- The film began preparations in 2015 and has gone through a four-year creation period. It is the first work in director Wu Ming 's "Homeland Trilogy", and the trilogy is expected to take ten years or more to complete.
- The title of the film is taken from the Scottish adaptation of the song " Auld lang syne ", and the main melody of the song is played many times in the film.
- Director Wu Ming resolutely abandoned the fading and fading editing method, and took the risk of adopting the editing method of cross-jumping the timeline without subtitle prompts, in order to allow the audience to experience the 30-year life journey with the protagonist.
- Director Wu Ming often cried when he was touched on the set, and sometimes needed to rest for a while before continuing to shoot.
- Actor Wang Jingchun lost 30 pounds in one month in order to better fit Liu Yaojun's figure in the film.
- The scenes of factory worker Liu Yaojun in the film are all performed by Wang Jingchun himself. He was a qualified electric welder in 1992 and has a five-level welder certificate.
- Actor Roy took the initiative to say hello to Wang Jingchun , who played his adoptive father in the film, when he first joined the filming . Wang Jingchun deliberately responded with big eyes, and used a special way to quickly bring Roy, who has no acting experience, into the film. "Father and son look at each other." unaccustomed" atmosphere.
- In order to play the role of Liu Xing well, actor Roy not only personally experienced the life of a seaside child, riding a motorcycle, fishing, but also insisted on eating seafood, so as to achieve the purpose of popping acne and achieve a more realistic character state.
- Director Wu Ming revealed that Chenyu Hua and Yuchang Peng had been considered for the role of Liu Xing , but the cooperation was not successful due to scheduling and drama issues.
So Long, My Son behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Jaunita 2022-03-15 09:01:11
Accept life, accept fate, and work hard to move forward. The people of the previous generation were really forbearing and helpless, but they still chose to be generous. Although the final ending is a bit happy, but Liu Xing's sentence that my father, I am a star, is my biggest tear. What about positive and negative life, it is good to live, and the stars are still there. (But I still feel that three hours is a bit too long. In fact, sometimes it is a technique to cut it properly (the voice of the stars is really nice)
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Dorothy 2022-03-15 09:01:11
Thirty years later, another "Alive"! Definitely the best film at the Berlin Film Festival!
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Moli Shen: In love, women are stupid.