"Movie Past" is a film supported by memories, which pays tribute to Chinese cinema. Scenes such as social phenomena, old movies, open-air cinemas, and children's gun games depict the childhood memories of people born in the 1960s and 1970s.

Once the film was released in 2005, it received a lot of praise, and it was also nominated for best feature film at the Changchun Film Festival, and some even praised it as the Chinese version of "Paradise Cinema".
This film is mainly 17-year-old became the Venice Film Festival film emperor, the youngest international film emperor in history, and is also the most low-key film emperor in China today, Xia Yu starred, and Guan Xiaotong, who was only 8 years old at the time, also participated in this movie.
The storyline of "Once Upon a Time in a Movie" is quite nostalgic, and the narrative of the story is interlaced between two eras, and the camera constantly switches back and forth between the streets of contemporary Beijing and the small town of the 1970s.
The story is told in Lingling's voiceover, using the current story to string together the dusty past about love, friendship and family affection.
In 1971, in a coal-producing town in the northwest, a beautiful small town announcer Xuehua fell in love with a movie he shouldn't love at an inopportune time, fell in love with a star he shouldn't love (Zhou Xuan), met the cutest and most dangerous love at the best age, and had the crystallization and bitter fruit of love at the same time. A broadcast accident (linked to the background of that era) led her to give birth to this child in the eyes of everyone's contempt: Lingling.
Lingling's happiest childhood was the years she spent with Mao Xiaobing. Both people enjoy watching movies, and Mao Xiaojun has a telescope where he can see magical things. But with Mao Xiaobing's father remarrying, Mao Xiaobing returned to Anhui, and Lingling's childhood disappeared with it.
Mao Xiaobing in the movie is unfortunate, his parents are divorced, and his father abuses him all day. But the forced childishness revealed in his nature, those frankness really made the adult world ashamed.
LingLing is also unfortunate, not knowing who her father is, but with a love for movies, "Little Soldier Zhang Ga", "Railway Guerrilla", "Road Angel", "Little Street"... Covering her entire childhood, she shared her mother's dream of becoming a movie star like Zhou Xuan. In the end, she was deafened by her stepfather because her brother lost his foot.
In that era, open-air movies brought not only happiness to XiaoBing and Lingling, but also dreams. The departure of the little soldier, the demolition of the movie big world, and the accident have left Ling Ling in a depressed and apologetic years ever since. She wandered around completely closing her mind and life. And that telescope, Mao Xiaobing gave Ling Ling a gift before leaving. It was this telescope that brought them the happy time of watching movies on the roof, and it was also this telescope that brought Lingling a lifetime of regret.
When I was a child, the quiet rural life, whenever a visiting film screening team arrived, it always aroused the interest of children. Like in the movie, when the tattered billboard is written with a black brush for the poster of the weekend movie trailer, and the paper that is pink or light yellow or light blue or dark green has become the most attractive picture in the child's heart.
It was not yet dark, and every family carried a small bench to the lighted stadium to take a seat, and even the screen was full of people. The child used the money he usually saved to buy some snacks, sat in front of the curtain and watched the fight and kill in the movie, after watching it, he was excited all night, and the next morning, with hazy sleepy eyes, he went to school to exchange "feelings" with his classmates. In a way it's a children's holiday.
Once upon a time, I also had a mao creep. That open-air cinema, our childhood, became an oil painting.
Later, every family had a surplus and bought AVCD/DVD player, and pirated discs were stuffed with cabinets. No one watched outdoor movies in the cold wind at night anymore, and the film screening team disappeared.
Deeply appreciate the saying: If my life is a movie, I am the only audience for it. If I write down stories from the past, it's like re-enacting a movie.
The director skillfully integrated old movies such as "Railway Guerrilla", "Rather Die Unyielding", and "Shining Red Star" into the plot, and presented them in a timely manner. In the interlacing of memory and reality, it carries the ideals and dreams of a generation, as well as the confusion of childhood about the distance.
Childhood innocence is always the shining point of life, and those sunny days when you grow up can only be relived in the dream factory of movies. However, it is a pity that such a good film is ultimately incompatible with the commercial film market, and it has finally been buried by time, and few people now know.