Original title: The film Morning Clouds, Evening Rain focuses on the human nature
Beijing Daily (Reporter Yuan Yuner) The film Morning Clouds and Evening Rain, directed by Zhang Guoli and starring Fan Wei and Zhou Dongyu, is being released. The film starts from a controversial marriage, focusing on the subtle human nature and impermanence of destiny behind it.
The film rarely focuses on the real life of those released after serving their sentences. Centering on two released felons, Lao Qin (Fan Wei) and Chang Juan (Zhou Dongyu), it tells about a beneficial marriage that "he asks for his son and she asks for money", and presents the ups and downs of life and human nature from a calm perspective. The film is adapted from the novel The Killing Girl in the Wedding Dress. The director Zhang Guoli said frankly that the story most moved him because of its solid story foundation and real characterization. He summarized the marriage relationship between Lao Qin and Chang Juan with "strong purpose". "Morning Clouds, Evening Rain" is by no means a romantic film. The greater the contrast between the two, the more obvious the dramatic conflict will be, and the more it can present the complex core of the film. Life has nothing else to do except life and death. Old Qin and Chang Juan run for life and death one by one, but they want to live well and die well. Just like our film title, fate and weather are as changeable as before, "he said, I try my best to record the fate of these two marginal people with a calm and objective lens, without whitewashing and judging.
In the recently concluded 14th Beijing International Film Festival, Fan Wei won the "Temple of Heaven Award" for the best actor for his role as Qin Lao, which is also the honor he won again after seven years. In order to get close to the character itself and present the image of the released felon, Fan Wei lost 30 kg during the shooting. Zhou Dongyu's biggest challenge in the film is to play Chang Juan as a vegetable in the later stage. For this reason, she went to the hospital two months in advance to get a close understanding of the real life of the vegetative people, and practiced eye movements repeatedly every day.
