Following "My Motherland and Me" (2019) and "My Hometown and Me" (2020), "My Father and Me", as a National Day trilogy, officially took over the 2021 National Day. Known as the "series of films that can never be bored to watch", "My Father and Me" continues the story structure of "My Motherland and Me", using four units to aim the perspective of light and shadow at the story of the parents' era, dedicating tears to martyrs and hope to the future. According to the latest data from Maoyan, since the national release of "My Father and Me" on September 30, 2021, as of October 10, 2021, the box office has exceeded 1.1 billion yuan, becoming the 91st film in the history of Chinese mainland film to exceed 1 billion box office!
In the movie "My Father and Me", the most surprising thing is the second unit, "Poetry", directed by Zhang Ziyi and starring Zhang Ziyi and Huang Xuan. Although this is Zhang Ziyi's directorial debut, there is no jerky sense of being a director for the first time, which fully reflects her so many years of acting life that she has a very transparent control of images.
In the film, the mother says to her son: You have to learn to grow up! When your mother is away, you still have to take care of your sister for your mother!
The son made a wish to Kong Minglan and said: Mother, you will not die!
At this moment, I burst into tears!
In this story, the mother played by Zhang Ziyi is engaged in a profession that we may never have heard of: gunpowder carver. At present, the booster gunpowder needed for rocket launch is still a technical problem in the world, and it cannot be replaced by a machine for the time being, but it is artificially carved by a "gunpowder carver" like "Mother". This work is extremely dangerous, and if you are not careful, you may rub out of Mars, and the gunpowder will ignite or even explode in an instant, and many researchers have sacrificed their precious lives.
During the Spring Festival in 2016, the highly anticipated 2015 "Moving China" award ceremony was held in Beijing, and Xu Liping, a "gunpowder carver" from the Fourth Research Institute of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, stood on the podium. The award speech given to Xu Liping by the Chinese Selection Committee was: Every time the knife is dropped, you can hear your own heartbeat. You have carved a small amount of gunpowder, and there can be no difference. This is a thousand guns tied to the shot, combat-ready missiles, manned spaceflight, every weapon of a big country, can not be separated from you. It's like a knife in your hand, forged for twenty-six years. You are a craftsman, you are a craftsman of a great power.
When Xu Liping was young, like the little boy in the movie "My Father and Me", his mother was also a "gunpowder carver". Xu Liping was very curious about the work his mother was engaged in and wanted to know what her job was. However, every time he opened his mouth, he was severely rejected by his mother: "Little children, don't inquire so much, danger!" ”
What Xu Liping did not expect was that after Xu Liping graduated from the technical school, he resolutely chose the place where his mother used to work, that is, the Fourth Research Institute of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. The year was 1987, and Xu Liping had just turned 19.
In the autumn of 1989, a national key strategic engine experienced two consecutive test failures, and when the third test was carried out, it was found that cracks appeared on the engine drug surface. In order to find the suspicious points and repair the drug surface as soon as possible, the expert group decided to set up an inspection commando team, drill into the engine combustion chamber to dig out the filled gunpowder, find out the root cause of the problem, and repair the defect of the medicine surface. The narrow engine housing allowed only the next person to climb in. As the youngest member of the commando team, Xu Liping climbed into the engine combustion chamber, in a half-kneeling and half-lying posture, using a small shovel to dig up the gunpowder little by little, not daring to slacken off.
The smell of gunpowder in the engine combustion chamber is strong and pungent, and it can make people dizzy and nauseous after a while. Therefore, every 10 minutes, you must climb out to breathe, otherwise you will be deprived of oxygen for a long time, your legs will be soft, you will not be able to climb out, and you can only dig out about four or five grams of gunpowder each time. This is also why in the movie "My Father and Me", the mother played by Zhang Ziyi will be dizzy and unstable when digging gunpowder.
It was under such circumstances that the "gunpowder carvers" represented by Xu Liping used superhuman perseverance to drill into the engine combustion chamber full of danger again and again with superhuman perseverance, and dug out more than 300 kilograms of propellant like ants gnawing on bones, successfully helping the expert group find the fault and making outstanding contributions to the successful development of the national key strategic missile development plan.
In the movie "My Father and Me", the test car failed one after another. The Panel requested the "gunpowder engravers" present to further narrow the engine gunpowder surface error. Many of the "gunpowder carvers" present showed a look of incomprehensibility, only the mother played by Zhang Ziyi raised her hand and said that she would strive to achieve an error of no more than 0.2 mm in the face of gunpowder. It is reported that whether the accuracy of the drug surface is qualified or not directly determines the precise range of the missile, and 0.5 mm is already the maximum error allowed by the accuracy of the drug surface of the solid engine. The miracle of reaching the error of no more than 0.2 mm in the surface of gunpowder is not imagined by the director, but by the hand of Xu Liping, a craftsman of the great power.
This is China's great craftsman!
Maybe their positions are not high, and even their names are not well known to us, but people will not forget their same name on the road to national rejuvenation: gunpowder carver!
Let's pay tribute to them with the poem from the movie "My Father and Me": life is something that burns, death is something that verifies life, and the universe is something that makes death small!