"I am waiting for you in the same place" is not a simple romance film or a commercial film, but through the return experience of a young and promising Chinese businessman, he inadvertently participates in a dispute over the secret recipe of immortal herb tea, exploring the love, nostalgia and life concept of modern people. Before watching the movie, I thought that the original place only referred to the "original place", but I didn't expect that it was really a specific place name, a place with beautiful mountains and rivers in Jiangnan, living with simple villagers, and a group of urban escapees who came here to find a moment of tranquility.
Chen Nianzi, played by Wu Lipeng, returned to China from thousands of miles away, took his grandfather's ashes to find a residence decades ago, fell leaves back to the roots, originally wanted to take advantage of the pastoral scenery to relieve the accumulated irritability, but unexpectedly encountered some things here that can shake the heart.
From the West to the East, from hustle and bustle to blandness, from depression to untying the knot, this mental journey tests the actor's acting skills, whether it is to reflect the identity and personality of the characters by words and deeds, or to project inner changes with subtle expressions and actions, it must be grasped to a just right point. In particular, the character of Chen Nianzi has its own unique complexity, has a Western cultural background, and has the underlying emotions of the Orientals, with his family strength and status, it should be full of light, but why is his heart full of entanglements and sadness, these contradictions and suspense need to be unveiled and revealed layer by layer.
Unexpectedly, Wu Lipeng interpreted such a complex and unique role very layered, when he first arrived in place, decent and polite, a standard Chinese Mandarin, it is difficult to believe that this is an actor from Yichun, Heilongjiang, and then from the professional and can reflect the tenacious will of the mountaineering, inadvertently put his usual personality that he likes to challenge, showed very clearly, in the face of Xiaozhu's questioning, he calmly said that climbing and mountains are used to conquer, in a word, in fact, his bitterness stems from treating everything as an opponent.
With the life in the same place, climbing mountains every day, searching, watching tea farmers plant tea, drying tea, walking, drinking fairy herb tea, the sun shining brightly during the day, phosphorescence dots at night, the natural infiltration of the soul is silent, Chen Nianzi's transformation is also quietly carried out, if you observe carefully, you will find that he gradually smokes less, the brow is not locked, the whole person is like being unlocked by the mountain forest, gradually becoming stretched, no longer so taciturn, talking with friends more, and beginning to care about the people around him.
And all these changes, we also saw Wu Lipeng's ability to interpret the characters, in such a realistic style of work, he put down the performance skills and flower work, through the plain and free portrayal, in the calm brewing in the calm of the dramatic tension, which is the current generation of young actors generally lack of ability.
As a young actor born in the late 1980s, Wu Lipeng has always given people a sunny and handsome impression before, when he debuted in the popular costume drama "The Biography of Zhen Huan", he played the three brothers, with a handsome appearance and a very small sense of carving performance and wide attention, and then, he has starred in "The Woman of the Knife Family", "List of Heroes of the Fengshen Gods", "Book Saint Wang Xizhi" and other works, in Yang Chao's directorial work "Yangtze River Map", he played the crew member Wu Sheng, and has begun to try to portray the complex personality and spiritual world.
This time, through "I am waiting for you in the same place", we and Chen Nianzi walked between tea gardens, homestays, streams, ancestral halls, and ancient trees, through clear vision and bright stories, cleansing the tired and numb soul, letting go of the bitterness and confusion that had haunted our hearts for a long time, thanking director Shen Chaofang and Wu Lipeng, as well as Feng Jiahui, Wang Zibu and other actors, so that we can have the opportunity to experience this unforgettable spiritual journey through the big screen.