The Last Night on Earth (2018)
"Have you ever counted the stars in the sky? They are like birds, they always skydive on my chest"
OPENING TITLES
scene one
woman picking up microphone on microphone stand
Narrator: As long as I see her, I know it must be in a dream again. Once people know that they are dreaming, they will be like wandering souls, and sometimes they will float. In my dreams, I always wondered if my body was made of hydrogen gas. If so, then my memory must be made of stone.
scene two
Man wakes up from bed, background tv sound
Woman; did you know you've been talking in your sleep? (hair blowing)
man; woke you up?
woman; what did you dream about?
man; a missing person. I dream of her every time I feel like I'm going to forget her
woman: your lover?
Man: That's right, but I don't even know her real name, age, or even her past.
Woman: Why are you talking like a story in a green book?
Man: Didn't I tell you not to rummage through the contents of my bag?
Woman: I kinda want to know more about you
(The man gets dressed and gets up)
scene three
"Luo Hongwu!"
Lo; if it wasn't for my father's passing, I might never have come back to Carey. Now that I think about it, it seems like everything started with the death of a friend. His nickname is White Cat, and he always hides his debts everywhere. The last time I saw him, I helped him pull a cart of apples, which were supposed to be sold to a man named Zuo Hongyuan at night. But I just got divorced at that time, people are a little forgetful, and when I think about it again, the apples are already rotten. Later, through a friend who was a police assistant, I learned that the body of the white cat was found in a mine. I was cleaning up the pile of rotten apples when I discovered there was a gun hidden, and from that time on, I was more likely to be attracted to dangerous things
car wash scene
(The two are wrestling, with the left hat on the back of the car.)
scene four
(Remove the clock and replace it with a photo)
Woman; before your father died, he often drank to this broken clock, and he would not listen no matter how he persuaded him. The will he left said to leave the pickup to you and the dining room to me. Do you have any opinion? (Silence) I heard him say that you are working outside all the time, aren't you? I plan to renovate this restaurant. Do you have any other place to stay when you come back?
Luo: It's best not to take down the signboard, it's my mother's name. (Xiaofeng Restaurant)
scene five
(The male protagonist drives a small truck)
Background sound; It is expected that in the next week, Kaili will usher in strong rainy weather, which will last for a long time, with a large amount of local rainfall, and the rainstorm will coincide with the previous heavy rainfall area. The risk of landslides, mudslides and other disasters is high. Friends who drive vehicles, please pay attention to safety.
(The male protagonist came to the leaking house and turned on the light bulb. When he got to the sofa, he took out the broken clock, opened the back cover, and found the photo hidden inside. The photo says Tai Zhaomei)
scene six
(man, turn the clock); I saw the white cat's soul on the train after he died. Probably the train passed a long cave and I had hallucinations. It happened to be the summer solstice, the day when the sun was at its highest at noon. Although the man named Zuo Hongyuan evaporated from Carey, I tracked down his lover. If these are not hallucinations, then I still remember the day when the train was forced to stop because of a mudslide.
Woman; can I borrow a fire?
(The man walks over, grabs her hair, and lights her cigarette)
Woman; I really don't know where he is, the police are looking for him lately (smoking)
(man gets a gun)
Woman; you think I'm afraid of you, don't you? (The man holds the gun to the woman's forehead)
scene seven
"Hello, the number you dialed is empty, please check and then dial..."
scene eight
Man; I don't know how a detective would question a strange woman, I had to take her back to Xiaofeng Restaurant, because my mother told me that people definitely don't have time to lie when they are eating. The white cat loves to lie since he was a child. He took advantage of my trust and made dangerous transactions for him, in order to extort a sum of money with the secret of the gun. I didn't continue to question her, thinking that the story would end here, but I didn't expect the story to just begin. At dinner that day, I noticed that her makeup looked exactly like my mom's photo. I remember that it was written on the calendar that the day when the sun is highest at noon means that after this day, the days will be shorter and the nights will be longer.
(The woman walks in front, the man follows in the car)
Woman; you didn't let me go after dinner, why did you follow me again?
man; I think you are very much like someone I know
Woman; this plot is very old-fashioned, what do you want to do?
man; really. (Takes out the photo) She passed away when I was a few years old, and I still remember that day, there was a fire nearby. Do not believe you see?
(The woman turns around and continues walking)
Man; I don't know why, I remember in the photo, her makeup is also floral.
Woman; I drew this ghost because I was shaking too much on the train, okay?
man; you shouldn't be a Carey?
woman; how do you know?
male; listen to the accent
Female; where do I have an accent when I speak Carey?
Male; Then how do you pronounce your name in Carey?
female; Wan Qiwen
Male; Wan Qiwen. . It's like a star's name
Female; how far do you want to go with me?
Male; Did it scare you today? (gets off) How can I apologize to you?
Female; I want to eat wild grapefruit
Male; how can there be wild grapefruit in summer?
