synopsis
Teenager Zou Qiao refuses to recognize his father's death and leaves home to roam the city. After a long period of wandering both physically and mentally, he finally finds a way to say goodbye to his father.
The Dogfather.
创作阐述
As the saying goes, "A tiger's father has no son". What kind of children does the "canine father" have? What does the son think of his "canine father"? Does he try to get rid of his influence at all costs, or does he respect his legacy? In the midst of such shocks, the father changes into different images and the son keeps growing up. This story comes from my own experience of losing my father when I was 15 years old. My father had been my idol, and his sudden death left me disoriented, and it took me a long time to find my own meaning in life. A decade later, I gradually learned more about my father from my mother, and the aura of idolatry had faded. But some of the values he taught me still tugged at me, and his destructible personality seemed to influence me. He still seems to exist, in an abstract form. With this movie, I hope to honor my father and, truly, say goodbye to him.
故事大纲
Teenager Zou Qiao just finished the college entrance examination, was received by his mother to attend his father's funeral at the funeral parlor. Zouqiao could not believe what was in front of him. When reciting the eulogy, he suddenly lost his voice and fled the funeral parlor in shame. The funeral was not completed, his father's ashes stranded in the funeral parlor. The next day, Zou Qiao went to the boxing gym to take away his father's living gloves and rampaged through the city. When his mother searched for him, he went to his father's lover, Auntie Pan's mahjong parlor. Auntie Pan tells Zou Qiao that his father did not die of illness, but committed suicide by throwing himself into the river, and Zou Qiao whimpers at the news. At night by the canal, Zouqiao saw his father's phantom walking from the water, and could not sleep. The next day, Zouqiao summoned the courage to go to the funeral parlor and take out the ashes. With the help of a cosplay girl, Chunli, Zouqiao buries his father in a hidden cave by the West Lake. Memories of his father also emerged. It was the summer when Zou Qiao was ten years old, Zou Jiantang was owed accounts and debts, and spent the whole day hanging out in mahjong parlors. The mother went back to her mother's home to divorce, father and son dependent on each other. When he went to the hospital for a checkup, his father found a shadow on his lungs and knew that his days were numbered. So he took Zouqiao to practice boxing every day, hoping that the son into a tiger. After a boxing, father and son bathing together. Suddenly, the father in front of the small Zou bridge into a puddle of water, as if a dream. Woke up in a dream, Zou bridge over the years, and Chunli married. Chunli is pregnant with a fetus, but in the examination found that the fetus has a high chance of deformity. Zouqiao devotes himself to the development of an artificial intelligence boxer to ease his suffering. He spends his days practicing and talking with the virtual boxer in the VR world, telling the story of his father. The virtual boxer, who has been listening, gradually becomes more and more like his father. Late one night, the virtual boxer comes out of the VR world and appears in front of him in his father's likeness. The two of them start a boxing match, hitting, dodging and hugging each other in the empty laboratory, and it is hard to distinguish between them. This is also the final farewell between father and son.
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typology：
Drama｜Youth｜Suspense -
director (film etc)：
Sung Qiu, director of US State Department's Korea office
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cinematographer：
Sung Qiu, director of US State Department's Korea office -
moviemaker：
HAN TIAN｜DONG HE｜WANG HUAN (Hong Kong, China)