The grandchildren in "We See You in Heaven" are dependent on each other, their lives are so plain, plain that they seem to be dull, but the emotions between people are very sincere; although we have never seen an outbreak of emotion in the movie, the emotions that have penetrated our marrow are still so full and intense.
A small movie story, in the social corner that looks like a city and a village, it is like a paradise with yellow grass leaves, quiet and desolate, always raining, rain seems to wash away the impetuousness of our hearts, in that era when we can't see hope, we still experience human feelings, family affection, love, it carries a lot, precipitates in our hearts a lot.
Grandpa is gone, and he is walking so peacefully and peacefully, let us feel that Grandpa did not die, but went to heaven, leaving us with that faint sadness.
"We See You in Heaven" is Jiang Wenli's autobiographical film and the only Chinese film to be shortlisted for the "New Wave" section of this year's Busan Film Festival. From the perspective of a child, the film tells the touching story of a little girl and her grandfather in the late 1970s.
This is the directorial debut of the famous actor Jiang Wenli, and it is also her first self-directed and self-acting work, with the help of the lens, she records the growth of the little girl, expressing the inheritance and extension of life from generation to generation. The "facsimile" of this pair of "grandchildren" is Jiang Wenli and her grandfather. Jiang Wenli said: "This is an autobiographical story, a story about my grandfather and me, about the relationship between a little girl and an old man, and the life of that era. The grandfather in the film is played by Zhu Xu, an eighty-year-old famous performance artist of Beijing Renyi, and this film will also be his film. The prototype of the film is Jiang Wenli's grandfather, Zhu Xu not only learned the Bengbu dialect, but also successfully shaped the role with rich life experience and performance experience.
At the same time, "We See You in Heaven", the debut filmed by Jiang Wenli as a director for the first time, will also be the only Chinese film shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Busan International Film Festival, and will compete with 11 other shortlisted films for the film festival's grand prize "Best Film Award". The first time she became a director, she achieved such good results, in the eyes of ordinary people, this may be inseparable from her husband who is a director, but Jiang Wenli revealed that this film was completed independently by herself under Gu Changwei's "standing by".
The first time Xiaolan heard about death was because of Xiao Cui's death, so she was worried that her grandfather would also leave her, but in the end, Xiaolan's grandfather still left her. Accompanied by the death of Xiaolan's childhood grandfather, Xiaolan's sadness is not portrayed in the film, but the camera is given to the simple and bright cottage, Xiaolan's painting of orchids blooms as always, and the window is also sunny, we all know that just like Naran sex said in "Drinking Water Words", "If life is only like the first sight, what autumn wind sad painting fan."
From the time when the little girl Jiang Xiaolan was still young, grandpa bathed and dressed her, and every time he accompanied Xiaolan to practice gymnastics, when Xiaolan practiced gymnastics and cried in pain, grandpa dressed up as Sun Wukong to make her laugh. Grandpa sewed gymnastics clothes for Xiaolan and found someone to make menstrual belts for Xiaolan. Everything that could be given to her was given to her by grandpa, but he couldn't call Xiaolan's parents back. So grandpa pretended to be Xiaolan's parents to write to her, and the grandchildren lived day by day.
Later, Xiaolan grew up, and her grandfather gradually grew old. The doctor said that Grandpa's organs failed, and only the heart was still beating, and that was because Grandpa couldn't rest assured that Xiaolan was alone. Xiaolan began to bathe and dress grandpa, feed grandpa to eat, take grandpa out of the house, and pretend to be Sun Wukong to make grandpa happy. Time flies, it's like a feeling of reincarnation, how you loved me when you were a child, and now that I'm growing up, I love you that way.
I asked my grandfather: Where do people go when they die?
Grandpa told me: Good people go to heaven, and bad people go to earth.
Grandpa finally fell ill, and the doctor said he was too old, but he still couldn't rest assured of me. Since then, I have clumsily taken care of my grandfather in the same way that my grandfather used to take care of me, and I firmly believe that if I can take good care of him, he will be fine. I carried responsibility and love on my tender shoulders.
That year, I grew up all of a sudden.
Although Grandpa left her, Xiaolan knew that Grandpa had gone to heaven to reunite with his uncles, and Grandpa had given Xiaolan all his lifelong love, and perhaps the next time Xiaolan and Grandpa would see each other again would be in heaven. There are often rainy plots in the movie, rainy days metaphorically the era of wind and rain at that time, in the rainy days Xiaolan did not have the company of her parents, and her grandfather became an umbrella in Xiaolan's rain, in the film you can often see that every rainy day, Xiaolan will hold an umbrella in her hand, that umbrella can symbolize Xiaolan's grandfather, in Xiaolan's childhood, her grandfather acts as his protective umbrella.
One day, my parents, who worked far away in the northwest, wrote a letter. This long-lost letter made me realize that all the letters my parents had written to me in the past ten years were written by my grandfather, full of boxes, all of which were fonts imitated by my grandfather, and all of which were the warmth that my grandfather had written to me.
Grandpa knew his parents were coming back, and on a sunny afternoon, in my company, he closed his eyes in peace.
On the day of my grandfather's burial, it was drizzling, and I pinned all the railway badges that my grandfather had obtained in his life to his chest, and I told my grandfather that I would be a good man and meet him in heaven in the future...