After appointing a temporary agent, Shang Yechu returned to her hectic filming schedule.
Xiao Yue's role wasn't very big, and today they finally filmed the last scene. After filming this scene, Shang Yechu's filming for "The Mute Woman" wrapped up.
This scene is also a crucial one that requires Shang Yechu to unleash her acting skills.
This scene depicts the death of Yongfu.
Xiao Yue's loved ones pass away one after another, and each time, Shang Yechu needs to portray different emotions. Pinghua died from a long illness, and Xiao Yue was already mentally prepared; her grief needed to be expressed calmly, blankly, with a gentle, flowing sorrow. She learned of Yongjuan's death later; times had changed, and Xiao Yue felt less grief and more wistful. The death of the mute woman was the last scene in the film, and Shang Yechu didn't need to act it out.
The death of Yongfu is the most complex, profound, and difficult to portray.
Shortly after Xiaoyue finished her college entrance exams, Yongfu's hands were caught in a machine, his arms were severed, and he fell into extreme self-loathing and despair, spending his days in tears. The entire family was shrouded in deep grief.
Xiao Yue, who had never lifted a finger to do housework or farm work, was forced to start doing chores and farm work for her father. She did a terrible job, caught between household chores and her increasingly mentally unstable mute mother, struggling to cope and becoming exhausted.
Yongfu witnessed this, which only intensified his pain.
Xiaoyue's college entrance exam results came out, and it was an extremely high score, enough to give her a bright future. This small family, whose life had been filled with hardship, finally experienced a brief moment of joy. But after the joy, deeper pain followed.
Xiaoyue's scores were high enough for her to get into a top university in a distant city, which had always been her dream. But now Yongfu has lost the ability to take care of himself, and the whole family cannot do without Xiaoyue's care. In other words, Xiaoyue is basically unable to move around at all.
The tug-of-war between ideals and reality nearly broke Xiao Yue; her face was filled with obvious sorrow as she lingered before her father.
Yongfu witnessed all of this.
Is it better to abandon one's family for a distant ideal, or to betray one's ideal for the sake of a small family?
It's time to make a decision.
Yongfu made this choice for his daughter.
One evening, as the sun was setting, Yongfu, taking advantage of Xiaoyue's absence, slipped off the kang (a heated brick bed), stepped over the filthy chamber pot, walked through the garbage, and arrived at the small cabinet where miscellaneous items were stored.
Xiao Yue hadn't been involved in household affairs for a long time and didn't know what was in the cabinet. But Yong Fu did.
Yongfu plopped down on the ground, used his foot to open the cabinet door, reached out a bottle of pesticide, and then used his teeth and severed arm to laboriously open the bottle cap.
It's time to make a decision.
Yongfu, with the pesticide bottle in his mouth, drank it all in one gulp. Not satisfied with just that, he even licked the pesticide residue that had spilled onto the ground.
By the time Xiaoyue returned home, it was all over.
Yongfu lay on the ground, his expression ferocious, his eyes tightly closed.
Perhaps in his final moments, he was in extreme pain. Yet, strangely, he passed away peacefully. Because he was no longer a burden to his daughter, and because he was finally able to end his life of suffering.
What were Xiaoyue's feelings when she saw her father's body?
Sadness? Despair? Heartbroken? Pain? Shock? Bewilderment? Silence? Emptiness? Or was it expected?
Is there even a little bit of relief?
This feeling was too deep, and its components too complex. Shang Yechu studied the script for several days, bothered the entire crew from Teacher Qi Ming to the actor Yongfu, and communicated with the original author several times, but still wasn't confident that she could perform well.
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