呼吸

影片集中表现北京南城的一个普通家庭，家里的母亲是电梯工，她毫无生气地每天守候在电梯旁，目送着乘客上上下下，下班之后到楼里的住户家打扫卫生以增加家里的收入。父亲从国企买断工龄后，找到一个饭店在后厨打打下手，父亲在没事的时候喜欢到网络上寻找同志爱人。儿子上中学，沉默寡言，终日泡在网吧。一个看似普通的北京三口之家总是被一些意外弄得异常别扭，厕所的马桶堵住、儿子得了肝炎等，每个人都有着自己的不想说的事情，每个人又想方设法地解决自己的苦恼和焦虑，生活对他们来说就像呼吸一样，年复一年、无时无刻，即理所应当又乏味无趣，而生命在呼吸之间慢慢消耗...
The movie is about a normal family living in the southern area of Beijing,China. The mother of the family is a elevator worker and has no passion for life, every day she works in the elevator taking the people up and down. After work she goes go the resident of the building to clean to make some extra income. The father of the family was “bought out from the national factory”,-the national factory is not responsible for him anymore- after that he started working in a restaurant as a chef’s assistant. What he like to do is date with his gayfriend. The son of the family is in middle school, who doesn’t like to communicate with other people much, including his mother, father and the rest of his family. The only thing he likes to do is to sit in the internet bar all day long. At first sight this family looks like a very normal family,but because problems often arise the family gets more and more frustrated. For example, the toilet got blocked, the son got hepatitis, everybody has their own problems that they don’t want to mention and everyone has their own way of dealing with their frustrations and torments.

我将故事发生的地点锁定在北京南城，这里居住着大多都是国营职工，他们的生活是快速发展中的中国的微观和缩影，他们在现代化的城市里步履蹒跚，维持着自己的生活、家庭和尊严，每一个生活在这里的人都有自己的烦恼、苦楚、愿望和无奈，但每个人都无可奈何地随风飘零，孤独地做着时代的失败者。家成了这部分人独特的地方，由于现实条件和经济状况，爱情对于他们来说是非常奢侈的事情，娶妻生子、居家过日子成了再自然不过的生命习惯，他们就像坐在时代高速列车上的乘客，一如既往地安静生活，车往哪里去、速度有多快，他们似乎并没有感觉，只是偶尔打开车窗的时候发现风景不再。家人之间又熟悉又陌生，既松弛又紧张，彼此牺牲着自己维护着一个外形的完整
The story happens in the southern area of Beijing because there are a lot of unemployed national factory workers living there. Their life is a miniature of the development of China. Their disability in the modern city makes them helpless. Nobody has a good method to deal with their problems, so they become the lonely loser in this society. The family is a very special place for them, because of the level of reality and the financial situation. Love for husband and wife is a luxury for them. Marriage and giving birth or living a normal life is nothing more than a usual thing. They’re living like a passenger in a high-speed train, they only have to care about their present situation, but they never know what the next stop is going to and they don’t know how fast they are going to get there. Sometimes when opening the window of the train they will find the scenery is not what they expected to see.

黑眼圈(创建者)