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| Name |
How Is Your Fish Today? |
| Chinese |
Jin tian de yu zen me yang? |
| Directed by |
Xiaolu Guo |
| Produced by |
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| Written by |
Xiaolu Guo
Hui Rao |
| Starring |
Xiaolu Guo
Ning Hao
Hui Rao |
| Cinematography |
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| Release date(s) |
2006 |
| Running time |
83min. |
| Country |
China |
| Language |
Mandarin |
Plot
A young man in southern China has killed his lover. He starts a lonely escape across the whole country towards his land of wonder, a snowy village at the northern border.
Sitting at his desk in Beijing, a scriptwriter is writing that man’s story. It is through his characters that his life gains its weight, meaning and freedom.
His imagination blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction.
The snowy village lies on the quiet border between China and Russia. Old villagers fish under the ice, school children study English text about America. They endure the long winter nights waiting for the sun to come back.
When the scriptwriter arrives in that mysterious village, he meets his own fictional character, lying on the frozen river at the border, covered in snow.
Two men contemplate the icy landscape. One wants to cross the border to see the other side of the world. The other longs to head back to his hometown, which he left so many years ago.
Notes
The way our film is now, people always think the filmmaker?s intention was to mix documentary and fiction in a film as a form, but that is not true. What we (at least me and Rao Hui) really believe is, there?s no difference between these two languages. We didn?t really weave these two realities with a specific method, we let the situation decide for us, because that?s what the nature of life teaches us ? we live in a subjective reality and it?s not possible to define what is reality and what is fiction. We live in our dreams, and everything is Belle de Jour, everything is about fantasy invading reality, or reality breaking into fantasy. -- Guo Xiaolu
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