Special feature of 1905 film network In the film history of China, it seems that there has never been such a film before, and all the actors are over 90 years old. These "post-90s" are not young people born in 1990s. They are not young people, and some are even centenarians. The reason why the film is named is a kind of respect for them, and it is also an echo of the times. After all, everyone has his own youth and his own youth. And their story must start with "The National SouthWest Associated University".
The National SouthWest Associated University is known as the Mount Qomolangma in the history of education in China. At that time, the conditions for running a school were extremely difficult, and air raids, power outages and students lighting oil lamps to study by themselves were common. Under such arduous conditions, The National SouthWest Associated University has created many miracles. Among the students trained by this school are two Nobel Prize winners, five winners of the highest scientific and technological awards in the Republic, eight meritorious deeds of playing two bombs and one satellite, and nearly 170 academicians of the two academies. Although it is only a short period of eight years, it has become a shining time for China’s education.
In the documentary One Day When We Were Young, we will see 16 alumni from The National SouthWest Associated University, including them, who weave the history of The National SouthWest Associated University and China for us with their personal life history.
When you haven’t experienced something, you can’t feel it personally. A lot of details mentioned in the film make it seem that we can really touch those years. Only by telling a real story can you go back to the scene and experience many details.
For example, in the film, several alumni described how they were harassed and bitten by bedbugs while sleeping in a simple student dormitory. There are also several students who ridicule each other and despise each other, all of which are so vivid and true.
In these touching details, One Day When We Were Young opened the dusty history of The National SouthWest Associated University for us through movies, and told the story of The National SouthWest Associated University’s teachers and students saving the country through education and reading. When you see those amiable, respectable and lovely old people and their faces, you will feel that each of them is a fortune and each of them is a thick book. It is precious for us to listen to their stories about the past.
Their stories are not only worth paying tribute to, learning from and remembering. More importantly, I feel the strength of a new life and spiritual strength from them. Perhaps this is the greater significance of the film One Day When We Were Young. This is a spiritual dialogue between the post-90 s who are over 90 years old and contemporary young people. On May 29th, give yourself a chance. Go into the cinema and feel what it means: the country is big, for the country and for the people.
At the end of the film, 16 "post-90s" stars reported their The National SouthWest Associated University student numbers respectively. When the student numbers appear on the screen one by one, it represents not only a string of numbers or an identity, but also a kind of pride, which is the wealth they will remember all their lives. "The National SouthWest Associated University" has gone deep into the bone marrow and blended into the blood, which has become an indelible mark in each of their lives.
