Buy tickets for every film festival in Hangzhou Have you ever met the 88-year-old grandma Hu in the cinema?
“I watched “Sweet Life” with an 88-year-old grandmother next to me. I was thinking, when I am old, I will continue to sit in the cinema and watch movies.” Last week, directed by the Zhejiang Film Screening Association , Zhejiang Xingguang Film and Television Co., Ltd. and Zhejiang Xingguang Cinema Line Co., Ltd. jointly sponsored the “2022 Italian Film Festival” held in Hangzhou. Many spectators and staff were amazed.
In this “2022 Italian Film Festival”, a total of 5 excellent films were shown, including the masterpieces “Eight and a half” and “La Dolce Vita” by Federico Fellini, one of the most influential Italian film masters, Italy The masterpieces “Red Desert” and “Adventures” by neorealist film master Michelangelo Antonioni, as well as the classic “A Splendid Life” directed by the famous Italian director Marco Tullio Giordana. In a hall with more than 400 people (due to the need for prevention and control, only 50% of the seats are open), tickets are issued within 2 minutes, and all the shows are sold out.
The 88-year-old grandmother asked her daughter to grab tickets for herself and watched 4 of them, including the 6-hour “Brilliant Life”, but she missed “Adventures” because she had to go to the hospital for dialysis on Saturday morning.
With the help of the organizer, the reporter got in touch with the old grandmother, Hu Mengcan, who was born in 1935 and was a primary school teacher before retiring. The number of movies watched by Grandma Hu may make many “senior movie fans” feel ashamed. She and her daughter go to the cinema basically every week, watching two movies at a time, and almost every film festival in Hangzhou is not missed.
This is a folk “reviewer” who loves movies
For physical reasons, Grandma Hu’s daughter answered most of the questions for her mother, but when she asked about the movie, Grandma Hu couldn’t help but interrupt. “I have liked movies since I was a child, especially” “When watching movies, my eyes will light up”, and he also joked that he is a “film reviewer” of CCTV Movie Channel.
I’m a little worried about whether the grandmother’s body can sit still. Grandma Hu’s daughter smiled: “If she is watching a movie, she can sit still, her eyesight is good, and she can read the subtitles without glasses.”
Why do you like movies so much? “My mother thinks that movies can bring more information, and you can experience the humanities of the world at home. She also traveled to many countries when she was young. Movies are still a comprehensive art, visual, auditory, and some creations by the director. Thought, she said that watching a movie is more three-dimensional than reading a book.”
Grandma Hu not only likes to go to the cinema to watch movies, but also hugs the CCTV movie channel at home. Grandma Hu’s daughter broke the news that the old man even arranged his daily life according to the program list, “For example, when there is a movie, she will not take a bath, and she has to wait until the movie is over before going to wash. She kept laughing with me. , she was the ‘screening officer’ for Channel Six.”
I like positive and moving movies
Grandma Hu, born in 1935. Says he “has loved movies since I was a kid”.
“The happiest time of my mother’s life was watching movies in the cinema.” Grandma Hu’s daughter recalled, “She was the first batch of students at Hangzhou Normal University (the predecessor of Hangzhou Normal University) after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. She would pay for the living expenses of the school. Save it and buy movie tickets. Later, she met my father again. After my father came out of the Zhejiang Song and Dance Troupe, he went to the cultural center to be in charge of mass literature and art, and they all showed movies, so we must watch movies when we have time. A must see, it’s been there for so many years.”
Grandma Hu likes stories with positive energy and moving people most. She has watched “Sniper”, the two “Changjin Lake”, and “Miracle: Stupid Child” starring Yi Yang Qianxi. She has also watched it, basically She will find a way to find movies with a score of 8 or more on Douban.
When encountering some particularly warm movies, Grandma Hu can be happy all day. Like “A Splendid Life”, the 6-hour movie made her full of praise, “It’s so good, it’s so warm, and it’s so tender. Every character has a very good ending at the end, which is very positive.”
She also watches Hollywood blockbusters, but doesn’t really like superhero movies. Because she thinks these films are too “flowery” and the form is greater than the content. And sometimes, when she encounters a good film, she will watch it several times, and each time she will have a new experience, like “Guests on the Iceberg” back and forth 7 times.
Do your homework ahead of time and watch two movies at once
Nearby Xinhua Movie Metropolis, Oscar Movie World, and Hangzhou Baimeihui Cinemas in Kerry Center are all cinemas that Grandma Hu is most familiar with, and every time I go to the cinema, I watch two shows, and one is not enough. .
For this reason, Grandma Hu’s daughter has to do her homework in advance every time: “I have to calculate the time, this film must be two good films worth watching, and then what time does the film start and when it ends, just to be able to catch up? .”
This time, when I watched the “2022 Italian Film Festival”, Grandma Hu’s daughter was solely responsible for grabbing tickets and arranging the time. “I watched every film, but my mother watched one less because she was going to the hospital that morning. I didn’t see it. After watching it in the morning, I took a taxi from the cinema to the hospital to pick her up during the noon break, then took a taxi to the cinema, and continued to watch the afternoon and evening movies. The time was relatively short, but we did not delay watching. Movie.”
After watching the last movie, Grandma Hu suddenly felt a little lost, and kept asking her daughter, when is the next film exhibition in Hangzhou? She wants to see more and more movies.
Grandma Hu’s daughter said: “My mother has kidney failure and has been on dialysis for 18 years. She has to go to the hospital for dialysis every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday morning to maintain her life. She said that watching the movie allows her to experience the various lives of the different protagonists in the film. Every corner of the world, so I can forget my sickness and age…”