Wu Qianli is a prestigious college student who is about to graduate. He is currently interning at a financial institution in Shanghai. Since his girlfriend is studying in the United States, he has saved money and plans to visit her.
The world's major powers are free from war and are communicating closely. The beautiful era of globalization has made Wu Qianli full of yearning for life, and he also loves everything related to pop culture. PS3, Hollywood movies, French food... He is like breathing air
Just as natural. Director Fang Yi did not ask Wu Qianli to say "I love America", nor did he need to yell "USA! USA!" crazily like Meng Xiaojun came out of the consulate in "Partners in China" to make people around him look envious.
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Do you know why it's not needed?
In 1979, American photographer James Anderson photographed an 8-year-old boy drinking Coke at the Great Wall. The photo was published in National Geographic magazine and immediately caused a sensation. James titled the photo "Red China's First Can of Coke"
, calling him "the first person in China to drink Coca-Cola." Thirty years later, it is no longer strange for Chinese people to drink Coca-Cola. There was no war in Wu Qianli's generation, and he even had Coca-Cola in his blood.
Some details showed that Wu Qianli not only wanted to get together with his girlfriend, he also wanted to work in the United States and get a green card. However, his girlfriend seemed to think that instead of working hard in North America, it would be better to marry the old white man in one step; Wu Qianli had a conflict with his girlfriend because of this.
Then he began to be unable to get through to his girlfriend, and could never get through because she blocked him. He decided to go to the United States alone to find an answer, but something even more unfortunate happened: his flight was cancelled.
Many passengers who could not go to the United States gathered at the airport. Some people were so anxious that they cried. Wu Qianli secretly cursed, "What the hell is going on now? Why are so many people going to New York?"
The crazy New York!
Therefore, Wu Qianli decided to go to South Korea to relax. Isn't this also a trip abroad?
Frustrated in love, Wu Qianli recalled that his grandfathers had beaten up old white men and young white men. During a short trip to South Korea, he found that South Koreans were also facing similar situations to him. There seemed to be some kind of silent truth in the world.
Order and no one resisted, he went all the way north and saw news about the 60th anniversary of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea (of course Koreans would not report it this way).
Wu Qianli thought of the ordinary old man next door to his hometown. It is said that this year he received a commemorative medal for Victory Day. The old man seemed to have accomplished nothing except returning home from the war and farming. Thinking about it at this moment, he turned out to be a man with more eggs than him; maybe
Being too close to North Korea, the phone signal is getting worse and worse, and gradually there are only emergency calls that may not be reachable, let alone across oceans and continents. But the strange thing is that Wu Qianli contacted his girlfriend, and his girlfriend's voice was processed by the communication base station
It’s as vague as if it came from decades away...
What is that sound?
As expected, he still confirmed in a few words that he had recognized the breakup message.
Who is to blame?
Blame the flight that didn't take off. If I had gone to New York in time, I'm sure... I could have at least... No, she planned it, and I couldn't do anything.
In the entire clip, the picture did not show any frontal close-ups of his girlfriend. Some fans felt that they had already seen that Fang Yi's treatment was to make the "girlfriend" represent a type of person.
In this forest, Wu Qianli threw down his cell phone angrily. He also remembered that the war started on October 25, 1950 and ended on July 27, 1953. He vowed to remember this date. At this moment, he felt that he was in the same boat as the war.
Wu Qianli has arrived in Cheorwon, a city divided by two hostile countries in the north and south. He needs to go back to a civilized place and cheer up.
That place is easy to find. The Chinese Soldiers and Martyrs Cemetery is not far from the woods. This is a deserted cemetery composed of some remains collected by Koreans after the war. Since the collected bones cannot be identified and are incomplete, it has become a de facto cemetery.
There is a high probability that the person on the list will not match the person buried underneath.
There were a few bouquets of broken flowers that made the mausoleum look even more dilapidated. Wu Qianli took out his last money to buy flowers. As the sky grew dark, his eyes swept over the names of the people on the mausoleum. He didn't know any of these people, but there were so many of them and they were so dense.
There were waves in his heart, and he saw his name.
Five thousand miles.
Of course Wu Qianli didn't feel like he was dead. He knew it was just a coincidence, but at this moment, he felt a little honored.
He placed the bouquet of flowers here and leaned against the tombstone, running his fingers over the names. He noticed that this tombstone was inexplicably independent of the martyrs' mausoleum, standing alone here, as if it were itself.
The flowers inserted in the soil brought out a piece of soil. After cleaning it, it was a small piece of broken cloth. On it was the person's name, place of origin and unit number. Wu Qianli held the piece of cloth in the palm of his hand and thought
The name on that piece of cloth.
Five~thousand~li~
He held his breath, squinted his eyes slightly, and just took a nap like this for a while. The screen revolved around five thousand miles from the shadows of the treetops, and more and more people's voices appeared outside the screen. This kind of slight and rustling sound because of the large number of people.
, very obvious in the cinema.
The scene turned back to Wu Qianli's face. His peaceful sleeping posture was accompanied by footsteps and breathing that were getting closer and closer, until he was pulled up:
"Where are you from? You are a soldier. You are separated and your clothes are torn. What do you look like!"
The theater screamed in unison, the audience knew that the characters had entered the past.
Fang Yi used a similar technique in "Love Letter", focusing the main perspective on the character itself, letting the audience imagine "traveling" through voice-over, and then adding a line to represent that a new situation has been reached.
Yin Chuan and Lawyer Yuan collided in the same taxi. The black edges of the glass were used to cover the outside. Then the class bell was put down, and the scene entered into Yin Chuan and the lawyer when they were students.
Directly applying special effects to this kind of lens is very expensive and will destroy the sense of immersion.
Well, the latter one is not the most important, the main reason is spending unnecessary money.
Wu Qianli, who was woken up, of course went through the process of denial. Then he gave an erroneous answer and was suspected of being an overly nervous spy. Fortunately, the small cloth in his palm proved his identity, but unfortunately, he then
He was considered a deserter and was detained and stripped of all his clothes. After one night, the company commander of Wu Qianli's "original unit" came to look for him.
I can hear the company commander's very excited explanation: Wu Qianli was stunned by the American plane and may have suffered from cognitive dissonance. As long as he is given time, he can remember everything and the army cannot lose him.
Wu Qianli is a proven warrior! The company commander said so.
The visitor introduced himself to the comrade who detained Wu Qianli, "My name is Tan Ziwei." Then he looked at Wu Qianli nervously, full of expectation, "What should you call me?"
"Talk about the company commander." Wu Qianli asked tentatively.
This is not a touching plot. There are people eating potato chips and playing with mobile phones in the entire theater.
When director Fang Yi saw this scene, he suddenly remembered the last time he saw Lao Tan in Hospital 301, and he couldn't help but blush.
