EXPERIMENT. SCREEN. SENSATION
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Introduction:
In 1999, Shen Tao fell into a triangle with the young people Zhang Jinsheng and Liang Jianjun. She finally chose Zhang Jinsheng. Liang Jianjun could only leave.
In 2014, Shen Tao and Zhang Jinsheng divorced, Zhang Jinsheng remarried with his son Dollar. They went to Shanghai to live. On the other way, Liang Jianjun returned to his hometown because of terminal illness, Liang Jianjun’s wife in desperation to find Shen Tao borrow money to cure the disease. As Shen Tao’s father died, Dollar returned to Fuyang to attend the funeral. Shen Tao deeply felt his son’s change, knowing that he could not stay with him, but giving him the key to his home.
In Australia in 2025, Dollar grew up. He studied at a Chinese school, meeting a teacher. And then they had a love for the past. Although Dollar has always had the key that his mother gave him, he couldn’t remember the mother’s name. He only recalled that she called Tao, the meaning of the waves.
Colour
The film uses a large number of fixed long shots to tell calmly and objectively tell the story of that era and the people in those times. In this film, the director expresses the emotions of the protagonist in color. The director used a prop to externalize the character’s emotions, namely Shen Tao’s coat. When she likes YU Jinsheng, she wears a red jacket, and red is the color of the Jinsheng car, and also the color of the Jinsheng sweater. And when she likes Liang Zi, she was wearing a blue coat, the color of Liang Zi’s coat, which showed that her heart was in him, indicating that her heart is on him. The film is unique in visual processing. In addition to the contrast, as mentioned above between red and blue, the use of green in the movie is also very SPECIAL. In real life, green represents vitality. In one scene, green is the chain on LIANGZI key, and it is a desire for survival. Another view is the slow-moving green leather train, which gives Shen Tao a deep affection for his son. Finally, in this green gentleness, they found their own life and emotions.