The giant screen in the school auditorium lit up and the film was ready to start.
This version of the film is slightly different from the one shown in cinemas. A background music piece is added before the film starts, which is the school song of the University of Finance and Economics.
A familiar voice sounded, and the huge auditorium fell silent in an instant.
——I would like to use this film to congratulate my alma mater on its 70th anniversary and to commemorate a generation.
Dark curtains and white words.
A dense list of names began to flow, it was a list of alumni from all generations since the resumption of the college entrance examination.
A solemn and dignified aura quietly spread.
There is no opening animation.
The DreamWorks scene was cut out, leaving only four big words.
director.
Lu Hao.
Then, the film officially begins.
The first picture is a high-end, classy, high-rise conference room with floor-to-ceiling windows.
From the exterior shots, it is clearly visible that it is the United States, Times Square, Wall Street, the Statue of Liberty... After a circle, it returns to the conference room.
Three Chinese people with yellow skin and black hair are having a meeting with a group of foreigners.
The two sides argued fiercely.
Judging from the content of the dispute, it was the US that accused China of infringement.
The infringing content is the copyright of TOEFL test teaching materials.
Because too many Chinese students received incredibly high scores in the TOEFL exam, they suspected that China had stolen genuine textbooks and test question banks, and demanded high punitive damages.
Among the three leading actors, Cheng Dongqing, played by Lu Hao, is now dressed in a suit and tie, with shiny hair, looking like a successful man.
He took out a book of legal texts in English from his bag, which contained the precedents and relevant regulations of the World Intellectual Property Organization on intellectual property disputes.
Cheng Dongqing handed a thick book of professional laws to the American representatives.
"These are the relevant legal provisions regarding this case. Please point out any one."
The American representative was stunned for a moment, but still turned a page casually.
Cheng Dongqing immediately began to recite in detail, word by word, clearly and accurately.
Finished memorizing.
The US representatives were shocked.
Here comes another one.
Or, recite the whole text.
Wang Yang and Meng Xiaojun began to show the smug smile of successfully pretending to be cool and then getting slapped in the face.
As for all the American representatives, they looked at each other in disbelief.
This operation is really scary.
Even a professional lawyer might not be able to memorize all the difficult and obscure legal provisions and long paragraphs of professional terms, and a Chinese person teaching English...
Cheng Dongqing stood up.
"I memorized this book word by word on the plane coming to the United States."
"Among all the Chinese students, my qualifications can only be considered mediocre. You can't imagine how good Chinese students are at taking exams, and how much hard work and effort they put in to pass them."
“You don’t understand China.”
"The world is constantly changing, but you remain the same, gentlemen. A person, a company, or a country will not die from weakness, but will surely die from arrogance and ignorance."
…
This flashback plot can be regarded as a classic and refreshing plot.
From suppression to release, and then to the sublimation of the theme, it is done in one go and quickly draws people into the story.
The audience's attention was also completely attracted.
Lu Hao noticed from the corner of his eye that the big guys sitting next to him didn't seem to be interested.
Too.
For them, such a plot may be too low and not real at all.
Real business negotiations are definitely not like this.
But, the movie...
Just a story.
…
The scene changed and a song with a sense of age began to sound.
The timeline goes back to twenty years ago.
Cheng Dongqing kowtowed to his mother and every production team leader in the village, begging for another chance to take the college entrance examination.
"oh?"
The second big man on the left, who was wearing gold-rimmed glasses, couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
It’s actually about college students in the 1970s?
He couldn't help but turn his head and look at Lu Hao.
I originally watched this movie just to give face to my alma mater and didn't have any expectations for the film itself.
After all, the director is a young man, and the story he is filming should also be about young people.
But they didn't expect that it was the story of their generation when they were young.
Suddenly it felt a bit interesting.
The film plays out scene by scene, from going to college, to learning English, queuing for hot water, poetry recitation... each scene fully restores the college life of that era.
From time to time, someone could hear a soft laugh.
Not everyone is eighteen, but there is always someone who is eighteen.
And those eighteen-year-old years, although the material conditions experienced by each generation are different, the core is the same.
A beautiful desire for the future.
Chatting and laughing.
Point out the way forward and write inspiring words.
The restless hormones and the stupid things done for the girl.
Scene after scene.
They are deeply rooted in people's hearts.
The era shown in the film, when everyone dreamed of going abroad, now seems more like a grand display of confusing collectivist behavior.
Standing on the tide of history and looking back, we can more clearly see what has happened in China and what has happened among young people in the past 30 years.
Although there are still people who want to study abroad, more people are willing to come back.
Even the competitiveness of returnees in the job market is gradually decreasing.
From the story line of the protagonist Cheng Dongqing, we can see that the entire country is changing with each passing day, as if it were an earth-shaking change.
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