On the day of the event, Shanghai Cinemas was bustling with activity. Han Han recalled his experience of going to Dongji Island ten years ago with Fang Li, who was the producer of "" at the time. Speaking of the story about the sunken ship "Lisbon Maru" and writing the sentence "When a ship sinks to the bottom of the sea" together, Han Han said frankly that he was "very sad": "Because it was too long ago, many people heard this The story may have passed with a sigh of relief, but for Director Fang, this matter became an obsession in his heart. He spent so much time and sacrificed so much just to complete this obsession. The movie was his dream and the 'artwork' he protected, which he personally saved." Han Han said that he had never doubted Fang Li's determination: "I knew he had no intention of doing this. Unexpected. I know his character, and I know he will make it, but it will take a little longer than I thought. "
Fang Li was even more grateful to Han Han for his generous help in making this movie that he spent all his money on. Contributed a "risk investment". He bluntly said, "My last (life-saving) straw will always be Han Han." Han Han admitted that in addition to admiring Fang Li's persistence and perseverance, he also hoped to work with Fang Li to "escort" this period of time that should not be forgotten. Do your part in history: "Director Fang spent a lot of effort to complete this film. He said that if he failed to complete this film, he would be a sinner of history. Then I don't want to be the 'accompanying sinner' of history. We all want to Make this and race against time to complete it, because if it is five or ten years later, this history may really not exist." After
finished the conversation with Han Han, producer and director Fang Li came again. Fudan University, had a conversation with Tian Qian, associate professor of the Department of Psychology, Fudan University, and Professor Sun Shijin, professor of the Department of Psychology, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University, doctoral supervisor, and director of the Fudan Psychological Research Center. Professor Tian Qian shared that during the viewing process, he and many of the audience around him choked up several times. "Every clip is real, and it touches me particularly. What I feel most deeply is that those who died were killed by Fang's director." "Salvaged" and then recorded on film, they did not really die because they were not forgotten; but those who survived did not really survive because they lost their comrades and relatives, and they carried too much pain. This is a heavy history.”
Professor Sun Shijin said that he had been there to watch the film when it was first screened at the Shanghai International Film Festival, and the unfinished exchange at that time was finally realized three months later. His most popular comment about "The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru" was that "it exposes war but conveys love", and was moved by Fang Li's always casual and casual attitude towards life. He praised "Fang Li is a living person, he awakens It is not hatred or narrow nationalism, but warm love."
In addition, Professor Liang Yong'an, a humanities scholar, doctor of literature, and professor of the Chinese Department of Fudan University, also sent a message to Fang Li and "The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru". , it mentioned that "Although we were not able to come to the scene, we must find opportunities to watch it carefully in the future and appreciate it carefully. This documentary has broad human feelings. After watching it, we will work hard together with all the people in the world who live seriously." Give our sincerity to create a new and better future.”
At the last stop of the roadshow that day, Fang Li came to NYU Shanghai. One of her classmates was a descendant of Zhoushan fishermen. She felt very deeply about the movie: “My home is far from the East Pole. The island is very close, but it feels like this story has never happened in my life.” She wanted to know what motivation Fang Li, as a “foreigner,” had to dig into this story. Fang Li also responded kindly: "What is the biggest motivation? Because we are human beings, and emotion is the motivation for everything."
Fang Li recalled that when he was standing on the deck of the "Lisbon Maru" sunken ship on the sea surface, "30 meters deep beneath his feet, there are 828 living beings sleeping here forever, and no one remembers them. At this moment The emotional triggering is extreme. "
When he embarked on the road to explore the truth, he was hit by the broken stories behind this historical truth all the time. All of this was the biggest motivation to complete "The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru". Although the movie reproduces that period of history , but countless touching emotional stories occupy 80% of the film. Fang Li hopes to tell the historical truth through these stories and use true feelings to make more people pay attention to this true story that happened on the doorstep of China and has been buried for 82 years
. Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Xiao Yang
editor/Qiao Ying
