The interview session ended and the film screening officially began.

Offstage, Yang Kai turned his gaze towards the screen.

To be honest, he was quite curious about this film, and there were many media and film critics present who shared the same curiosity as him.

Judging from the information previously disclosed, this is a film about rural reality. To put it bluntly, it exposes reality and reflects the suffering of the lower class people. In fact, this type of film is very difficult to shoot.

If you write about suffering, you must have a real understanding of the lives of the lower classes. You cannot just imagine things. Otherwise, it is easy to make jokes like “When I was the poorest, I only had 100 million left in my card” and “Poor people can rent out their extra houses.”

However, Ye Zhiqiu is so young, can he write well on this subject? This is everyone's question.

The film begins in a slightly run-down small county town with a very 1990s feel.

On the street, a truck with an advertising board drove by, and the loud speaker on the truck played the slogan of a new community called "Sun City".

Then, the protagonist "Shu", who works as a helper in a car repair shop, appears.

When they saw the character played by Wang Qiang appear, many reporters and film critics present were surprised.

It’s really that the character in front of him is so different from Wang Qiang’s usual image that it’s almost unrecognizable.

In his previous work "Detective Chinatown", Wang Qiang played the role of "Tang Ren" who was shrewd and funny, but in this movie, it can be said that it was completely subverted.

Shu is a man in his 30s with no background, no education, no money and no good looks. Not only that, from his words and actions, it can be seen that he seems a little "stupid".

When others called him "Brother Shu", they didn't mean it was out of respect for him, but was actually a mocking term, but he couldn't hear it.

Not only that, Shu also longs for respect and weight, so he likes to mediate fights to show his "authority".

When he sees kids fighting on the street, he will step forward to help them, but the kids don't take him seriously at all.

"Who are you? Who do you think you are?"

When he returned home, when his mother mentioned that "Erzhu's factory has occupied all our land, and you didn't even say anything about it", he remained evasive and silent.

At night, Shu stood under the big tree smoking a cigarette, and in a trance he seemed to see a figure in the distance looking for something - it was his father.

But the tree knew that it was an illusion.

In 86, his brother was arrested by the police station as a hooligan and was hung on a tree and beaten by his father, who accidentally strangled him to death. His father has since passed away.

At the beginning of the film, the plot does not have much ups and downs and can be considered bland.

But beneath the plainness, a picture with unique characteristics of the era is presented.

To young people, many of the details may be incomprehensible.

But for a middle-aged person like Yang Kai who has experienced that era, the sense of substitution is extremely strong.

In that era, there was a crime called "hooliganism".

In that era, land occupation and disputes in rural areas were commonplace.

People like "Shu" who are incompetent, care about face, think they are social, but are actually laughed at by others after dinner, are found in every village...

The story continues. While repairing the car, Shu was hospitalized due to eye injury caused by improper operation.

In the hospital, there was a diligent young nurse who took care of him and treated him very well. As a result, he took the opportunity to hold someone else's hand and refused to let go.

He is an old bachelor and he also longs for women, so when a gentle woman's hand passes by, how could he let go easily?

A little hateful, but more pitiful.

Because of his injury, Shu lost his job at the repair shop. After being discharged from the hospital, he was wandering around the street aimlessly as usual when he met Gao Peng from the same village.

Gao Peng was about to get married, and was arranging wedding matters with people from the same village, so he invited him to the dinner.

At the dinner, he also met Erzhu, the man who set up a factory in the village and occupied his land.

The atmosphere was lively as the drinks flowed. On the surface, everyone was polite to Shu, but behind his back they still looked down on his teasing.

Outside, Shu's friend Xiaozhuang was riding a motorcycle and hit Erzhu's car. Erzhu was furious and forced him to pay compensation. Shu also wanted to step in between and act as a peacemaker.

"Xiao Zhuang is my good friend, please give me some face."

Erzhu was not polite and pushed him away.

"Go! What do you want?"

"Hurry and get the money."

On the side, Gao Peng pointed at Xiao Zhuang and advised, "That's enough, Er Zhu."

"How can he have three thousand dollars? Why would you bother with such a person?"

"Hurry up and apologize to Erzhu!"

This time, Erzhu was willing to settle the matter peacefully.

The tree is a fool, and his words carry no weight. But it is different for the powerful and worldly-wise guests.

Shu, who longed for respect and a sense of existence, was hit again. He came to the repair shop with nothing to do, but suddenly he saw a mute woman in the van.

The tree didn’t know what love was. He only knew that after taking one look at her, he wanted to take a second look.

When the van drove away, he couldn't help but suddenly run after it after he got off the van.

Soon, Shu asked the matchmaker to come and propose marriage, but the mute woman Xiaomei was very resistant to him and her eyes were full of disgust.

Shu's self-esteem was deeply hurt, but he still remained stubborn after leaving the house.

"It's a pity that he just can't speak."

Seeing this, all the audience in the theater shared the same opinion as the matchmaker.

If she wasn't crazy, would she like you?

The plot continues. At Gao Peng's wedding, Shu meets his childhood friend Yi Xin, who has moved to the city and has a successful career running a cram school.

During the lively wedding, Shu was pulled out by the bully Erzhu and asked to say a few words of blessing, but in fact he was pulled out just to make everyone laugh.

In the chaos, the tree accidentally stepped on Erzhu's new shoes. Erzhu was very unhappy. The bully, who was smiling playfully just a second ago, was now pressing his head hard.

But of course the "slow" tree ignored it again.

At the wedding, Shu Gaoxing drank a few more glasses of wine. Suddenly, he plucked up the courage to walk to the table where the bully Erzhu was sitting, and took advantage of the crowd to say what he had been holding in his heart for a long time.

"Brother, you occupied our land without even telling me."

Erzhu looked down on him and naturally didn't take his words seriously. He was also resentful of Shu for stepping on his shoes just now, so he took the opportunity to make trouble and tried to get him drunk.

At this moment, Shu spoke out for the first time what was in his heart that was not in line with his "identity".

"You are just pretending to be so arrogant because your brother-in-law is the village chief, right?"

"What do I rely on?" Erzhu was stunned, as if he couldn't believe his ears, and then he became furious.

"What do I rely on for my status?"

"Admit your mistake. I'm talking to you. Admit your mistake."

The tree lowered its head and remained silent. Erzhu became even more furious. He pushed away the people who were trying to stop the fight and pointed his fingers at the tree.

"Kneel down!"

"I told you to kneel down, did you hear me?!"

"Don't say I don't give you face!"

Kneeling down, what a humiliation it is for a man?

This is a wedding occasion, and Erzhu is nominally the junior, so how can he kneel to the tree?

But when he was dragged into the room by everyone, Erzhu still chased him aggressively and refused to give in, pointing at him and cursing.

"Get out of the way!"

"You still don't admit it, right? Are you going to kneel down or not?"

At this time, the tree, which had been silent all the time, finally spoke.

"brother..."

"There were a lot of people outside just now, brother, something is wrong."

After saying this, Shu's knees went weak and he fell to the ground.

In the theater, at the moment when Shu knelt down, there was deathly silence.

The scene before everyone's eyes made them feel as if something was blocking their hearts, making them feel extremely suffocated.