In the first scene of the short film, the camera is shot from the near side, and the heroine is making a phone call.
She mentioned her father on the phone and made an appointment with a doctor to discuss follow-up treatment!
At the edge of the camera, an old man with white hair and a white beard sits there quietly.
Many people speculate that this should be her father, right?
The camera zoomed out and turned into a frontal view.
The woman's belly is swollen, she is obviously pregnant.
She hung up the phone and took a long breath.
The expression on her face was not pretty. She stretched out her hand to touch her bulging belly and exhaled again!
Apparently she wasn't in such a great mood!
The old man next to him, who seemed to be her father, had his hands in the pockets of his coat. Seeing the woman's appearance, he asked with concern: "Are you okay?"
However, the distance between the two people sitting and the old man's reaction made the audience a little confused. Could it be that they guessed wrong?
Because he doesn't seem that familiar with women, more like the concern of a stranger!
The woman turned her head and looked at the old man and nodded: "I'm fine!"
The old man asked: "How many months has it been?"
While rubbing her swollen belly, the woman looked a little surprised when she heard the old man's words and asked: "What?"
"I just want to know how long you have been pregnant?" the old man said as he glanced at the woman's swollen belly, and then seemed to sense the woman's impatience, or perhaps felt that his question seemed a bit abrupt.
He said again: "Sorry!"
Then turn around and stop looking at the woman!
In the picture, the woman seemed a little helpless, but she still answered the question: "Twenty-one weeks!"
She turned to look at the old man again: "Tuesday will be twenty-one years old!"
"Nolongtogo!" the old man said with a smile.
The woman didn't look at the old man and said, "It's easy to say!"
The old man asked curiously: "Do you find it difficult?"
The woman nodded.
The old man saw that the woman seemed a little depressed, and smiled as if to comfort her: "You must still feel very excited!"
The woman smiled back at the old man! Although her smile looked a little bitter!
But obviously, she thinks he is right!
Both of them were silent. After a while, the woman suddenly said: "I'm scared!"
The old man wondered: "What are you afraid of?"
The woman seemed to be under unknown pressure. She said: "Everything! Everything!"
The old man comforted and said: "You will definitely be fine!"
"Everyone says that, but what if it doesn't get better?"
The woman looked at the old man: "What should I do?"
I don’t know why many viewers in the theater were touched by this sentence.
Yes, everyone will comfort me and say that it will definitely get better, but what if it doesn’t get better? What should I do?
The old man thought for a moment and said, "Your husband will help you!"
The woman didn't answer, she just lowered her head and touched her swollen belly! She didn't wear a ring on her hand, and her reaction let everyone know that she might be an unmarried mother! Or, she was divorced...
"It will be solved! Everyone can do it!" said the old man!
The woman was noncommittal: "Really?"
The old man turned sideways: "Where are your family members?"
The woman showed a helpless smile: "My family's situation is very complicated!"
"Do you have a bad relationship?"
"It's just me and my dad at home! He's still sick, so..."
"It'll be fine!"
But after the woman heard it, her nose felt sore and she felt like crying!
She pinched her nose and tried not to cry.
There was another period of silence! The woman was depressed and the old man looked forward blankly!
At this time, the bus is coming!
The woman stood up as if saying goodbye to the old man: "Let's go, the car is here!"
She picked up her satchel on the chair and walked towards the bus!
She took two steps and suddenly turned to look at the old man.
The old man seemed a little confused and at a loss!
This woman came over and stretched out her hand: "Dad, let's go!"
She held her elderly father's hand and got on the bus. In the camera, the bus slowly drove away!
The short video is over!
Many viewers in the theater have not yet recovered!
At first, some people actually speculated that the old man belonged to her father.
But in the middle, the conversation between the two made people deny this speculation, because the two seemed not to know each other.
From a stranger who met by chance to a father who has been with him since childhood, this transition is shocking enough!
In fact, the information revealed in the previous dull conversation was anything but dull.
The woman in the play obviously does not have a husband, and later she has to face not only the child who is about to be born, but also the care of her father with Alzheimer's disease. Even with welfare protection, the hardship of life is unimaginable by ordinary people. But that's how life is.
, causing you great pain and forcing you to persist.
As the woman said, what if it doesn’t get better?
She could only grit her teeth and move on, what else could she do?
This makes many people feel distressed, and what is even more distressing is that if a father who raised his daughter as a princess would feel so sad and guilty when he saw his daughter's current situation.
What's even more distressing is that he can't even remember the daughter he once loved most.
I believe that any father would never want to be a burden to his daughter.
But no matter how strong a father is, he will grow old one day!
Inexplicably, some people in the theater began to cry.
Perhaps the biggest difference between this short film and the previous short film is that that short film expresses more maternal love and touching!
However, a seemingly plain conversation has many points that can touch you inadvertently.
Different people are touched at different points.
Some people may suddenly feel her helpless yet strong feeling when she said "Dad".
Or maybe it was because when she asked in shock: "What?", she felt helpless and sad when she found that her father had forgotten her again!
Or, she asked desperately: "Everyone says so, but what if it doesn't get better?"
Or maybe it was seeing the confused look on Dad's face when the woman got up and left...
In fact, the twist in the short film is not as amazing as expected. Many people may have guessed it when they watched it.
But as someone in the audience said: "I guessed it, but when the truth came out, it still shocked me!"
"Bah, bang, bang!" After a moment of silence, roaring applause rang out.
Especially since they knew that this short film only took less than one afternoon to complete.
And coupled with the short film that is less than 2 minutes long but can move people deeply, these applauses all come from the heart.
Because Li Yi has indeed proved with facts what it means to turn stone into gold, turn decay into magic, and turn mediocrity into amazingness!
It also proves that Li Yi is not in vain!
ps: When I watched this short film, I was disgusted by the barrage. There were spoilers from the very beginning!
