"Twenty-three seconds of strong earthquakes, twenty-three years of aftershocks!"

As soon as the movie opens, ruins begin to appear on a huge screen that is 22 meters high and 16 meters wide.

The names of Xu Fan, Zhang Jingchu, Li Chen and other leading actors below are these twelve big characters in the middle.

For those who are familiar with that period of history, the impact of these simple twelve words is unparalleled.

Staying alive is the beginning!

July 27, 1976, Tangshan!

On the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangzhou railway line, the day before the disaster, a swarm of dragonflies flew on the railway like an unprecedented time, and tens of thousands of dragonflies appeared in people's field of vision in an instant.

People who have been busy all day are rushing home, and a truck is among them, and Zhang Guoqiang plays the role of the truck driver.

He picked up the children from school, bought new fans, prepared to send them home, and then went back to the factory to run errands.

"It's too much, I don't want to catch it!" Fang Deng, the young sister and brother in the car, looked at so many dragonflies in a daze, and their reactions were completely different from adults, they just wanted to get out of the car to catch dragonflies!

"This is going to hold back a heavy rain!" The people in Tangshan felt a panic about the sudden strange phenomenon, and his father Fang Daqiang's expression was solemn, using the heavy rain to explain the sudden imagery, comforting a pair of children who were not familiar with the world, and also seemed to comfort himself.

Mother Yuanni got off work and rode a bicycle home to cook, and at that time, the most convenient and practical bicycle became almost everyone's means of transportation, and people could be seen riding bicycles in and out of the streets and alleys.

The siblings took their father's newly purchased fan and prepared to go home with the six cents they had just begged from their father to buy popsicles.

As soon as the adults left, the younger brother's popsicle was snatched by the fierce street bully, and the older sister pushed the villain to the ground in order to help the younger brother get angry, pulled up the younger brother and ran home.

When the two arrived home safely, they plugged in the fan power and began to tinker, and the mother, who was cooking, stopped what she was doing and ran to tell the children to pay attention to safety.

The family of three enjoyed a little coolness brought by the fan.

When night falls, Tangshan is a warm and harmonious scene under the sunset.

At night, his father Fang Daqiang came home and lay on the bed with a pair of children to play a game of drawing watches.

Mother Yuanni took out the two newly bought schoolbags, the elder sister wanted the Tianyu Gate, and the younger brother wanted the Great Wall, and they were very satisfied.

The children wanted to eat tomatoes at the same time, but there was only one in the family, and the mother asked the elder sister to let the younger brother eat it, and the elder sister seemed very reluctant, feeling that the mother was biased.

"I'll buy it for you tomorrow!" said her mother, coaxing her.

After settling the children to sleep, his father Fang Daqiang went out to work overtime.

The night breeze is blowing, and not far away are people who are in full swing of construction.

Daqiang's work at hand is almost over, the couple are busy, chatting about family life, hiding behind the carriage to make love, and enjoying a short period of warmth!

is worthy of Feng Xiaogang, and in just a few minutes of the plot at the beginning, he explained the scene of Tangshan City before the disaster.

The hard-working but warm Fang Daqiang family is like the epitome of all families in that era.

Although they are not very wealthy, the family is indeed very happy together.

If you watch it for the first time, ordinary viewers may feel that this plot is purely superfluous, and it would be nice to start the scene of the earthquake directly.

But Li Mu knew that these shots were necessary, whether it was a roadside vendor, a bicycle on the street, a construction site, a little villain grabbing a popsicle, and a goldfish in their fish tank.

It is precisely with the happy scene of harmony and health at the beginning that the subsequent earthquake can be more shocking and go straight to the hearts of the people.

The film continues, and the sleeping citizens of Tangshan never thought that a catastrophe was about to strike.

The fish tank in Fang Daqiang's house was the first to have a vision, the goldfish jumped out one after another, the prelude to the disaster was opening, and not far away he and his sister and brother were still asleep.

The sky of the entire city suddenly turned purple, and a bright light suddenly appeared not far from the construction site in the middle of the night...... Then the earth shook and the mountains shook!

Chaos, panic and screaming!

In the face of this sudden scene, people were stunned, helpless, and fled in all directions.

Daqiang realizes that a terrible earthquake is coming.

Buildings were destroyed one after another, and houses, trees, factories, and telephone poles were smashed at the unarmed at any moment.

The building in Zhang Daqiang's house was also crumbling, and the children woke up from their dreams, not knowing what was happening, they could only cry and shout for their father and mother!

The place as far as the eye can see is instantly turned into ruins!

In the face of great disasters, people's lives are as insignificant as straws, and the test questions and the people who are saving in the dark constitute a whole shocking scene.

Although he knew that this was watching a movie, Li Mu was still shocked by the scene in front of him.

When houses, trees, and boulders hit him, he unconsciously stretched out his hand to try to resist.

"It's a shame, and you'll be scared when you watch a movie!" Li Mu shook his head secretly.

But when he saw that the few audience members in the screening hall were doing the same thing as him, he smiled again.

In the movie, the couple heard the child's miserable screams and ran to the building that collapsed immediately.

In the rubble after the earthquake, the injured people did not care about bandaging and spontaneously carried out rescue. The rain was pouring down, the bodies of the victims were not claimed in time, and countless families were shattered in an instant. Everywhere were badly wounded, ragged and bleeding, and the whole city was as if it were the end of the world, full of desolation, dead silence, and terrible.

Yuan Ni guarded Da Qiang who was pressed under the ruins, and kept repeating, telling him to persevere and live. The embarrassed people wept and mourned, unable to believe what was happening in front of them, and only prayed that it would end soon.

Unexpectedly, disaster struck again. The aftershocks that followed took away the dying Daqiang, lost her husband, and the life and death of her children were uncertain, Yuan Ni was desperate and scolded in the heavy rain: "God, you bastard!"

Although they were badly wounded, thankfully, both children were still alive, just crushed under the stone slabs, unable to move. The younger brother called from the side, but the elder sister couldn't make a sound, and tapped the stone with weak strength for help.

The siblings were discovered, and Yuan Ni staggered to check.

Yuan Ni begged the masters for help: "His father is gone, if these two children are not saved, I will not be able to live." I beg you, I'll be a cow and a horse for you for the rest of my life, okay?"

Time passed minute by minute, the children were still not rescued, seeing that the children were dying, the master said that only one could be saved, and both would have to die, and Yuan Ni should make a choice quickly, time is running out.