Lin Xiaoling took the news documentary from China TV and watched it repeatedly.

This documentary is mainly to promote the country's humanized policies. As long as prisoners perform well in prison, they can get parole and go home to reunite with their loved ones.

More publicity materials, there are not many scenes of prisoners meeting their families.

However, it is in these few scenes that there is something touching.

The camera captures a few moments, and the prisoner's feelings of regret and concern are extremely sincere, and even professional actors are difficult to interpret.

Because this is life, this is reality.

The actor's performance comes from life. An actor is not a criminal, a lunatic, or a robber, but he has to imitate these characters when acting.

He had no such experience and could only imitate by observing various characters in life.

In the Performance Department of the School of Arts, teachers often ask students to go to train stations or tourist attractions to observe the coming and going crowds in densely populated areas.

Record the characteristics and behaviors of these people and play different characters in the classroom.

Some actors spend time experiencing life and understanding the living environment of the character in order to act well.

After watching a movie, the audience will comment that the actor is very similar, but no matter how the actor acts or performs, it is far less real than the original appearance of life.

Documentaries play this role. They can record the appearance of life almost realistically. Although life is ordinary and ordinary most of the time, there are always some moments that can touch people's hearts.

As a director, Lin Xiaoling wants to extract this moment and put it in the movie.

Therefore, art comes from life and is higher than life.

After watching the documentary, Lin Xiaoling felt a secret. She confirmed two points: one is that there is something to shoot on this subject, and the other is that the film should be filmed in a documentary style.

There is a difference between documentary films and documentaries.

Documentary is a film that creatively processes current news material, and the material it uses is real.

Documentary-style movies may be based on real events, but their details are fictional, artistically processed and processed. They are just a movie and do not serve as documentaries.

However, compared to those dramatic or technical films, documentary-style films are closer to life.

Through the movie, the audience can directly see what is changing, disappearing or growing in life.

The film "The Two of Us" can only be said to be lifelike and not a documentary-style movie, because it concentrates the contradictions in life, and looks like life, but in fact, life is more dull.

Documentary-style movies should tell a story as objectively as possible, not beautiful, not pretentious, or plain.

Lin Xiaoling has systematically studied this knowledge in school, and she has made documentaries, which can be regarded as having some experience.

She knew that using documentary style to shoot was a risky thing, which meant that the plot did not have much conflict and it was difficult to attract audiences.

This requires her to find some stories that can touch the audience when choosing shooting materials. The reasons for prisoners to enter the prison are different, and murderers should be the most serious crime.

The story of a female murderer may arouse the audience's feelings.

Lin Xiaoling didn't want to photograph a vicious woman, but wanted to photograph the story behind it. She wanted to go to the prison to learn about the case and find a suitable entry point.

"Are you going to find a murderer?" Xu Jinglei said in surprise, "The other criminals also have stories to film, so there is no need to take such risks."

"It's either meeting them directly, or searching for information, and then talking to the person involved when they meet a suitable one. What's the danger?" Lin Xiaoling said indifferently, "Don't worry, I'll find someone to accompany you."

"I'm busy filming, otherwise I'll be with you." Xu Jinglei said helplessly.

"If you want to experience life in the future, you must go to prison and be mentally prepared." Lin Xiaoling teased.

He did it as soon as he said that, Lin Xiaoling contacted the Beijing Women's Prison, which used to be a women's labor camp, but in the past two years it has been changed to a prison, specifically detaining female prisoners with registered household registration in Beijing.

With the certificate issued by Haomeng Company and accompanied by an employee, Lin Xiaoling walked into the prison.

There was no horror as imagined, and the prison staff provided her with some archive materials.

After searching dozens of materials, Lin Xiaoling found that not all the prisoners were extremely guilty, and some people committed irreparable crimes just because of a temporary mistake.

One of the cases is the most obvious.

In the 1980s, there was an ordinary family. This family was a divorced and reorganized family. The mother and her daughter Xiaohong married a man, who also had a daughter named Xiaoqin.

The family of four lives together like this.

But there is a difference between being close and being alienated. As a father, he should take care of his biological daughter Xiaoqin, but he should be more distant to Xiaohong.

One day, Xiaoqin stole the five dollars that his father had placed on the windowsill. Before his father found it, he suspected that Xiaohong had stole the money and had a big argument at home.

Xiaoqin was scared, so she hid the money under Xiaohong's pillow and was discovered by adults.

This further confirmed the fact that Xiaohong stole money, and Xiaohong was scolded by her mother.

Xiaohong knew that it was not her own, so she was framed. On the way to school, she asked Xiaoqin to argue, but Xiaoqin refused to admit it.

Xiaohong was furious and picked up the shoulder pole of the roadside vegetable farmer and smashed it towards Xiaoqin, but accidentally smashed Xiaoqin to death.

So Xiaohong went to prison and was in prison for more than ten years. When she first came in, she was only in her teens and now she is almost thirty.

This case touched Lin Xiaoling very much. She went to see Xiaohong specifically. She was a very silent woman and was unwilling to talk to her.

Back at the apartment, Lin Xiaoling sorted out the notes at hand, and passed the whole incident in her mind.

In her opinion, the cause of this case is not the focus, but the focus is how Xiaohong will face her family when she returns after she is released from prison.

This situation has not happened yet, and no one knows the result. The movie is a fiction based on a certain life.

Lin Xiaoling wanted to express understanding and tolerance when filming this film, so she had to think about how to get Xiaohong home smoothly.

"I don't think you can play a prisoner. You are too young. This role must be middle-aged." Lin Xiaoling said to her roommate.

"That's right, this role is really inappropriate." Xu Jinglei agreed after looking at the case.

"I have arranged a new role for you. The young female police officer in the prison. You are responsible for accompanying the prisoner home, helping her adapt to life outside, and teaching the prisoner how to get along with her family." Lin Xiaoling said, "Your role plays a role in plot promotion and looks at the whole thing from the perspective of an onlooker." (To be continued.)
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