August 3, 6 p.m. Li Tingxiang asked Jang Eun-hyuk to take Kim Jong-ming to the Samsung VIP cinema in Guangximen early. The soul of the movie, the actor of the dumb grandmother, Jin Yifen, insisted on not wanting to leave his small village. She claimed that after the movie was released, it would be good to ask her son to take him to the movie theater in the town to watch it. Li Tingxiang also felt that it would be good to let the old man live quietly, so he nodded and agreed at that time.

And the only remaining leading actor, Jin Zhongming, had to come to the cinema early to prepare to accompany Li Tingxiang to deal with reporters. Fortunately, Guangximen is 1,500 meters north of Jin Zhongming's grandfather's house in Dongcheng District, even if the road is very congested, it only takes 5 minutes to arrive.

Although he arrived very early, Kim Jong-ming, as a child star, could only sit backstage with Min Kyung-hoon and Lim Eun-kyung, and only after all the guests entered, they would go to the rostrum with Li Tingxiang to answer questions.

The red carpet was prepared in front of the cinema, even if there were no stars in this movie, but Li Tingxiang had been in the circle for 10 years, and there were stars who had cooperated with him to cheer him on.

In fact, few of the reporters who came here to wait, except for a few professional film magazine reporters, came for the movie. Most of them are here to shoot stars.

After all, although this movie has been promoted for a month, how can a film with no stars, relying on three minors with no acting experience and an old lady who has never been out of a mountain village, and it is a warm film.

The first to arrive were Lee Sung-jae and Shen Yinhe, who came together, and all the reporters at the scene were excited. With the red carpet photo of these two people, it is not in vain for them to come to this trip.

Lee Sung-jae is the hottest movie actor now, he participated in "The Zoo Next to the Art Museum" (also known as "Love Reverse Mirror") directed by Lee Jeong-hyang last year, and won the Best New Actor Award at the 36th Korean Film Daejong Awards and the Best New Actor Award at the 35th Korean Baeksang Arts Awards. After receiving attention, this year he continued to star in "Gas Station Attack" directed by Jin Xiangchen, which is ready to be released in October. He can be said to be an actor brought out by Li Tingxiang, so he has to come to cheer anyway.

Shen Yinhe, who came together, is also the starring role in the movie "The Zoo Next the Art Museum", Shen Yinhe became famous earlier, but her guide on the big screen is also Li Tingxiang. So even if she doesn't like to socialize and show up, she has to come today. However, the people around me may not know that at this time, she is tired of the entertainment industry and has the idea of getting married and having children.

Subsequently, Choi Min-so, Lee Hye-young, Jung Ji-young, Park Joong-hoon, Choi Jung-yun and other big-name stars and directors came to cheer alone or in partners.

Then, the cutting-edge actor So Ji-sub, and several outstanding MCs with their own programs, such as Jung Jun-ha, Ji Seok-jin, Lee Hye-jae, etc., came together. made the reporter below secretly sigh at Li Tingxiang's travel.

The reporter who thought that he had come from afar in vain never expected that the finale would be followed by An Shengji, who was alone and dressed at home.

An Shengji and Li Tingxiang are old partners, and the two are extremely close to each other. Li Tingxiang participated in many of the films he participated in as an assistant director before, and many of them were starring Ahn Sung-ki. Later, when Li Tingxiang started filming his first movie, An Shengji took the initiative to play a supporting role for free. Later, the movie was a great success, and this incident also became a good story of Chungmuro.

An Shengji's arrival caused a commotion among the overjoyed reporters, and the scene almost got out of control, thanks to An Shengji's experience, he took the initiative to accept a short interview. In the interview, An Shengji skillfully led the topic to the movie itself, and quietly hinted at his expectations and optimism about the movie.

Li Tingxiang looked at it from the side, and there was a gratitude in his heart. However, she is also confident in her film.

When the guests arrived, Li Tingxiang returned to the backstage and took three young actors to the rostrum from the side. Jin Zhongming, who is 11 years old and has not yet developed, can only sit on a raised chair to reveal half of his upper body.

Before they even started asking questions, some reporters had already begun to change their attitudes and waste film. In particular, the three little actors are all beautiful, which is very different from the previously announced poster. After the questions began, most of the questions were given to Li Tingxiang, and the few questions asked Jin Zhongming were also pediatric questions. And Jin Zhongming was not stage frightened at all, not only answered the questions beautifully, but also played a role from time to time to make the adults at the scene laugh.

And in the audience, the only few people who knew Kim Jong-ming, such as Jung Jun-ha-Ji Seok-jin, they had been looking at the boy with a magical gaze.

The movie begins.

The logo of the issuing company faded and the picture brightened. A mother and son sit on the train, and the younger son whistles and plays with toys, which arouses the mother's impatience.

The picture is not very beautiful, and the little actors are still good. Many film critics commented on the occupational disease in their hearts.

