"Another Day Full of Hope" Nanjing Roadshow Arouses Audience Empathy
2024-08-14
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Recently, Nanjing-born director Liu Taifeng returned to Nanjing with his first feature film "Another Day Full of Hope". Together with the film's lead actor Sun Zhihong and producer Zhu Tong, he held a creative meeting called "Hope is Coming" at Nanjing Palace Cinema, where he chatted with the audience about the film's creation story, character creation, and behind-the-scenes stories of the film's shooting and production.
Directed by Liu Taifeng, starring Song Ningfeng, Zhang Xinyi, Guo Keyu, Sun Zhihong, Jin Jia, Liu Yitie, and Liu Yiran, the film "Another Day Full of Hope" is expected to be released in major theaters across the country on August 16. It is reported that the film mainly revolves around Wei Li (Song Ningfeng), an executive of a food delivery platform, Wei Li's wife Shen Junyi (Zhang Xinyi), Xu Xiaoxia (Guo Keyu), a family member of a food delivery worker who was involved in a car accident, and lawyer Feng Yuan (Sun Zhihong). An accident connects their lives that had no intersection, and they jointly seek hope for life. The film has previously been screened in advance in Cannes, the Shanghai International Film Festival Chinese New Wind, and the Jiangnan Branch of the China Film Archive. At present, roadshows in various cities are also in full swing, and the continuously rising reputation has won the high expectations of many audiences.
The main creative guests sincerely share the film's feelings and record the truth. Movies are born out of love.
As one of the important activities of Nanjing Palace Cinema's "Reading Art and Humanities Classroom", the director shared his original intention of creation from the connection between artistic creation and real life, and vividly explained the reason why the film chose 16mm film as the medium to carry the story, which is to "use the rough texture of film to restore the rough essence of life", to show the audience a real life appearance "without filters", and to tell a "story of everyone". Just as the host Yang Jinsong said, this is the best film he has seen so far that "truly records our normal life". Especially for the subject matter, he believes that this film focuses on the takeaway industry, and for the first time captures the realism that seems rare but difficult to express around the public, and shoots this kind of life reality into artistic reality, and strives to achieve it. Touch every audience.
In addition to the director and Yang Jinsong, producer Zhu Tong, from his own professional perspective, further revealed the story behind the film's casting to the audience in response to the public's praise for the casting of all the actors with good acting skills. The most suitable actor for the sense of story of "Daili" Song Ningfeng, the queen of the film Guo Keyu who has been recommended many times by industry insiders, the righteous and gentle second sister Zhang Xinyi, and Sun Zhihong who is best at challenging "complex and multifaceted" roles, etc. The casting purpose of the main creators serving the roles and the sincere attitude of the leading actors who "came for the role" made this film an excellent work full of real stories and "running in both directions" for love.
The audience at the scene explored the details of the film from multiple angles and found the effective power hidden in the life-stream film
The sincere sharing of the main creators aroused the enthusiastic resonance of the audience. Some audiences shared their own viewing experience and tried to explore more behind-the-scenes creation stories of the film with the director. Some audiences also asked sharp questions such as "How was the famous scene shot in one shot?", "Does the director also promote children?", "Should the title of the movie be changed?" In addition, many female audiences present turned their focus to family relationships, female values, and conflicts and reconciliation between parents and children in the film, successfully opening up another female perspective in the film besides the safety of deliverymen, layoffs in large factories, and mid-life crisis, and digging deep into topics such as the value of women in the family and society and the educational growth problems between parents and children in the film, which aroused the attention and thinking of the audience. The main creators not only answered every question seriously, but also conveyed the film's values of "no preaching, no definition, no chicken soup" through sincere sharing, and strived to create a pure realistic theme film.
According to reports, feedback from different roadshows shows that as the audience and the main creative guests have in-depth discussions and explored the details of different aspects of the film, the guests and the audience have been influenced by the real power of the film and moved by its sincerity. The audience said that "this is a particularly powerful and worthwhile film" and that after watching the film, they "felt that they had gained the strength to start anew."
