"On the occasion of the Chinese New Year, everyone is in Berlin to participate in the film festival, special greetings and respects. I wish Chinese films better and better, I wish you good results, and I wish you a good New Year in Berlin!" On the other end of the phone, Zhang Hongsen said in an official tone.

Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu originally planned to go to the cinema to see Koji Wakamatsu's "Taro Worm", but the chairman of the film festival, Kosri, said that the heroine of this movie has a very strong performance and is Zhang Jingchu's biggest competitor, and Zhang Jingchu wants to see how strong this opponent is; Zhang Ran heard that this film is an anti-war movie about World War II, and he also wants to see how it is made.

However, as soon as he went downstairs, Zhang Ran received a call from Zhang Hongsen of the Film Bureau, expressing his condolences to all the members of "One Person's Lanterns" for the New Year abroad, and asking Zhang Ran to greet the Chinese filmmakers attending the Berlin Film Festival on behalf of the Film Bureau.

Zhang Ran was more familiar with Zhang Hongsen, and he spoke more casually, and joked: "Zhang Ju, are you preparing a manuscript? Why do you have the flavor of recitation!"

"Be serious, I'm talking to you on behalf of the organization!" But after saying this, Zhang Hongsen himself laughed and asked, "I heard that "One Man Puts on the Lights" won the highest score in Berlin, and this time it should be able to win the grand prize, right?"

Zhang Ran said without modesty: "It's not a big problem to win the award, but it's really hard to say whether you can win the award, the key depends on the judges." ”

Zhang Hongsen said with a smile: "This time, there are more than men in the judges, and there are their own people, so the chance of winning the award is much greater." ”

Zhang Ran didn't see it that way: "Yu Nan wants to take care of Wang Quanan's "Reunion", what kind of relationship is it?"

Zhang Hongsen said: "Aren't Yu Nan and Wang Quanan broken!"

Zhang Ran was stunned for a moment, and then laughed and said: "Zhang Ju, I didn't expect you to be so gossipy, usually about the end of the world, or about the eight groups of Douban?"

Zhang Hongsen also laughed: "You kid always likes to be nonsense, I won't tell you!"

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu walked all the way to the cinema where "Taro Worm" premiered. After entering the screening hall, Zhang Ran glanced at it and found that most of the audience present were men, so he couldn't help but smile and shook his head, Wakamatsu Takaji is one of the four major erotic film masters in Dongying, famous for making pink films, and many male audiences should be here for this.

One of the most striking features of Japanese anti-war films is that they like to express themselves from a female perspective. As the most direct victim of war, women often suffer far more than men.

The same is true of Koji Wakamatsu's film "Taro Worm", where the heroine Shigeko has to accept at the beginning of the film that her husband Kurokawa Kurokawa, who lost his limbs in the war, and the paradoxical thing is that this completely self-uncaring body is worshiped and admired by the Japanese government as the "god of war". Shigeko constantly oscillates between Kurokawa, the "god of war", and Kurokawa, a disabled person, until her illusory sense of glory is completely defeated by the cruel reality.

Kurokawa Hizo was originally a very strong man who often beat his wife, but now that he has lost his limbs, he is not only angry with his wife, but even forced to have sex by his wife. And at this time, Kurokawa Kuzo's eyes flashed many times with the painful face of the woman who was being ** by himself on the battlefield. The role switch from rape to rape makes Kurokawa experience the panic and helplessness of the victim, and Wakamatsu Koji wants to achieve a certain degree of empathy through this way, so that the film has a certain depth.

It can be said that the whole concept of the movie is quite good, but the director is too rough, and there are too many food and bed scenes in the movie, most of which are repetitive, and in addition to making people feel tired and depressed, they can't give people a great touch.

The movie has a lot of erotic content, and the heroine Shinobu Terashima also has nude scenes, but these contents bring the audience not fragrant stimulation, but extremely depressing, and even make people feel perverted. During the screening, the audience kept leaving, and the sound of the "popping" chair bouncing kept sounding, and the people who watched the movie with the pink film in their arms must have been disappointed.

After the movie ended, there was sparse applause at the scene, indicating everyone's attitude towards the movie.

When he was leaving, Zhang Ran saw Wang Wenjun, the reporter who interviewed him yesterday, stopped her, and asked, "Are you going to attend the press conference of "Taro Worm"?"

Wang Wenjun saw Zhang Ran calling himself, he was a little excited, was he going to do my interview, so he said: "I'm about to go to the press conference, Director Zhang, do you have anything?"

Zhang Ran said directly: "When you arrive at the press conference, you ask Koji Wakamatsu that this movie is to be anti-war, so why do you use the expression 'Japan-China War' in the opening subtitles of the movie?"

When Wang Wenjun heard Zhang Ran say this, he immediately laughed: "When I was watching the movie, I saw the term 'Japan-China War' and found it difficult to accept, and I planned to question it at the press conference, but I didn't expect you to ask me to ask this question." ”

Zhang Ran was stunned for a moment, and also smiled: "It seems that I have done something too much, so I won't bother you, hurry up and go to the press conference!"

Out of the cinema, Zhang Jingchu asked Zhang Ran: "What do you think of the heroine?"

Zhang Ran glanced at Zhang Jingchu and said deliberately: "The chest is big." He saw Zhang Jingchu glaring at him with murderous eyes, and hurriedly said: "Just kidding, Shinobu Terashima's performance is really strong, the whole performance level is clear, the degree of completion is also extremely high, and there is more nudity, as an actor, the sacrifice is relatively large, and it is indeed a very strong opponent." ”

Zhang Jingchu tilted her head to look at Zhang Ran and asked, "Then do you think we can win?"

