Chapter 698 Little Shoes

The premiere of this public welfare film was not as lively as the premieres Lin Fan had attended before. There was no red carpet walk, and even the premiere ceremony was a friendly and down-to-earth model like cutting the ribbon.

Of course, because Lin Fan was there, Lin Fan’s friends made time to come to the premiere, and by the way, they also helped Lin Fan support and promote his work.

Similarly, Lin Fan’s fans were no less enthusiastic, and the group of them made the entire premiere very lively.

Especially when Lin Fan was called up to the stage to cut the ribbon, the audience was almost laughing like crazy, and one by one they took out their phones, some took photos, some recorded videos, capturing Lin Fan's ribbon-cutting moment, which would probably never happen again.

After cutting the ribbon and returning to the audience, Lin Fan could still hear Xia Yan and Hui Qiaodan sharing the photos they had taken with each other.

"This one looks great, I want this one, and this one, I want this one too! Sister Hui, you are such a great photographer!"

"I've sent them all to you! I've practiced my photography skills specially. If you have any good photos, send me a copy too!"

"No problem! I still have some photos of Lin Fan that I took of him. Are you interested, Sister Hui?"

"It was captured!" Hui Qiaodan's eyes lit up instantly. "Yes, yes, yes! Just a quick question, are you wearing your clothes?"

Xia Yan was so embarrassed that she wanted to hit someone: "Sister Hui, what nonsense are you talking about!"

Lin Fan, who was ignored, said: "...Yanyan, Sister Hui, the movie is about to start!"

Why does it feel so embarrassing to have two women praise my photos in front of me and share them with each other?

Fortunately, the movie was about to start, otherwise Lin Fan was really worried that if the two women continued talking, some scenes that were not suitable for children would appear.

The lights in the cinema dimmed, and only the light from the big screen was reflected on the faces of every audience member.

The audience gradually quieted down and focused their eyes on the big screen. After a light and pleasant background music, a black background with a few sparse blue-green lines appeared on the big screen. It seemed as if an invisible hand was holding a piece of chalk and writing the name of the movie on it stroke by stroke:

"Little Shoes"! Then, the movie directly cuts into the scene where the movie officially begins.

A small pink shoe was held by a pair of rough big hands and pressed on a piece of cloth on the knee. One side of the shoe was torn, and the big hands were using a worn brush to apply glue to fill the torn area, and then using needle and thread to sew up the crack.

As the movie started, there was silence, and as the shoe was being repaired, noisy sounds began to be heard. But everyone could hear them clearly, and those sounds were a little far away, as if they came from outside.

The camera of the movie was always focused on this small space. The whole picture was not dark, but it was not bright either. The rough hands and the owner of these hands, with obviously rough clothes on his body, only the pair of pink shoes were the brightest color in the whole picture.

Lin Fan didn't say anything, nor did he let the characters in the story speak for themselves. With just this one scene, he portrayed the background of the entire story for all the audience.

Hui Qiaodan, who had come with the intention of supporting Lin Fan, watched the two-minute shoe repair scene and felt as if something had struck her heart.

At this time, the camera finally left this small space and presented the entire picture to the audience: a narrow and dilapidated shoe repair shop, a skilled shoemaker, and a little boy sitting aside waiting for his shoes to be repaired.

The atmosphere of the city and the countryside came all at once. The story began in such a scene.

The protagonist of the story is none other than this little boy.

Because the family was poor, the sister had only one pair of shoes, which she needed to wear to school every day. However, the shoes were broken, so the boy brought his sister's only pair of shoes to be repaired.

The shoes were repaired quickly, and the boy stuffed the shoes into a black plastic bag and left the shoe repair shop.

Because his mother had told him to buy some vegetables on the way back when he went out, the boy put the things in his hands, including the bag containing his sister's shoes, at the door of the vegetable stall and went to buy vegetables.

But at this time, an old man who was collecting rubbish came to the door, mistook the black plastic bag for garbage and took it away.

When the boy came out after buying vegetables, he found that his shoes were missing. He searched everywhere, but no matter how hard he looked, he couldn't find the shoes. Instead, he knocked over the vegetable basket, causing the fresh vegetables to scatter all over the floor, and was chased away by the vegetable stall owner.

The boy who lost his shoes returned home frustrated and scared. When he was about to tell his mother about it, he heard his mother arguing with the landlord.

The landlord asked the mother to pay the rent quickly and even wanted to kick them out. But how could the family have extra money to move in? The mother had a back injury and could not do heavy work. The burden of the family's life fell on the father alone. The boy also had to help with housework and take care of his sister every day.

My sister’s pair of shoes has actually been repaired many times, but because the family has no money to buy new ones, they can only be repaired again and again.

But now he has lost his sister's only pair of shoes. How can the boy bear to tell this to his sick mother and add to his father's burden?

So, the boy hid the matter from his mother.

However, when he returned home and looked at his expectant sister, the boy confessed that he had lost his shoes.

When the father returned home in the evening, he began to scold the boy again, saying that he was already 9 years old and was no longer a child, and asked him to help his mother more in the future.

As their parents talked, the boy and his sister communicated by writing in pencil in a notebook.

My sister said she didn’t have shoes and couldn’t go to school tomorrow.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

The boy asked his sister to wear his shoes to school. After school, his sister returned the shoes to him and then went to school.

In order to get his sister to promise him not to tell their parents about this, the boy gave his new pencil to his sister.

In this place, the country where the original film is set, boys and girls go to school separately, so their swapping of shoes to use separately requires no explanation.

But Lin Fan moved the background of this story to China, so a little more settings are needed here.

In Lin Fan's setting, there is only one primary school near the village where the boy's family lives. The number of teachers is limited, and it is impossible to teach all the children at the same time, so the class time is divided into two periods: morning and afternoon.

In the morning, students from grades one to three attend classes, and in the afternoon, students from grades four to six attend classes. This makes the action of the brother and sister exchanging shoes practical.

For this change, Lin Fan also consulted the film's special consultant, A Gang. A Gang confirmed that their school also has separate classes, but not in the morning and afternoon. Instead, when the lower grade students are in class, the higher grade students study on their own, and vice versa.

The reason is very simple, because there are not so many teachers.

Therefore, Lin Fan’s setting does not seem abrupt.

Of course, for some viewers who don't know the situation, there are still some doubts: "Is this how all children in mountainous areas go to school?"

Someone nearby explained, "Not always. It depends on the specific situation. Some schools in mountainous areas may only have one teacher. In that case, he or she will teach one class to the older students, and then teach one class to the younger students, taking turns.

Sometimes the teacher can't teach, for example, because he is sick or out for some reason, so he will pick a good student from the senior class to teach the junior class. In short, morning and afternoon classes do exist."

The people who had doubts got the explanation, and the bystanders also listened to it. However, after hearing these words, when they watched the movie again, they couldn't help but have an indescribable feeling.

My nose feels a little sour, my eyes feel a little dry, and my throat feels a little tight.

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