Brave Father
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Release Year:
2007
Story:
In 2002, Han Peiyin's son, Han Shengli, was admitted to a university in Xi'an and came to the city from the countryside. In order to let Shengli go to school, Lao Han sold all the valuables in his family and went to work in Xi'an to help his son solve the living expenses of the university and the tuition fees for the coming year. Old Han, who has been a farmer for a lifetime, firmly believes that knowledge will change his destiny. He optimistically hopes that his son will be successful in the future when he goes to university. There are more and more people coming to work in the city, and the job is getting harder and harder to find. It's not bad to earn 400 yuan a month, but victory requires 9,000 yuan in tuition every year. Lao Han lives in a place where he lives for one dollar a night without a pillow. He sleeps on a brick every day; his son Shengli thinks about what he can eat after class every day. At the same time, he stares at the mineral water bottle in the hands of his classmates and wants to sell it. Victory is about to graduate. He is introverted and faced with strong employment pressure. He feels that the city is getting farther and farther away. He who has gone to college is likely to earn less than his father. Lao Han carried a notebook with him, which was filled with the loan records of ten yuan and twenty yuan in the past three years, and his expectations of his son's victory: "My son's victory will be around 2013, that is, his father's six Around the age of ten, I took our family to Beijing to play for a few days. At that time, we were all rich..."
In 2002, Han Peiyin's son, Han Shengli, was admitted to a university in Xi'an and came to the city from the countryside. In order to let Shengli go to school, Lao Han sold all the valuables in his family and went to work in Xi'an to help his son solve the living expenses of the university and the tuition fees for the coming year. Old Han, who has been a farmer for a lifetime, firmly believes that knowledge will change his destiny. He optimistically hopes that his son will be successful in the future when he goes to university. There are more and more people coming to work in the city, and the job is getting harder and harder to find. It's not bad to earn 400 yuan a month, but victory requires 9,000 yuan in tuition every year. Lao Han lives in a place where he lives for one dollar a night without a pillow. He sleeps on a brick every day; his son Shengli thinks about what he can eat after class every day. At the same time, he stares at the mineral water bottle in the hands of his classmates and wants to sell it. Victory is about to graduate. He is introverted and faced with strong employment pressure. He feels that the city is getting farther and farther away. He who has gone to college is likely to earn less than his father. Lao Han carried a notebook with him, which was filled with the loan records of ten yuan and twenty yuan in the past three years, and his expectations of his son's victory: "My son's victory will be around 2013, that is, his father's six Around the age of ten, I took our family to Beijing to play for a few days. At that time, we were all rich..."
Casts & Crews:
Li Junhu
Directors
Runtime:
48
minutes
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"Brave Father" exhibition and awards
※ Won the Best Short Film of the 2nd Hong Kong Chinese Documentary Film Festival (2009)
※ Shortlisted for the 20th French Feipa International TV Festival (2008)
※ Screening at the 1st British Vientiane Film Festival (2009)
※ Screening at the 2nd Vancouver New Asia Film Festival (2009)
https://movie.douban.com/subject/2347397/reviews
"Brave Father" exhibition and awards
※ Won the Best Short Film of the 2nd Hong Kong Chinese Documentary Film Festival (2009)
※ Shortlisted for the 20th French Feipa International TV Festival (2008)
※ Screening at the 1st British Vientiane Film Festival (2009)
※ Screening at the 2nd Vancouver New Asia Film Festival (2009)
https://movie.douban.com/subject/2347397/reviews
Director‘s Statement:
Money is a heavy word, especially when life is full of borrowing money and debt repayment, its heaviness even exceeds itself. Some people use mineral water to wash their faces and rinse their mouths to quench their thirst, some people use their picked bottles to sell money to fill their stomachs, just as some people can easily go to university while others need to change their properties to ensure they complete their studies.
Han Peiyin went to work in the city with hope: because his son Han Shengli was in college. This is why Lao Han can live optimistically with debts. Lao Han firmly believes that victory will have a different future. Longing is a kind of behavior that will happen to everyone who has hope. When you feel that you are getting closer to the vision you are looking for, all difficulties are not called difficulties because you feel that there is something ahead. A good one, you don't believe it may be worse than you think, and you can't accept that it is actually just a mirage-like phantom. When Shengli whispered in his mouth while looking at the sky in the distance on the top of the teaching building, I thought I could stay here, it could even give people the illusion that all of this was a matter of course.
Living a better life is everyone’s wish, unless you feel that your current life is good enough. The victory of going to university in the city led to a difficult and embarrassing study life. At the same time, he deeply realized the superior conditions of the city compared to the countryside. Staying in the city was his greatest wish and his father's wish.
"Before 2013, at that time, we all had money. We have to go to Beijing to have a few days, and we must have a few days of fun..." When Han Peiyin looked forward to the future, victory was exhausted and desperate. To this scene he confided the words that he could not directly explain to his father: "If he can't accept it, he has to accept it. He also has to face the reality. The reality is like this."
In a prosperous dream, you think it’s within reach but you are actually out of it. When a belief that you have always believed in since childhood suddenly fails at a certain moment, you suddenly realize that things are not like this. What attitude would you choose?
Father Han Peiyin accepted this unacceptable reality! We should pay tribute to this brave father!
Han Peiyin went to work in the city with hope: because his son Han Shengli was in college. This is why Lao Han can live optimistically with debts. Lao Han firmly believes that victory will have a different future. Longing is a kind of behavior that will happen to everyone who has hope. When you feel that you are getting closer to the vision you are looking for, all difficulties are not called difficulties because you feel that there is something ahead. A good one, you don't believe it may be worse than you think, and you can't accept that it is actually just a mirage-like phantom. When Shengli whispered in his mouth while looking at the sky in the distance on the top of the teaching building, I thought I could stay here, it could even give people the illusion that all of this was a matter of course.
Living a better life is everyone’s wish, unless you feel that your current life is good enough. The victory of going to university in the city led to a difficult and embarrassing study life. At the same time, he deeply realized the superior conditions of the city compared to the countryside. Staying in the city was his greatest wish and his father's wish.
"Before 2013, at that time, we all had money. We have to go to Beijing to have a few days, and we must have a few days of fun..." When Han Peiyin looked forward to the future, victory was exhausted and desperate. To this scene he confided the words that he could not directly explain to his father: "If he can't accept it, he has to accept it. He also has to face the reality. The reality is like this."
In a prosperous dream, you think it’s within reach but you are actually out of it. When a belief that you have always believed in since childhood suddenly fails at a certain moment, you suddenly realize that things are not like this. What attitude would you choose?
Father Han Peiyin accepted this unacceptable reality! We should pay tribute to this brave father!
Casts & Crews
Li Junhu
Director
