Director Jia Zhangke’s latest work “Swimming Until the Sea Turns Blue” released a trailer on September 1st and announced that it will be screened nationwide on September 19th. In the trailer, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong respectively use different writers’ perspectives to elaborately describe their personal memories and evoke the audience’s deep emotions.
The film focuses on Chinese contemporary literary masters in social changes, using their open-hearted sharing and personal memories as an emotional index to show the changes in Chinese society in the past 70 years. In the trailer, Jia Pingwa talked about his “lifelong happiness and lifelong pain”, Liang Hong recalled the difficult lives of his relatives, and Yu Hua shared his experience of swimming in the sea as a child, leading to the title “Swimming Until the Sea Turns Blue” . Several writers generously shared their private emotional stories.
“I have always wanted to make a film that can tell the Chinese people’s minds.” Director Jia Zhangke said, “I hope to talk about the minds of several generations of Chinese through the relay expression of the four generations of writers. The personal affairs of the four writers. For each of us, memory is like an emotional index. We can follow this clue, and finally swim into our own emotional sea.”
Previously, “Swimming Until the Sea Turns Blue” was screened at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival and many other domestic and foreign film festivals, and received a strong response. At the same time, the film tells the historical changes with poetic literary memory, which arouses the emotional resonance of the first batch of audiences in China. (Reporter Zhang Xiaojuan)
[作者: 责任编辑: 杨丹宇 ]