Female; then let's make a bet! If I can find the wild grapefruit, you will help me make a wish come true
scene nine
(The man repairs the car, the phone rings)
Hey
Luo Hongwu, before that empty number was a phone number from a women's prison in Guiyang. Did something happen to you?
It's okay, go see a friend. Hello! CALL machine!
Um?
Could you trouble your husband to open a prison visit certificate for me?
is it okay
Okay
scene ten
(men and women kiss in the grass)
The green upside-down picture symbolizes...
scene eleven
(Women's Prison.)
Pick up the microphone; are you Tai Zhaomei?
The woman also picks up the microphone
Male; Do you know Wan Qiwen?
female; unknown
Male; Have you sent a photo to Xiaofeng Restaurant?
female; forget;
(The man takes out the photo) Is it this photo?
Female; so she left this green book for you. We were only fifteen or sixteen years old at the time, and it was our first time stealing. At that time, we stepped on those two people for a long time. Finally, one day, we saw the two people going out. At night, a few of us smashed his door and ran in. With the flashlight in Wan Qiwen's hand, she took pictures everywhere, and told us that she found that the house could be rotated. So we just sat there, motionless, like a fool. Wasted a lot of time. Later we rummaged through the boxes and found rings, necklaces, gold, and some money. At this moment, the two suddenly returned. We were frightened and didn't know what to do. At that moment, we decided to run outside with the most valuable thing in the room. When we ran into the woods to share the spoils, we saw that the last thing she took out was a book. A couple of us just finished reading this book in the woods. It's a love story, and although it's only half of it, we all like it. She said she would leave this book to the person she likes.
Male; how did that photo get to you?
Female; she gave it to me. It's fun to talk about this photo. After we were tricked into Carey by the old A, the old A sold her to an alopecia areata. Because alopecia areata thought she sang beautifully. On the day she left, we asked her if she was sad, and she said that there was nothing to be sad about, and she could often go to the movies with him. I just feel a little regret that I didn't take a photo well in advance. Because I don't know what kind of person I will become in the future. Until twelve years ago, on her birthday, she came to me once. When she left, she asked me that the person in the photo didn't look like her. I said, not like. She left me the photo. It didn't take long for all of us to be arrested. During the Spring Festival, a cellmate of Carey came. She saw this photo and told me the address on the photo, and I sent it there. I don't even know if she's there.
Male; What did you come in for?
female; eh. a lot of. Theft, fraud, false identity
Male; I don't know where she is either. It feels like you know her better than I do. I leave this book to you.
scene twelve
(The woman smokes and walks barefoot on the stone steps by the side of the road.)
Do you believe the love story in the book? Just chant the spell on the title page and the lover's house will spin.
scene thirteen
(The man drives out of the prison, and the prison guard catches up and hands him the title page torn by Tai Zhaomei)
scene fourteen
Going back to the dilapidated house with dripping water, the camera turns and the time goes back to the past.
(Women smoke in the house, men play with children outside the house)
Man; she always disappears for a while and comes back. As mysterious as the abandoned house, in addition to cheating, we would often go to the movies together. The biggest difference between a movie and a memory is that the movie is definitely fake and is made up of one shot after another, while the memory can't tell the truth from the false, and it appears at any time.
(The camera moves to the cinema, the man is watching innocently, and the woman is crying while eating grapefruit)
scene fifteen
(The two are eating hot pot)
Woman; Chen Huixian, isn't that the name of a Cantonese singer?
man; there are many people with the same name.
Woman; there are indeed two Chen Huixian in Panghai Town. There is a very old one who has been sold off in 1999. There is another one with the same name, 36 years old this year, married, I don't know about the others.
man; where is her husband?
Woman; her husband's name is Wang Zhicheng, who runs a hotel next to the gas station in Panghai Town
(On the train, a man is sitting. Next to it is a glass box. Inside the box is a cobra, coiled in a circle, trying to attack)
scene sixteen
men; they are gone
Woman; there is one thing I don't know if I should tell you.
man; your business is like a mystery anyway
woman; I am pregnant
(The man grabs her cigarette)
I feel like he is a boy. He grows up like an athlete
man; i can teach him to play ping pong
woman; rest assured. During the time I disappeared, I had already knocked him out.
man; why
Woman; Zuo Hongyuan is going back to Carey
Man; why don't we leave Carey? run to a farther place
Woman; you think I haven't thought about it? I've thought about everything you thought. Did you know that once, I was singing karaoke with him. He suddenly took the microphone and said loudly to me, no matter where you go, I will find you. As long as I think about it. I knew that in this life, I might not be able to escape no matter what.
Man; you have to believe me like you believed in that spell.
Women; Luo Hongwu, we can only hide in space to live.
(man sits next to woman) Man; others say 1999 was the end of the world, it's 2000 now, aren't we fucking alive yet.
