"When you see that 24-hour convenience store in the deepest night - the lights are flashing and the clerk never wakes up - please turn around and leave immediately. Otherwise, you will get a wish that is too small to be mentioned, and lose a memory that you can never remember again."
Documentary assistant director Lin Wei exchanged "the warmest afternoon with her mother" for 100,000 in cash in order to raise money for her adoptive mother's surgery. After the transaction was completed, she found that the world seemed to have been desaturated: her mother's smile, the fragrance of gardenias, and the warmth of cicadas were all reduced to dry words. She began to use her lens and words to fight "forgetfulness" and record all the people who walked into the convenience store.
Purpose: True satisfaction comes from the process of struggle, not the result itself. The fruits of taking shortcuts are bitter.