Joe Wright wants to convey the message that intelligent, independent, and honorable people, in any society or era, always know how to find true happiness. me.

He ‘s Just Not That Into You revolves around 9 people who encounter many conflicts in their relationships. They have different opinions in choosing or living with their partner. The focus of the story is Gigi (Ginnifer Goodwin), a young woman who always misunderstands her lover’s intentions.

Instead of telling romantic fairy tales, the film brings a more realistic view of the relationship between the two halves of the world in modern society.

In particular, the work also reveals “secrets” in men’s psychology and behavior, which not every woman can “decode”.

The film conveys the message to always live optimistically and believe in true love.

As the character Gigi says at the end of the movie: “A happy ending is when you know that, after all the unanswered phone calls, all the broken love stories, after all the mistakes and mistakes, through Despite all the sadness and feelings of shame, you never give up hope.”