The film continues, the mother takes her son from the train to the car, gets off the car and walks, and finally meets the elderly grandmother. As soon as my grandmother appeared, the hearts of the audience jumped. With a wrinkled face, gray hair, and shabby dirty clothes, could such an old man live alone? Can she take care of herself? Does she still have to take care of her grandson?

In the house, the mother who left her hometown at the age of 17 to wander in Seoul reluctantly told her poor and dumb mother how bad her situation was, and in order to free up her hands to find a job, she could only ask her mother to take care of her son, and she would take her son back until the school opened two months later.

Outside the door, Sang-woo, a bear child played by Kim Jong-myung, is peeing on his grandmother's shabby shoes. Although sitting in the front row, Jin Zhongming could still hear some angry voices in the audience.

Sang-woo, who grew up in Seoul, lives with his dumb grandmother who has only been to a small town at the foot of the mountain. The conflict of the plot on the big screen is higher and higher. A mute grandmother who can't speak, a poor, happy and patient old man who lives alone. City boys must have TVs, game consoles, hamburgers and KFC fried chicken as their company, but when they get to the poor mountain villages, there are only broken TVs, mountain streams, and vegetable fields, and unfortunately the batteries of the game consoles are also running out. Cheng You actually stole his grandmother's hair pin to change the battery, but he got lost again, and his grandmother was so tired that he kept waiting on the side of the road.

In the process, the bear child Sang-woo cruelly trampled on his grandmother's love for him again and again. And my grandmother never stopped caring and loving her grandson.

Kim Jong-ming sat in the front row. He didn't expect how uncomfortable it would be for him to have those scattered shots stacked together. At that time, when shooting, even if it was a single shot, sometimes he would feel cruel and unacceptable, and he would often NG a considerable number of times. However, in the cinema, in front of such a big screen, he didn't even have a chance to NG, so much so that Kim Jong-ming himself hated himself a little.

Many viewers in the audience also began to sigh neatly and tone words along with the plot. Even some journalists are beginning to forget about their jobs and join the army of modal words.

When the movie comes to the first climax. Sang-woo wanted to eat fried chicken, but his grandmother couldn't understand what he meant, so she killed the important chicken in the family and made it into a stewed chicken. And when Sang-woo pushed away his job bowl again and pushed his grandmother's love for him away, the entire movie theater actually sounded a neat "ah" similar to a swear word.

The audience watches the plot, and the industry insiders look at the doorway, and the movie stars, directors, and film critics in front of them have roughly understood that Li Tingxiang's movie is undoubtedly a success. There's nothing contrived about this movie inside and out. In the whole movie so far, there are no more than 20 actors with their faces exposed, including the people in the car. The young actor is currently a passing performance, but he has an excellent grasp of his lines. And the performance of the actor who played the grandmother who didn't have a single line is now superb. All the film critics are ready to go back and brag about the director of the film and the old man who played the grandmother, after all, if the film of this genre performs well at the box office, the media is not allowed to go against the grain. Now go back and praise the director and actors, and if the box office success of the movie in the later stage, blow it up. If the movie fails at the box office, let's discuss what kind of structure is pale, and it's a pity that the little actors are not perfect.

But after just two minutes, they weren't ready to talk about the little actors. Because of what followed, the three young actors staged a collective outburst, especially Kim Jong-ming became extremely brilliant and became the soul of the movie like his grandmother.

In the movie, Sang-woo pushed away the rice bowl with chicken legs, which made his grandmother sad and blamed herself, and she didn't know what to do. That night, the hungry and panicked Sang-woo secretly ate the chicken legs. It was from this time that Sang-woo underwent a transformation, and the movie entered a continuous climax with Sang-woo's transformation.

Early the next morning, Sang-woo found out that his grandmother was sick and lying on the mat and couldn't get up. Sang-woo begins to try to take care of his grandmother. When he found that his grandmother was inserting a hair pin with an iron bolt, Sang-woo gave her grandmother the hair pin he had stolen and put it back on. He tried to re-steam the previous chicken for his grandmother, but he was busy from morning to noon before he could barely reheat it.

Later, Sang-woo goes out to play and meets the only two other children in the village, Ah Cheol and Hye Yeon. Ah Zhe is a hard-working and simple mountain child, he often goes to deliver food to his elderly grandmother Sangwoo, and goes out to work hard every day. And Huiyan is a simple and lovely girl from a mountain village, and she likes Ah Zhe very much in her heart.

Ah Cheol is playing with a calf on the mountain with a wooden plank, and Sang-woo is also attracted to it, and then cheers for Ah Cheol's bravery with Hye-yeon. But then Hye-yeon, who turned her head, found that Sang-woo was cheering, and trampled on the plastic bottles that she had piled up to play with her family. Hyeyeon pointed to the broken little bottle, and Sang-woo lowered his head and retracted his feet, at a loss. Hye-yeon waited for a while and directly accused Sang-woo: "Won't you apologize?" But he just kicked the pebble around a plate back with his foot.

