Music and Life
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Release Year:
2009
Story:
The film spanned six years to chronicle the growth of the Hong Kong piano prodigy Huang Family in music and life. As a genius prodigy who went to the Czech Republic to perform with a professional symphony orchestra at the age of eleven, Huang Jiazheng has won numerous praises in Hong Kong. This achievement seems to be very complete in the eyes of others, but only he knows the loneliness and depression of the genius. Contradictions with siblings, estrangement with classmates, and disagreements with his father. This film describes Huang Jiazheng’s music career as well as the relationship between his relatives, mentor Luo Naixin, and others, portraying this child prodigy as an ordinary person. Child's side. The six-year mental journey has allowed the audience to see the transformation of Huang Jiazheng from an unruly gifted child to a mature teenager. The film has gained a great reputation in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The film won the 46th Golden Horse Awards for Best Editing, Best Sound Effects, and Best Documentary Awards in 2009, and the 16th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for Best Film in 2010.
The film spanned six years to chronicle the growth of the Hong Kong piano prodigy Huang Family in music and life. As a genius prodigy who went to the Czech Republic to perform with a professional symphony orchestra at the age of eleven, Huang Jiazheng has won numerous praises in Hong Kong. This achievement seems to be very complete in the eyes of others, but only he knows the loneliness and depression of the genius. Contradictions with siblings, estrangement with classmates, and disagreements with his father. This film describes Huang Jiazheng’s music career as well as the relationship between his relatives, mentor Luo Naixin, and others, portraying this child prodigy as an ordinary person. Child's side. The six-year mental journey has allowed the audience to see the transformation of Huang Jiazheng from an unruly gifted child to a mature teenager. The film has gained a great reputation in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The film won the 46th Golden Horse Awards for Best Editing, Best Sound Effects, and Best Documentary Awards in 2009, and the 16th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for Best Film in 2010.
Casts & Crews:
Zhang Jingwei
Directors
Runtime:
92
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Director‘s Statement:
I used to learn cello and dreamed of being Yoyo Ma. When I was 26 years old, I met a Japanese girl who played the violin and soon married her. From her, I understand what "talent" is... So, forget it, don't play the violin. When I was in college, I got into a movie. I met Huang Jiazheng for the first time in 2002. He was 11 years old and performed Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 with a Czech orchestra. I just like listening to him, it's charming. I have been listening and heard that he is now 17 years old. I envy him, he is a genius. But sometimes he is not happy.
Everything is bitter. It's hard to be a human; it's hard to live among all beings; it's hard to be an outstanding genius in society... it's even harder.
Su Dongpo sighed and said, "Everyone has children and hopes to be clever", but who doesn't want to be like the dragon mentioned by Cao Cao in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, "throwing out the clouds and flying in the universe"?
People-all people, because "I am born to be useful"-pull and pull in this contradiction, looking for our dreams and hopes.
Everything is bitter. It's hard to be a human; it's hard to live among all beings; it's hard to be an outstanding genius in society... it's even harder.
Su Dongpo sighed and said, "Everyone has children and hopes to be clever", but who doesn't want to be like the dragon mentioned by Cao Cao in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, "throwing out the clouds and flying in the universe"?
People-all people, because "I am born to be useful"-pull and pull in this contradiction, looking for our dreams and hopes.
Casts & Crews
Zhang Jingwei
Director
