Beijing News (Reporter Zhou Huixiaowan) The movie "The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru", which took Fang Li as the producer and director and took eight years to complete, is now in theaters. The film has received praise both inside and outside the industry for its razor-sharp explorat

Beijing News (Reporter Zhou Huixiaowan) The movie "The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru", which was produced and directed by Fang Li and took eight years to complete, is now in theaters. The film has received praise both inside and outside the industry for its razor-sharp exploration of the truth and its true stories full of sincere emotions. Recently, post-screening exchange activities were held online and offline for the film. In addition to sharing the touching true stories in the film with the audience, Fang Li also chatted online with Ye Jing, associate professor at the School of Management of Beijing Film Academy.

Fang Li (first from the right) said that filming "The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru" is his mission. At the

road show, Fang Li said that making this movie was his mission, because he "grabbed physical evidence and witnesses" and this is what he should and must do. When sharing the story of the filming process and behind the scenes, Fang Li admitted that he struggled for a long time whether to appear in the film to tell the story, and finally decided to go in front of the camera and take everyone's curiosity to search and go. Discover and feel. He knew that he had a heavy responsibility. "The suffering and true feelings experienced by the descendants of these Allied prisoners of war are what we have experienced before. They are common emotions of mankind, so we can be deeply touched. In addition, Chinese fishermen appear in the story. Today We use movies to tell all this, and there must be a Chinese person in front of the camera. So what I represent is not myself, but the country where the incident occurred, and the simple emotions of the people around me."

Photo taken at the road show.

On the same day, a family member of the Malaysia Airlines victims also came to the road show. Ever since he heard that Fang Li's next goal is to find Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, he has been paying attention to this film and the news about director Fang Li. After hearing the news that Director Fang Li would be present, he came specially to watch the movie, just to say thank you to Director Fang Li in person. After watching the movie, he couldn't calm down for a long time. He choked up several times when communicating with director Fang Li: "I thought I had shed all my tears in the past ten years, but when I sat in the cinema, I was still fascinated by this. "I was deeply moved by this film." He thanked Director Fang Li for giving him hope again: "Maybe I can't represent all the family members, but at least I represent myself. At least I am grateful that there are still people who care about this matter and have taken practical actions. "

Fang Li revealed that the earlier premiere of Dongji Island was screened in the open air on the seaside, hoping to use this "immersive viewing" method to let the local islanders know that 82 years ago, the tragedy recorded in the movie was What happened in the nearby sea also allowed the descendants of the fishermen to see how dangerous their ancestors chose to enter the sea to save people. Fang Li said that the kindness of the Zhoushan fishermen ancestors was of great significance both then and now and deserves to be known to everyone.

editor, Xu Meilin

proofreader, Li Lijun