(woman leans on man's shoulder) Man; I have a friend who runs a casino in Burma. You go back and wait for me, pack up overnight, and we'll go. (kiss)
(vibration, water glass falls off table)
scene seventeen
(The male protagonist was driving. He encountered the traffic police on Panghai Road and was stopped. So he took the CMB and continued on his way.)
scene eighteen
Zuo Hongyuan caught men and women. Smoking, singing.
scene nineteen
slightly
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Master; what do you want me to do?
man; I came to inquire about a man
master; who are you to her
man; friend of Carey
The owner calls his dog "Kerry! Carey!"
Turn around again. Are you Luo Hongwu?
scene twenty
(men and women in the reservoir)
man's voice; since the day we were discovered, I've often worried about people flying into space, they must be very tired, because there is no place to rely on every part of the body
(The man comes to the surface and swims to the shore, the woman strokes him)
woman; have you figured it out?
man; the water is too cold (woman hugs man) I'm afraid I'll miss
Woman; it's so dark in the movie theater, as long as you shoot with the murderer in the movie, the audience will think it's the voice in the movie, after we leave Carey, we use his money to open a hotel and find that kind of street lamp like the sun, Set up outside the hotel, so that those who come to stay will not have nightmares.
scene twenty one
The owner of the hotel; he has been in the room since he moved in. Don't go out. When she had no money to pay for the room, she would tell me a story every day to change the room. Until then, we got married.
man; is she coming back tonight
Master; we just finished the divorce procedure. Once she said she wanted to go out for a walk and never came back.
man; do you have any news about him now?
Master; she sings in Dang Mai's karaoke hall. After she left, I sometimes went to the karaoke hall to listen to her singing. It was that song that was sung over and over again, and after that, I rarely went there.
man; is that child yours?
Master; she's a master storyteller, and I don't know what's true and what's not. Anyway, she said, she was born infertile.
scene twenty two
(The sound of the dance machine. The woman is dancing.)
woman; haircut? no water.
(a playing card)
The woman stirs the honey; when the white cat is dead, you don't come. It's hard to come here, like a detective again. What are you asking about the murderer's woman?
man; she took something as valuable as me
Woman; you'd better stay away from her. At that time, Zuo Hongyuan and Bai Mao's father borrowed a gun to kill for her. This woman became his lover. But then I heard that she was wrapped up with several men outside. I know so much about her.
Man; When I was a kid, a bee farmer moved in near my house. My mother sneaks in every time and takes out a lot for me to eat
Woman; didn't your mother get stung? Beekeepers have to wear special clothes to pick them up.
Man; my mom said just light a smoking torch and the bees will disperse. If she didn't steal the honey and come back, she would be especially disappointed. Then eat an apple. I remember she told me that when people are the saddest, they will eat the whole apple with the core attached to it.
(The camera is on a man [white cat]. The man ate a whole apple.)
Background; Kaili City Meteorological Observatory issued a red rainstorm warning at 6:14 this evening. In the next three days, there will be heavy rainfall of more than 50 mm in Kaili City. Focus on preventing disasters such as mudslides.
lens twenty three
Man; what will you do if it rains heavily in two days?
woman; the weather forecast is inaccurate. Do you remember how to dye your hair? What I taught you before, you must have forgotten. When you were in the barbershop, you refused to study hard. Take the white cat out to play every day.
Man; in fact, every time he goes out, I accompany him to visit his father. I remember when I first met him when I was a child, he lied to me and said that his father's nickname was very powerful, called Eagle. It was only later that he learned that his father was in prison.
Woman; guess what color I dyed it?
Man; maybe a color that is only visible under the sun?
Woman; if it was your mother, what color would you dye it?
man; don't know, maybe red?
woman; red? Neuropathy, who will dye red
Man; I still feel dangerous, I've been in mudslides on the train and the train has turned back to Carey.
Woman; mudslides are not scary, but living in memory is scary
scene twenty four
(Cinema, man sits on the back left, pulls out a pistol)
Man; I've forgotten the name of that movie. I can't remember that the green book was really left to me by her, or I forgot it on the wall. I just remember when I went back to the leaky house and she was gone. I just remember that night, I deeply remembered the spell that could make the house spin. But what if the house could actually spin?
scene twenty five
(The man comes outside the karaoke hall)
Male; those female singers on the poster, are they still coming tonight?
Female; this place will be demolished at dawn tomorrow, they come to sing the last scene
Female; order a song to send a fruit plate, three songs to send service
Male; is there a singer named Wan Qiwen here?
Female; yes, Wan Qiwen, Meng Tingwei, Yamaguchi Baihui all have them
Male; is Wan Qiwen singing Japanese songs?
Female; she can sing whatever she wants to sing
male; how old
female; invisible at night
Male; what is painted on the wall of the karaoke hall?
Female; the door opens in an hour. You can go to the cinema first, and then you will find out.
(The man comes to the theater, puts on his glasses, and falls asleep slowly against the wall)
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