2024, early spring.

Although the crew has been very low-key from the beginning, director Zeng Sheng and Zhiguo's younger brother Bao Shiyi have collaborated again, and the news about the movie has been endless.

Especially Bao Shiyi's fans found that they don't know when it started, Bao Shiyi is no longer in a hurry to write stories as before, and Liucheng Publishing House has no news of Bao Shiyi's new book.

At the opening ceremony of the movie "The Undertaker", reporters and media came a lot, but just as the news media said that the name of the movie "The Undertaker" alone has made netizens guess that this story is about the undertaker, the story of death.

Such a heavy, sad topic is clearly the story that Bao Shiyi, a master of tragedy, excels at.

"Eleven, the story of "The Undertaker" was written by you as the screenwriter and written by yourself, and now you are also the starring role, netizens say that this story must be another tragedy, what do you say?"

For the reporter's question, Bao 11 did not have any surprises.

Zeng Sheng, who was sitting next to Bao Shiyi, turned his head to look at Bao Shiyi, in fact, he had talked to Bao Shiyi about the movie "The Undertaker" before this.

Because Bao Shiyi is the screenwriter of this movie and the starring role of this movie, although Zeng Sheng, as a director, has his own ideas in his heart, he also hopes to understand Bao Shiyi's views on the shooting of this movie.

Bao Shiyi took the microphone, looked at the reporter, smiled, and said: ""The Undertaker is about a profession, this profession can make people afraid, but it is also a very sacred profession, so that those who are separated from their beloved relatives can see their most beautiful last side, this is what the undertaker needs to do, treat a corpse with respect and etiquette for people." ”

"As for what this movie is about, I think you will know when the movie is released and go to the cinema to watch it, and everyone should have a different feeling after watching it. ”

Zeng Sheng took Bao Shiyi's words and said with a smile: "What I want to say is that death here is no longer cold and terrifying, but quiet, peaceful, gentle and beautiful, which is why I took over this movie." ”

Listening to Zeng Sheng's words, Bao Shiyi couldn't help but shake his head in his heart, he wrote this script because of the neurotic system, in its opinion, death is death, and the so-called gentleness and beauty are things after death.

For the man who died, it was just cold.

The media reporter interviewed the main creators of the movie, and then the film officially began shooting.

As for netizens and the media and their curiosity and doubts, they will know when the movie is released.

……

Because it is an old team, they are all acquaintances, and the partners are very familiar with the shooting, and it doesn't take too much time to integrate.

Behind the monitor, Zeng Sheng looked at Bao 11 on the screen, who was playing the cello on the field.

At the moment when that voice sounded, the entire set gradually fell silent. Although it was said that when the official filming began, the crew should have kept quiet, but now it is different from the quiet.

Bao Shiyi sat on the field, with the early spring field and the green field behind him, and the cello in his hand played slowly, and the tune sounded very soft, serene, and calm. It was the quietness, softness, that surprised everyone at the scene.

Although they knew that Bao Shiyi was already learning cello before the filming of the movie, and they also knew that Bao Shiyi's musical talent had always been very high, but this scene actually did not need live recording, because there would be dubbing later, which means that Bao Shiyi only needs to play it simply, in terms of action fingering, and angle shooting.

But now, when Bao Eleven was playing the cello, the sound slowly flowed out, and in that field, it was as if everything had disappeared, and everyone stopped, standing where they were, just looking, listening, listening......

Under the deep and low, closest to the human voice, it is like the saddest nature.

On the desolate green field, Bao Shiyi closed his eyes slightly, and played slowly with gentle emotion, so beautiful, so quiet, so peaceful, accompanied by his own low breathing, everything around him was so slow that he forgot the time.

At that moment, it went straight to the softest place in my heart, as if I was saying goodbye, as if I was telling about death, as if a man's whispering, confiding, deep but so tactful.

For some reason, Zeng Sheng, who was sitting behind the monitor, sat up straight at that moment, just looked straight at Bao Shiyi in the camera, looked at the person's eyes, listened to the person's performance, and seemed to hear something in the music.

That's what he and Bao Eleven said when they were discussing the film.

"Everyone walks alone on their own journey. ”

"The mortuary is the janitor of the funeral home, sending one person after another out of this world alone, saying to these souls, be careful on the road, you will always see you again. ”

"The journey of life is originally composed of countless farewells, and everyone from the moment they come to the world, they keep saying goodbye to the people in the world. The hearts of the dead ceased to mourn, and life passed quietly instead of withering, only carrying the pain of the living into a long-standing guardian in memory. ”

For some reason, listening to the performance of Bao 11's cello, the eyes of the people around him were red, and the indescribable sadness came out like that, silently sad. They all know this movie, what kind of story this story is about, precisely because they know that now listening to this music, their hearts are more and more sad, and the more they can't express their depression, so they can only cover their mouths and let their inexplicable tears flow.

"The living are passers-by, the dead are returnees, decades are just a quick glimpse, director, what do you say?"

Zeng Sheng looked at it, his red eyes were filled with tears, and he couldn't help but think of the line in the script, the paragraph that made his heart move-

"We will always encounter the pain of leaving our loved ones in our lives, whether it is a breakup or death, and we cannot afford it even if we are prepared. The only thing human beings should be taught is how to deal with this kind of suffering, but no one has ever taught me, we are all alone in silence, silently groping, silently despairing. ”

The music gradually fell silent......

"This is probably my last film. Think about how fast time flies, director, do you remember "The Crucible"? It was my film debut, and I always have that posthumous photo. ”

In a trance, Zeng Sheng took up the portrait that Bao Shiyi was holding before, and on the portrait was a Minxiu with a bright smile.

Bright, smiling young man's eyes, it was fifteen-year-old Bao Eleven.