The film " Life Events " tells the story of the third brother of a funeral director who was released from prison and met the orphan Wu Xiaowen during a funeral, and the story unexpectedly changed his views on his career and life.
Han Yan, who serves as director for the first time, previously directed "Get Out!" "Tumor King" and "Send You a Little Red Flower" both involve the topic of life and death, and "Life Events" are exactly the same. Han Yan said that he has gradually understood the truth since he started: "The theme of my writing is very simple, the cycle of life and death. When I first entered college, the first sentence of the teacher's first class to us was 'Every director actually only makes one movie in his life.' I can change to different genres, but in my heart I have a deep understanding of this thing. The cognitive ability is stable. As long as the original intention changes, the cognitive ability for this topic will not change. "
Although it is his first time as a director, he still writes "Life Events" as his own movie. His artistic creation reflects many of his thoughts on daily life and life in recent years, and even continues with his experience in "Send You a Little Red Flower".
While filming "A Little Red Flower for You", Han Yan thought more than once whether the creator should suppress his emotions in such a themed movie. But in "Life Events", he put aside "inhibition" because in this movie, there is a very important character - the orphan Wu Xiaowen played by child star Yang En again. It is difficult for adults to express emotional restraint with children, so from producers to actors, during the filming of "Life Events", everything was based on Yang Enyou. "In the purest state, all her performances are sincere and genuine, with a special sense of depth."
When she was around thirty years old, Han Yan filmed "Get Out!" Tumor King". At that time, he was similar to Xiong Dun and . He tried to integrate his own experience of the world at that time into the character: "The understanding of life and death at that time, I think, is to face it calmly and be optimistic. This is something I learned from Xiong Dun. Point, she gave me another attitude towards death." A few years later, as he grew up and changed with his children, he began to think and observe more from the perspective of his parents, so when filming "Send You a Little Red Flower", "I chose to make the true feelings bigger."
In "Life Events", he, who is close to forty years old, has an improved understanding of life and death. He incorporates the conclusion he has thought about in recent years - "the topic of love for strangers" into it, and continues to discuss the meaning and value of life through life and death.
