Deng Chao once asked me in the car: "Hey, we have to write something after the whole story of our movie is finished, just one line." I thought about saying, "We should write the most simple sentence - dedicated to our father." After the audience finished reading it, it was hidden, and at the same time another line was written - for our children. "Quite simply, we wanted this film to be a gift to our fathers, to our children, but also to make up for those moments that we regretted.

Making such a film is something that we have already decided, even four or five years ago, when we didn't even plan to make a movie, but we always felt that we were not particularly well prepared. In the past two or three years, we have thought about a lot of details and exchanged different experiences in our lives. We have been imagining what kind of person the protagonist will become in the end, and we hope that he will become the best person through a good education, but we have never been able to envision his final ending, so this problem has always been left and has become the only problem left in our play.

Until one day last year, I went to Suzhou on a business trip and lost my wallet on the high-speed train. In a hurry, Deng Chao called me, and he said, "Hey. I thought, let's go to the universe. In my panic, I didn't think it was a good idea, until the wallet was found, and after a few minutes, I excitedly called Deng Chao back: "You're right, it's so right, I think I can start writing the script." "It felt like we've been raising a big watermelon, and after raising it to a fullest stage, we cut it open and we found the best way to express it.

The setting of the story takes place in the nineties of the last century, and we deliberately set the background of the story in this era. We hope that this story can carry a big historical change, because documenting historical change is also an important part of us and this story.

There is another theme in this play - time. China has undergone a lot of changes in the past few decades, and we hope to portray those unforgettable moments that we have all experienced in our films. There is an essay title in the movie called "Unmissable Time", in fact, in real life, I unconsciously missed a lot of time, such as missing the company of Wu Ziqi, the company of my father, and the company of my family. Once my father was sick for six or seven months, and I didn't even go back, and I really feel incredible now. Then when I went back for the Chinese New Year, my father came to pick me up at the airport, and at that moment, I really felt that he was old. When I went back to my home in Xi'an two days ago and looked at the photo wall at home, I also noticed that I said to my father: "You were in your early 60s in 2004 and 2005, but in a certain year, you became almost 70 years old. "It's like he suddenly had such a change in the months I didn't go back, and to be honest, I feel very guilty in retrospect, because now I don't remember what work I did during that time, but I think it's really ridiculous that I haven't seen my father for that long time.

So movies are really a magical thing, time goes forward, but movies can bring back all the time that has been lost and has been missed. I really hope that this movie can make you have the same emotions as us, I hope it can make our emotions quietly connect in the story, and I hope that our souls can resonate in the cinema.

Yu Baimei