Poster of the movie "The Last Affair".
Beijing News (Reporter Zhou Huixiaowan) On July 26, the movie "The Last Thing" held its premiere in Beijing. Young screenwriter and director Gong Xun attended the event with the creative team and chatted with the guests about the behind-the-scenes creation, Interpret the core value of the film. It is reported that the film will continue to carry out roadshow screening activities across the country after July 26, and will be officially released in theaters nationwide on September 14.
The movie "The Last Affair" is a true portrayal of family relationships in China. It focuses on the current situation of countless people who have left their hometown and live in a different place. The director uses delicate and natural emotions to explore the lives and conflicts of real characters. At the premiere, Director Gong Xun said: "I am a person who has a special hometown complex. When I was 17 years old, I left my hometown to live in a different city. There are many 'new' citizens like this around me, and they try their best to live in a different city. Trying to establish a foothold in urban life, but the feeling of leaving home and abandoning family ties makes many people feel unspeakably depressed, especially for the elderly. The feeling may be even stronger, so there is such an ordinary Chinese family retrieving family ties and roots. Story." The creation of "The Last Affair" made Director Gong Xun pay more and more attention to honest narrative of emotions. She believes that artistic works convey infinite emotions and thoughts in a limited storyline through practical observation of life.
The main creators of the movie "The Last Thing" took photos with the audience. The
movie "The Last Thing" builds a return-to-home narrative model around the core images of "family love" and "hometown". It tells the story of an old man who lives in the city with his children and returns to his hometown to find relatives on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The visit process of brothers and sisters depicts a fluid Chinese social landscape. The film was shot in Suzhou, Xi'an, Ankang, Ziyang and other places. In the summer of 2020, Gong Xun and her team of more than 50 people traveled across four cities and more than 2,000 kilometers, and went through hardships to shoot "The Last Thing" come out. The creative team upholds the greatest sincerity and hopes to arouse emotional resonance among more people.
On-site guests, media personnel, professional film critics and specially invited movie fans all said that this is a good movie with true emotional expression and content close to life. "It may seem like a slow narrative, but the emotions of the film are undercurrents." "It uses the intimacy of small characters to reflect the universal emotions in the era of great changes." "After watching the movie, I want to go home and watch it." "Between the water, I also thought of my hometown. I was working away from home, and I missed my parents and sister very much." "Only when I saw the flowing water of the Han River in the movie did I understand that the calmness of the Han River really makes people feel The beauty of tranquilityā.
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