"Go away!" Hye-yeon crouched down to tidy up her little plastic home.

"I'll do it too. Xiang Yu Nuo said.

"I haven't lived with you. While cleaning up her small dining table made of plastic bottles, Huiyan looked up and said something that seemed ridiculous: "People like you will never get married." People like us grow up, there will be more girls than boys, but you are so unlucky!"

At this time, Sang-woo squatted down and asked Hye-yeon an even more ridiculous question: "Do you know how to make KFC?"

"No, I'll eat. Huiyan replied without even raising her head.

"Is Ah Zhe your boyfriend?"

"What's wrong?" asked Huiyan rhetorically.

Sang-woo, who was severely ridiculed by Hye-yeon, was speechless.

But it was also from this day that Sang-woo underwent a noticeable transformation again. When he was whistling and pushing a BMX cart to help his grandmother pick pumpkins, he met an uncle who came from the opposite side pushing a cart, and this time he hesitated and took the initiative to get out of the way.

But the key scene continues, the grandmother picks the pumpkin and sells it at the market for a meager amount of cash, and Sang-woo is very touched, he refuses to buy the battery, but goes directly to the car. The driver of the car told his grandmother: "The old lady across the street says hello, she has broken her leg and can't come to see you, do you want to go and see her?" ”

Grandma let Sang-woo get in the car and go alone to visit an old friend at the grocery store across the street. The two old men faced each other, one couldn't speak, the other kept talking, but the communication was very smooth, one gave each other's children snacks, and the other gave each other's own agricultural products. It looks like barter, but in fact it's a mutual gift. Before leaving, the old man in the grocery store told his grandmother in a trembling voice: "Come again, see you again before you die." ”

Grandma returned to the car, but Sang-woo asked her grandmother to walk home by herself, and he walked with Ah Cheol Hye-yeon. The reason was that he saw a beautiful little girl next to the car, and he was afraid that his grandmother would come up and embarrass him with him. So he pushed away the heavy package from his grandmother several times, and even stole a bag of snacks from the package. My grandmother couldn't speak, and her strength was not as great as that of her grandson, who was taller than herself, so she had to go on the road alone with a hunched back, a cane, and a heavy package.

Back at home, Sang-woo became more and more worried about his grandmother, he was ashamed of his ridiculous behavior, and he even used his own rock-paper-scissors method to decide whether to pick up his grandmother.

In the end, Sang-woo took the initiative to run outside the village, took his grandmother's package, and put the snacks back in their place. The grandfather and grandson returned home together.

Then Sang-woo is completely like a different person, he repairs Hye-yeon's play plate that he stepped on before, goes to apologize to Ah Zhe and the others and play with them, and accepts his grandmother to cut her pot head. In the same way, he wore a headscarf to cover the lid of the pot, played with two friends, taught his grandmother to write letters, and drew pictures for his grandmother.

However, in the midst of these wonderful things, the summer vacation is over.

Mom came from Seoul to bring Sang-woo back.

Everyone at the scene lowered their voices and watched the ending quietly.

The three of them stood in front of the stop sign, as if they had found a job, and their mother, who kept caring about their grandmother, told her to wear more clothes, and promised to come to visit her during the New Year.

And grandma kept going to communicate with Sang-woo, but strangely, Sang-woo kept his head down and didn't say a word, and didn't give any response to his grandmother's concern.

Sangwoo's mother had to explain to her grandmother embarrassedly: "Mom, I think he is shy. Thank you for taking care of him. ”

Unable to speak, my grandmother had no choice but to nod.

The car came, and before getting into the car, Sang-woo gave his grandmother the album of his most precious Transformers, and then walked into the car. The grandmother outside the window stepped forward and raised her hand high, wanting to touch Sang-woo's hand, but Sang-woo never responded.

The car started, the music played, Sangwoo suddenly stood up, ran to the back of the bus, sat in the back seat of the car, looked at his grandmother, and waved goodbye to his grandmother, and his grandmother saw his grandson in the back seat of the car go away, leave the col, and disappear from view. It turned out that the parting music faded away, leaving only the sound of the mute grandmother's rapid breathing.

The audience was silent, and only the sound of grandma's breathing was still in the entire movie theater.

The picture darkened, the music sounded, the rhythm became cheerful, and a new picture appeared, of my grandmother walking slowly towards the village on a gravel road in the mountains, on crutches. Several shots are cut, and they are all grandmothers on the way home.

Suddenly, the picture flashed, a pair of old hands were holding the album given by Xiang Yu, when the album turned over, Xiang Yu scribbled a letter to his grandmother in the middle of the letter, a villain was sleeping quietly, looking at it from the hair pin, only to know that this was grandma. The pages of the album flashed by, all of them were slightly immature, and Xiangyu's grandmother drew them by himself.

The scene cuts back to climbing a rugged hill, and my grandmother has arrived home safely.

And then the movie ends.