Before writing the script for the film, a friend of director Shawn Ku died suddenly at his home. This incident gave him a lot of excitement. Although the friend died due to natural reasons, this sudden tragedy caught Shawn Ku off guard. , It also made him the center and hope of that grieving family. Some time after the death of their friends, Shawn Ku and Michael Abruster decided to write a script about the relationship between people, hoping to show the "appearance and divorce" relationship between people. In the beginning, Shawn Ku and Abruster set the tone for the film.
But another unexpected incident occurred-the Virginia Tech shooting. Shawn Ku's family is inextricably linked to Virginia Tech. His parents met and married in that school. His sister was born there, and the perpetrator was of Asian descent. These things combined severely affected Shawn Ku's nerves. Although no one in the family was injured in the shooting, the whole family was still "shocked." This incident gave Shawn Ku a major turning point in his script. Shawn Ku decided to write the plot of the shooting into the story, and also to show his grieving parents, just like the parents of his friend who died suddenly. The reason why Shawn Ku put the focus of the film on the family is because he believes that before criticizing the society and social diseases, he should first look for the reasons in the family. The relationship between Bill and Kate in the film comes from Shawn Ku's parents
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