1905 movie network feature June 10, 25th sessionShanghaiInternational Film FestivalgoldKnight AwardMain Competition Unit EntriesIt was worthwhile.Hold a press conference, supervise the productionCao BaopingWriter and directorLiu JiayinBring actorsHu Ge,Wu Lei,Qixi,BaikeMeeting with the media.
In the film, Wen Shan, an ordinary screenwriter who is "left behind", accidentally starts to write eulogies for a living. In his encounters with ordinary people of all kinds, Wen Shan comforts others, gains warmth, and finally finds his own life direction. The film is a true portrayal of director Liu Jiayin’s more than ten years of constantly balancing the relationship between himself and the world to find answers. "I also often go to Babaoshan and the zoo. Many of them are my imagination of what life might be like. I imagine that I can do something in Babaoshan, and there is something that needs me, and this character is transformed from it."
In the film, Mr. Hu portrays an introverted observer who "smiles occasionally and is happy, but looks not so happy and everything is normal." When he first started creating the character, Mr. Hu was very concerned about whether he could find someone to refer to in real life, and the character did not fit his past experience in creating characters. "When I don’t have a specific person to refer to, I feel unconfident and afraid that I won’t be able to really get close to this person."
Ultimately, in this somewhat healing story, Hu Ge found a connection to his own experience in recent years. After his mother died in 2019, "I never had the courage to face this matter squarely. It was my good fortune to meet Wen Shan. In fact, when I met this character, he really kept healing and warming me, and I was always switching between Wen Shan and the character he healed."
For Wu Lei, who is working with Hu Ge for the third time and plays Wen Shan’s inner projection in the film, this performance is also a new challenge for Wu Lei, who is starting to try out the author’s film. Sometimes the characters are not so "landing", and at the same time they have to reach a certain echo and care with Hu Ge’s performance. As a character waiting to be created in the film, Wu Lei said that Xiao Yin is waiting for a better way out. "This is very much like myself, and like many young people, they long for a better future."
In Hu Ge’s opinion, the role of Wen Shan is to the director Liu Jiayin, just as Wu Lei’s role of Xiao Yin is to Wen Shan. Liu Jiayin, who projected a lot of her own experiences and emotions, admitted that when she first wrote the script, Wen Shan’s face was always blurred, until the moment it was turned on, "The reaction from quantitative change to qualitative change happened, he seemed to steal Wen Shan from me, and from then on I can see Wen Shan’s face."