The female characters in the movie resonate with the female filmmakers outside the movie.
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“Thirty or forty-year-old women, and in the city.” This is the expected judgment of the director Teng Congcong on the mainstream audience of “Send me to Qingyun”.
In fact, this film has always been branded as a “female film” from creation to propaganda – director and screenwriter Teng Cong is a woman, and producer Yao Chen is a woman; the film invites sexologists. Li Yinhe, a sociologist, was a guest; in the “actress declaration” of the Qing Dynasty at the FIRST Film Festival in Shanghai, “Send me to Qingyun” was also cue as a case of Yao Chen’s “curve to save the country”.
This is not a strong concept. “Send me to Qingyun” itself is very “female”, and Teng Congcong wrote many puzzles and thoughts in the story of the year.
At the beginning of the movie, the news of the diagnosis of ovarian cancer caused a heavy blow to the female reporter Sheng Man, the economic problem of raising the surgery fee, the family troubles of the father’s derailment, and her own unwillingness and desire for love, intertwined with her at the moment. A troublesome life. “Cancer is not a foreign virus. It is spontaneous in your body. Ovarian cancer is closer to women and has a greater correlation with our physiological characteristics.” Teng Congcon believes that ovarian cancer will be a reflection of Shengnan. The best opportunity for your own life.
Director/Writer Teng Congcon
A professional woman like Sheng Sheng who is not recognized at work, who is not warm in the family, and who is threatened by health is too rare on the big screens of the past – she is not strong enough Miserable, but Teng Congcon believes that she is real, can evoke resonance, and is also the role that female audiences want to see.
In a sense, “Send me to Qingyun” hopes to become a member of the Chinese women’s film pioneers; on the other hand, it is also intertwined with topics such as middle-aged actresses and female directors outside the screen. The female characters in the movie resonate with the female filmmakers outside the movie.
Yao Chen asked the director:“Is my age a little big?“
Yao Chen is very fond of the role of Sheng Nan, and has made great efforts for the characters. such as