An adaptation of Liu Zhenyun’s award-winning novel One Sentence Worth Ten Thousand, produced by Bill Kong. The novel, which won the Mao Dun Literature Prize after it was published in 2008, revolves around a divorced woman and her married younger brother and deals with loneliness and alienation in contemporary Chinese society. The film marks the feature debut of award-winning short filmmaker Liu Yulin, who is adapting her father’s work. A New York University film graduate, Liu’s short film Door God (2014) won a silver medal at the 41st Student Academy Awards and was selected by Cannes.
Li Xuelian y su marido Qin Yuhe organizan un falso divorcio para obtener un segundo apartamento. Pero seis meses más tarde, él se volverá a casar con otra mujer. Entonces Li, llena de ira, presenta una demanda que perderá, ya que en su momento cumplieron con todos los procedimientos legales. Además, Qin ahora la acusa de haber sido impura en su noche de bodas. Diez años después, Li emprende un viaje a la capital durante el Congreso Nacional del Pueblo, con el objetivo de completar su absurdo periplo de una década por el hijo que no tuvo.
Written by Liu Zhenyun, based on his own novel of the same title, the film revolves around two successful men whose marriages were wrecked when their wives uncovered their extramarital affairs through traces left in their cellphones. More broadly, the film explores the role of cellphones in interpersonal relationships in modern China, where the rapid development in information technology is having huge impacts on the way people communicate.
Four friends come up with an unusual idea to make some money and have fun doing it. For a small fee, they will impersonate and act out any character role for their customers. In the course of executing this novel service, they encounter a whole spectrum of people in society, finding ways to genuinely help them boost their morale and overcome their fears, while gaining unusual and new insights into the human condition.