Zhang Ran thought about it and gave a positive answer: "It is more difficult to perform than this role, and the completion is also very high, but from the perspective of performance, it must be better for us, but you also know that there are too many variables in winning awards at the film festival, so it is difficult to say." ”

Zhang Jingchu must be very eager to win the award, but she also knows very well that it is too difficult to say whether she can win the award, so she took Zhang Ran's arm and said with a smile: "It's enough to have your words, let's go shopping!"

In the evening, Zhang Ran and Zhang Jingchu were ready to attend the premiere of the film "In the Clouds", which was directed by Jason Reitman and led by George Clooney, which was enthusiastically sought after by the media and fans, and the premiere was crowded.

At the entrance, Zhang Ran saw Wang Wenjun, beckoned to her, and asked, "What did Wakamatsu Koji say?"

Wang Wenjun trotted over, said hello to Zhang Ran, and said with a smile: "After the press conference began, before I could ask a question, a Turkish reporter asked this question first, and he said that at the beginning of the film to describe the war with subtitles, the phrase 'Japan-China war' was used, which seemed to be that the two sides of the confrontation were in an equal state, but the actual situation was that Japan invaded China, is this title inappropriate?"

After being questioned, Koji Wakamatsu's attitude was still more sincere, he said, I didn't realize this before, but when I heard you say this, I immediately realized that this wording is indeed very inappropriate, and I regret using this wording in the opening credits. Koji Wakamatsu also said that the hero of the movie is not a hero, but a murderer, war is a collection of all kinds of murders, all wars are evil, Japan received the lessons of two atomic bombs in the war, but today's Japanese have begun to forget history, militaristic ideas have germinated again, and we must ensure that history will not repeat itself. ”

Zhang Ran is not surprised by this attitude of Koji Wakamatsu, who himself belongs to left-wing directors: "Many of the older generation of Japanese directors have experienced war, many of them are anti-war, and they have also made works with real courage and conscience such as "Proof of the World", but most of these old directors have passed away. However, after the Plaza Accord, Japan's economy stagnated, and the rightward drift of Japanese society became more and more serious, which was reflected in Japanese movies, which was manifested in downplaying the harm and introspection of the war, emphasizing that they were victims of the war, and always saying how miserable they were, but never thinking about why they were miserable. ”

Wang Wenjun nodded again and again: "Yes, now Japan has made a lot of movies that say that they are victims, saying that they are victims of the atomic bomb all day long, and making an attempt to make the United States apologize for the atomic bomb." We should make more films like the Jews and tell the world the truth!"

Zhang Ran didn't speak, just nodded silently, this is the sense of responsibility that every Chinese director should have!

During the screening of the movie, Zhang Ran kept looking at the screen and was distracted, but his mind was not on the movie, he remembered Zhang Chunru. After Zhang Chunru committed suicide in 04, Zhang Ran decided to make a movie about her. Five years have passed, and Zhang Ran has never figured out how to shoot this movie and how to shoot it.

However, in the past five years, Zhang Ran has not been idle, and has collected a lot of relevant information, and if the collected information does not increase by one point, his respect for Zhang Chunru will increase by one point. Every time he read the information about the massacre, Zhang Ran would feel uncomfortable for a few days, and the feeling of powerlessness and despair would linger in his heart for a long time. Men are still like this, what courage it takes for a weak woman to face the darkest chapter in human history!

Zhang Ran remembered that Zhang Chunru had gone to Germany to find Rabe's descendants and persuaded them to bring "Rabe's Diary" back to life. He felt that since he had arrived in Germany, he should also go and meet Rabe's descendants and talk to them.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ran told Zhang Jingchu that he wouldn't watch it, and Zhang Jingchu asked more questions, and followed him out of the cinema.

Standing at the intersection, Zhang Ran dialed the phone number of the festival's president, Dieter Koslick: "I want to ask you for a favor, can you help me find out where Mr. Chacharabe's grave is and where are his descendants?"

Koslick heard Rabe and asked, "Rabe, do you mean the Rabe who wrote Rabe's Diary?"

Zhang Ran replied: "Yes, it is the Rabe who wrote "Rabe's Diary". ”

Koslick once talked to Flory Gallenberg, the director of "Rabe's Diary", about the preparation of the film, and he really knew a little about Rabe's situation, saying: "I don't know where Rabe's grave is, it seems to be on the outskirts of the city, but I have heard Rabe's descendants say that Rabe's grandson seems to be working as a medicine in Heidelberg." In this way, I will help you contact Rabe's descendants. I'll call you when I'm ready. ”

With Koslick's help, it must be much better than Zhang Ran looking for someone with a black eye, and said gratefully: "Thank you, Dieter, then I'll wait for your news!"

Koslick was just about to hang up the phone when a question suddenly came to mind: "Are you going to make a film about the Holocaust?"

Zhang Ran did not hide it: "I plan to make a biopic of Zhang Chunru, the author of "Nanjing Atrocities: The Forgotten Massacre", and "Rabe's Diary" was unearthed by her. ”

Koslick immediately said: "This biopic of Zhang Chunru is booked in Berlin, and such a film is the most suitable in Berlin." ”

The Berlin Film Festival is the most political of the three, and Zhang Chunru's biopic is indeed the most suitable in Berlin. Zhang Ran couldn't help laughing: "The content involved in the movie is too heavy, I'm not ready now, I won't shoot it in the short term, it may take five or ten years to shoot!"

Koslick laughed, "I'm sure you'll shoot it, and you'll shoot it well!"

Zhang Ran looked up at the cloudy sky, and said softly: "Yes, no matter how long it takes, I will definitely make this movie, and it will definitely be filmed well, and some people should always be remembered by us!"

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