Documentary director Yan Chenzhou once swept the industry with his grim documentary long shots. However, he was framed by his best friend two years ago and fell from the altar. He has since retired from filming. During a trip to the southwest during his trough period, he came across an ancient and magnificent "Nuo opera" in a crowded sacrificial square. The crowd is noisy and the fire is shining in the sky. The protagonist is wearing a ferocious mask of ghosts and gods. His figure is like a pine tree. He raises his eyes and looks at Yan Chenzhou from a distance through the sea of people. At that moment, Yan Chenzhou's dead creative desire was rekindled.
In order to turn around, he put aside his disdain for short videos, picked up his camera and returned to the town, looking for the core successor of Nuo opera - Cheng Yuanqing. To his surprise, Cheng Yuanqing turned out to be a fellow student he had never met. He was once an amazing talent in the musical theater department, but for his grandfather's last wish, he was willing to retreat from the prosperous stage to his hometown to guard this ancient skill that was on the verge of being lost.
One wants to use the hot traffic to justify his name, and the other wants to hold on to the last fire of his ancestors. As they get along with each other, both inside and outside the camera, Yan Chenzhou is deeply attracted by Cheng Yuanqing's persistence and fragility hidden under the mask. Cheng Yuanqing's long-suppressed stage dream also quietly revived under Yan Chenzhou's lens. When a video of Nuo opera unexpectedly becomes popular all over the Internet, Yan Chenzhou has the best chance to turn his career around, but he is also torn between fame, fortune and sincerity.
It wasn't until the truth came out that Yan Chenzhou realized that what he thought was "inspirational redemption" was actually a two-way journey that had been quietly paved when Cheng Yuanqing recognized him in the crowd. Everyone knows that it is the traffic that makes intangible cultural heritage, but they don't know that it is the ancient drumbeat that first shattered the wall of the heart, allowing two souls who were struggling between ideals and reality to finally kiss each other's sincerity through masks.
This is the story of a has-been director who was falsely accused of quitting the industry, but found a comeback script and a lifelong love story in a Nuo opera in the mountains.
Reading Guide
1. The director of the affectionate and fallen documentary film × The inheritor of the ancient Nuo opera
2.1V1 HE, running in both directions, eight years apart, micro-entertainment literature
3. The relevant details of Nuo opera are all sourced from the Internet. Some of the rituals require fine-tuning for the plot, so party members must be careful before entering.
4. Please do not promote the inheritance of real-life intangible cultural heritage. All artistic processing is to serve the plot.
"The ghosts and gods in my lens are the only gods I want to worship in this life."
Purpose: In the era of rapid traffic, find a light for the silent civilization.
