Changjiang Daily Wuhan Client April 30 (Reporter Wan Jianhui, Correspondent Tian Yuqing) "In the film, Lin Xiushan, played by Zhang Zifeng, and Wang Rui, played by Hu Xianxu , wanted to surprise each other by getting together during the Mid-Autumn Festival, so they took the train together by chance. They missed each other several times in each other's cities. During the journey, they both experienced various social changes and felt spiritual dependence. They gained a lot of romance and simple and pure love in an era when material was not abundant. "
Creator and Wuhan! Audience interaction, from left to right are director Li Weiran, male protagonist Hu Xianxu, female protagonist Zhang Zifeng, chief producer Zhang Yu, and on-site host. Reporter Wan Jianhui Photographed by
html On the afternoon of April 28, the road show of the movie "Journey Across the Moon" ended at Wuhan Wanda Star City Cinemas. The creative team was surrounded by Wuhan movie fans. When answering questions from fans, director Li Weiran said that the film is indeed based on pure love and warmth, with many romantic plots. The core of this film is that we cannot let secular life drown our passion and romance for life, that is, under any circumstances We must maintain enthusiasm for life and be full of this romantic mood.The reporter at the scene could tell that Li Weiran was telling the time and space background of the story, that is, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in the mid-1990s, migrant youths from the countryside, one at a construction site in Guangzhou, and the other at a food factory assembly line in Shenzhen , they all live in a collective dormitory, and they can only contact each other by queuing up at the IC card phone booth to make calls. They can only get together during the limited rest time on weekends and holidays. Wang Rui spoke well of the construction company in a TV interview and was granted a day off from work during the Mid-Autumn Festival in order to see Lin Xiushan. Because Lin Xiushan could make more than a thousand dumplings within the specified time, she was a production expert on the production line. She received a reward and bought a harmonica that Wang Rui liked, hoping to surprise Wang Rui. Lin Xiushan's account book is densely filled with entries, such as the train ticket to Guangzhou costing more than 30 yuan, and how much she spent on the leather shoes she bought for Wang Rui.
"Journey Across the Moon" poster.
dropped out of school to herd cattle, rural bridal chambers, green trains, rusty stations and railway lines, Hong Kong businessmen holding mobile phones, Wang Rui's middle-parted hairstyle, video screening rooms, hotels where young couples can rent rooms... the film presents The real youthful memories of the 1990s and those born in the 1970s and 1985s. An audience member at the scene said that it was this real feeling that made the audience feel immersed in the young couple who looked so much like a couple. They had no doubt about their surroundings, their situation, and their childhood sweethearts and completely untainted feelings. , and feel the same way. It is such an era of material poverty that can breed such simple and innocent emotions. When the two got on the train for the third time on the Mid-Autumn Festival night, they just hoped that they could see each other when the train missed the train, because they had to go to work the next day. Some viewers said that seeing this, they were worried about the young couple and shed tears unconsciously. Out.
"Journey Across the Moon" poster.
"Journey Across the Moon" is adapted from Chi Zijian's novella "Andante by Moonlight". Chi Zijian actually set the story between the two cities of Harbin and Qiqihar. The novel describes a young couple who were separated because they went to work in the city. They both unexpectedly got a day off on the Mid-Autumn Festival, so they boarded the train to visit each other and wanted to surprise each other. Unexpectedly, the two surprises turned into sorrow as soon as they crossed, and the imaginary reunion night was ruined. At the end of the day, the two took four trains respectively, but in the end they could only look at each other in the cars facing each other. After running around for a day, we are still separated in the end, and the tenderness of love is full of bitterness.
The progress of the story is interspersed with fragments of the two people's personal experiences and memories in the car. The time span spans ten years. The content covers the growth history, love history, marriage history, life history of the young couple, as well as the mottled lives of ordinary people at the bottom of society. The appearance of all beings. The
movie "Journey Across the Moon" obviously absorbed these plots. For example, Wang Rui recalled dropping out of school and returning to his hometown to farm and herd cattle. He played the harmonica to pursue Lin Xiushan, who also interrupted her studies. The two fell in love with each other and broke through the obstacles and came together; Lin Xiushan in On the train, sitting opposite a handsome prisoner escorted by the police, he took out the harmonica given to Wang Rui and begged the police to let the prisoner play the harmonica one last time.
Enthusiastic Wuhan movie fans at the scene. Photo by reporter Wan Jianhui
An audience member asked the director that one of Wang Rui's leather shoes ran away on the platform. When he got on the train, he simply threw the other leather shoe on the platform so that the pair of shoes could have a new owner. , why is such a plot arrangement? Director Li Weiran said that such an arrangement is of course to convey a message that love can be transmitted and warmth can be expanded. The love between the two protagonists for each other infects the people around them and fills the air with love and tenderness.
[Editor: Ding Yi]
[Source: Changjiang Daily-Changjiang Net]
