The movie "Old Gun" directed by Gao Peng and starring Zu Feng, Qin Hailu, and Zhou Zhengjie is currently in theaters. The film was shortlisted for the main competition section of last year's Tokyo International Film Festival and eventually won the "Best Artistic Contribution Awar

directed by Gao Peng, starring Zu Feng , Qin Hailu , Zhou Zhengjie , is currently in theaters.

This film was shortlisted for the main competition unit of last year's Tokyo International Film Festival, and eventually won the "Best Artistic Contribution Award". The single mother Xiao Jin played by Qin Hailu is the only female character in the film with a touch of brightness. Recently, Qin Hailu accepted an exclusive interview with a Red Star News reporter and revealed the emotional journey of filming this film.

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A silent old gun, an unbearable fight.

Shooting athlete Gu Xuebing (played by Zu Feng) retired due to injury and became an ordinary worker in the factory security department. He discovered that his colleagues were guarding theft, but when he tried to stop him, he discovered that the son of his admirer Jin Yujia (played by Qin Hailu), Geng Xiaojun (played by Zhou Zhengjie), was also involved. in. With an unexpected death during the theft, the deep-buried evil surfaced, and everyone was involved...

This is the story told in the movie "Old Gun". With its cold aesthetic style, tense story, and delicate emotions, the film brings the audience into the story atmosphere and group destiny of the Northeast in the 1980s.

As a Northeasterner, Qin Hailu is no stranger to the scenes in the film. Whether it is props, costumes or scenery, they are very similar to her living environment when she was a child. "When we were filming the factory scene, I had a lounge, and the windows were full of ivy. When I was a child, there were many ivy on the walls of my house. A kind of plant would grow around the ivy, and it would produce black fruits, which are very sweet. When we were kids, we would look for that sweet fruit in the summer and pick it. A big plastic bag is eaten as fruit...many childhood memories from the time when this movie was filmed will be brought back."

The character Xiao Jin (Jin Yujia) has a lot of empathy with Qin Hailu. Many of the things that Xiao Jin did in the film were what Qin Hailu did with her mother when she was young, such as selling second-hand goods, selling seafood, selling breakfast, etc. "I have done all kinds of things. Xiao Jin was like this, and so were my mother's generation. I also did things like unraveling yarn, sewing quilts, and playing with cotton."

Previously, Qin Hailu said in an interview , his mother was laid off just like Xiao Jin in the movie A worker, her mother lived frugally in order to send her and her sister to school. “I didn’t know it when I was a child, but when I grow up, I will know it when I am my age. At that time, my parents’ choice was very difficult.”

In Qin Hailu’s view , Xiaojin’s background is tenacity and optimism. Whether she is opening a bun shop, making clothes or working as a waitress, she always maintains sufficient motivation in the face of the ups and downs of life. Qin Hailu said bluntly, "You can't see any sorrow or helplessness in Xiao Jin. If she wants to survive her life and live well, she must find a way to make money. Xiao Jin has always thought about 'making a living', and for her it is ' The process of planning and the power of life ”

"Old Gun" is the second collaboration between Qin Hailu and Zu Feng after 14 years after " Golden Wedding Romance ". Zu Feng once lamented that "the two are no strangers to each other and have grown up." He also joked that "Hailu has more aura." Qin Hailu said bluntly that her ideas were more in sync with Zu Feng's when the crew was filming, and the two worked together very well.

Referring to the relationship between Xiao Jin and Gu Xuebing in the film, Qin Hailu said bluntly that their relationship was a kind of ambiguity among middle-aged people, and they spent every day without saying anything, because their feelings at that time were very implicit.

At the end of the film, it is not revealed whether Xiao Jin and Gu Xuebing are together, but it is an open ending. In this regard, Qin Hailu said that there were actually several versions of the ending. One version was that Xiao Jin and Gu Xuebing got married and took a family photo together, another version was that Xiao Jin and Gu Xuebing were not together, and another version was that Xiao Jin and Lao Zhao (Feng Lei) ) is gone."I think the current ending is more in line with the mentality of middle-aged people and the living conditions of everyone in that era."

When asked about the types of roles she would like to try in the future, Qin Hailu said that she would like to try any role she has never played before. “Whether I am a producer, director, screenwriter or actor, I think I have to maintain curiosity, and curiosity really drives me to do a lot of work.”

Red Star News reporter Zhang Shihao editor Su Jing