Chinese 2006 starts with the Beijing Film Academy Art Examination

Name: "The Last Race"

Story summary: The protagonist Liu Xinghua, 70 years old this year, the gold medalist of the Jinling Marathon in 1958, had to move out of the community where he had lived for many years after his wife Zhang Lan fell again, and lived in a nursing home with his wife.

Because his only son Liu Xiangdong is a co-pilot of an airline, divorced, and flying all year round, he has basically no time to take care of his parents.

The son's income is not low, so the nursing home is very high-end. In order to enrich the spare time of the elderly, the nursing home also offers a variety of interest courses.

Painting and calligraphy, handicrafts, etc.

However, Liu Xinghua felt boring and lonely. After staring at the handmade materials, he took out his old running shoes and started running in the yard, one circle after another. He was tired and panting after running a few steps, and then he ran faster and faster, and claimed that he would participate in next year's marathon and cheer for the Olympics.

This also made him criticized, because his disobedience interfered with the normal operation of the nursing home. The hospital was very opposed and used various means to stop it.

His son Liu Xiangdong also came back from afar, complaining that his father should not cause trouble for him at his most critical stage of advancement.

Therefore, the two sides often had disputes, and finally Liu Xinghua proposed that the hospital send someone to compete with him for 15 laps. If he could beat him, he would accept his fate.

During this period, Liu Xinghua also unconsciously infected some of the elderly and became their hope to resist the rules.

His wife Zhang Lan also became his coach, once again recording data for him and adjusting the plan.

Naturally, there were also elderly people who did not want to change the status quo and sneered or tripped him up.

After the start of the game, the young caregiver was far ahead, but Liu Xinghua was not in a hurry, and his wife just reminded him to keep up the speed.

Halfway through the race, Liu Xinghua, who had been lagging behind, began to accelerate and gradually caught up with the caregiver, but the caregiver accelerated and widened the distance between him and Liu Xinghua.

Until the last half lap, the caregiver was exhausted, Liu Xinghua still maintained a uniform speed, and exerted force at the last moment, overtaking the caregiver before the finish line, and he won.

The elderly people who were watching applauded fiercely, as if it was not only Liu Xinghua who won, but also themselves.

After the game, the elderly sat together to celebrate for Liu Xinghua, but it eventually turned into a complaint meeting, telling their helplessness.

They had children, but they could only live lonely and boring in the nursing home.

However, everyone was still happy during this chat, because it was a rare day in the years of silence.

The next day, the hospital did not care about it on the surface, but secretly invited a neurologist and asked him to diagnose Liu Xinghua as unsuitable for running.

This made Liu Xinghua very repulsive. He thought that his body was very good and he did not need to see a doctor.

However, under the various inverted and forced questions of the neurologist, the result was that Liu Xinghua's memory declined.

For example:

"Please remember three words: flowers, candles, and fruits"

Liu Xinghua repeated it with a confused look on his face.

Then the doctor began to ask various questions, what did you eat yesterday, what did you eat the day before yesterday, and suddenly asked what the first three words were while chatting.

Liu Xinghua felt that the doctor was playing a trick on him and pushed the doctor, so he came to another conclusion that he had a strong tendency to manic depression.

In the end, Liu Xinghua dragged his suitcase and ran out of the nursing home with his wife, but he did not go home.

Instead, he contacted his media friends and went to the TV station to tell all the unfair treatment he and his wife had received in the nursing home.

"I have encountered many bad days, wars before the founding of the People's Republic of China, famines and chaos afterwards, but I never gave in, but always persisted. This is the way of survival for our generation.

We are not that bad, we just look old."

"Life is a marathon. At the beginning, you will feel very relaxed, and you firmly believe that nothing can stop you, but then you will feel pain, and your strength will gradually weaken. Many times you will feel that you can't hold on, but you still run, keep running, until you are completely exhausted, and victory is at the finish line, and you firmly believe that you can win."

In the nursing home, everyone was watching the TV program on which Liu Xinghua appeared.

After that, the elderly collectively became negative about the various time-killing projects arranged by the nursing home.

The hospital always said that the outside world did not belong to them, but now they know that this is a lie and brainwashing.

The hospital said that Liu Xinghua had communicated with them, regretted it, and was looking forward to living in the nursing home again.

A short old man suddenly became emotional and angry after hearing this.

"How long do you want to lie to us?"

"Liu Xinghua can run. He is 70, but he lives in the outside world."

Liu Xinghua and his wife went to his son's house and decided to sign up for the marathon after dawn.

The father and son had another argument late at night, and the son subconsciously exposed the fact that he knew about the hospital sending a neurologist.

But his wife's painful groan in her sleep interrupted the conversation between the father and son.

The next day, Liu Xinghua and his wife took the subway as usual and went to the registration point for the marathon.

But they were told that the registration time had expired. Just when they were disappointed, his wife Zhang Lan asked if they could make an exception.

Once, they could make an exception if they ran under two hours and forty minutes.

And Liu Xinghua also saw a photo of him when he was young at the registration point.

The son had no time to take care of his parents, so he came to the nursing home again. He heard the complaints from the nursing home that his father's arrival had disrupted the entire nursing home. It was already difficult for them to manage more than 200 elderly people with only a few people.

The son had to go home to persuade his parents to return to the nursing home, but he saw that his father was busy doing things, but he made a mess, so a quarrel broke out again.

His wife Zhang Lan stood firmly on her husband's side.

During another training run in the park, Liu Xinghua was recognized and praised for being awesome. Liu Xinghua couldn't help but speed up proudly, but heard the sound of an ambulance.

His wife fainted again, and was found by passers-by who called 120 and sent her to the hospital. The doctor said that his wife had a tumor in her brain and it was already in the late stage.

The sad Liu Xinghua went to the gym with his wife and revealed his idea of ​​leaving with his wife.

But his wife said that he must participate in the competition and must continue running, and asked Liu Xinghua to solemnly promise her that if Liu Xinghua didn't run, he would become the biggest joke.

That night, the two recalled a lot, about how they met, got to know each other, and fell in love.

But the next morning, his wife never woke up again.

After the funeral, Liu Xinghua kept nagging about his wife's past, and his son couldn't stand it. Because his father had been disobedient several times and his mother had passed away, he had lost the qualification to compete.

So he negotiated with his father that he had to move to a nursing home. His son was really unable to take care of him, and his father didn't want to find a nanny.

Liu Xinghua didn't argue anymore, and left his son's house in silence, wandering aimlessly, and lying on the park chair where his wife fainted late at night.