Film focuses on puppy love

(China Every day) Greater than eight years in the past, when director Wang Xiaolie was making ready to shoot Hero Canine, a TV collection a few legendary pet canine, he stumbled upon a shocking reality — the nation had round 100 million households that raised canines as pets.

With the idea {that a} story primarily based on the connection between people and canines would resonate with a lot of viewers, he has been haunted by the concept of making such a narrative since then.

In 2020, Wang revealed his novella My Father Is a “Canine”, which has later been tailored into So Lengthy for Love, a 105-minute film.

Additionally directed by Wang, the film, was just lately launched throughout the nation.

Starring actors Wu Jing and Tan Songyun as a father and his highschool pupil daughter, the story unfolds as the daddy takes the woman to ski in Altay prefecture within the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous area. Sadly, the daddy has an accident, leaving him in a comatose state.

The mom, performed by actress Yan Ni, is confronted with the dilemma of letting him slip away peacefully or carry on artificially prolonging his life.

Nonetheless, her determination infuriates the daughter and results in a disaster of their relationship. The strain is finally modified by a Labrador pet, which sneaks out of a pet store and enters their lives, in the end repairing the household rift.

Throughout the premiere, actress Yan revealed the film casts a complete of three Labradors, who has enhanced her understanding of the harmonious relationship between humankind and animals. “Regardless of they (canines) do not’ converse, you can see that they might perceive most of your feelings and at all times accompany you as an intimate buddy,” she stated.

Actor Wu Jing performs a father who encounters an accident throughout a snowboarding tour within the film Track Lengthy for Love

Actress Yan Ni performs the mom