"My time is over, it's time to get out of the game."
This year's Spring Festival, the famous writer and racing driver Han Han brought his movie "Flying Life" to meet the audience, which is the final work of Han Han's "highway trilogy", which has received countless praise in just two days. The film tells the story of the racing driver played by Shen Teng who is in pain and happy to chase his dreams. In China, there are not many people who pay attention to the sport of motorsport, and perhaps many people do not know that Han Han is one of the best racing drivers in China in recent years, he has won the CRC championship for five consecutive years, and has become the most well-known racing driver in China. However, here there is no intention to discuss Han Han's racing career, after watching the whole movie, it makes people feel that "Flying Life" tells the story of another great driver, who is Han Han's predecessor and good brother, the legend of the Chinese racing industry, known as the "King of Rally" hero - Xu Lang. 2019 is also the 11th anniversary of Xu Lang's death. Han Han once again used a wonderful movie to remember and pay tribute to his good brother who was also a teacher and a friend.
In Han Han's heart, Xu Lang was the enlightenment teacher of his racing car. In 2002, when Han Han first entered the racing circle, he met Xu Lang, a master of China's rallying world at that time, and the two formed a deep friendship since then. Xu Lang (November 11, 1976 – June 17, 2008), china's best off-road racing driver, has run the National Rally Championship, the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship, the Dakar Rally, won the Annual Racing King many times, and in 2006 he participated in the Dakar Rally and won the 19th place, setting the best record for Chinese drivers to participate in the Dakar. He is also China's most likely racing driver to go global, but 11 years ago at the Russian Cross-Orient Rally, an accident took away the best Chinese racing driver at the time.
On the afternoon of June 17, 2008, due to the cancellation of the Dakar Rally that year, Xu Lang changed his course to participate in the Cross-Orient Rally, and he remained in the top ten in the competition. On race day 5, the track was muddy due to heavy rain, and many vehicles were stuck in the mud and could not move forward. In order to help the car in front of him get out of trouble, Xu Lang stepped out of the car to help the trailer with other drivers, at this time the tow rope accidentally fell, the hook hit Xu Lang's head, he unfortunately died, at the age of 32, when his wife was pregnant.
At Xu Lang's funeral that year, Han Han, who had been showing people with a giggle on weekdays, cried loudly. Han Han wrote in his blog: "He died in his favorite career and ideals, died on the track he loved, which is also the best heroic way to die in addition to the accident of Enron' old age." ”
For Han Han, although Xu Lang has been dead for many years, he has never forgotten that in his second film "Riding the Wind and Waves", the male protagonist's name is Xu Tailang, who is also a racing driver, and the meaning of tribute is very obvious. In reality, however, "Flying Life" may be the real tribute to Xu Lang, or to the entire Chinese rally driver. At the end of "Flying Life", the car driven by Shen Teng rushed out of the track and flew into the sky, and the movie ended here. Han Han left behind such a sentence: Heroes will never die. Indeed, the ideal of a racing driver will not die, and Xu Lang will always live in everyone's heart.