Watching youth is a project supported by special funds for the development of national cultural industries. This is a film directed by Wang Ye and starring Lin Yongjian and Gong Hanlin. It was released in Chinese mainland on September 1.
The film is based on Qu Jianwu, a national moral model, a model of the times, and the winner of the honorary title of "the most beautiful struggler", and tells the touching story of the old counselor Liu Wei and his students in the past 30 years.
Introduction:
Liu Wei (Lin Yongjian), director of the Ideological and Political Teaching and Research Section of Haida University, was told that he had a malignant brain tumor before the start of the new semester, but the operation was risky and his life and death were unknown. Before the operation, he decided to let the student and counselor Wang Yifan (Dai Chao) accompany him to visit several classmates who had graduated for many years, and Diu Diu (Luo Ji), a "problem graduate" who refused to leave school, and the three of them embarked on a trip together.
This is a reunion trip between teachers and students spanning 30 years. Along the way, Wei Liu met Zhang Sheng, a poor student who felt inferior because of poverty, Guan Xu, a "loser" who was addicted to fighting in college, Xu Ping, a student who was lost in the desire for money and power, and Zhang Qian, a school beauty who was pestered and blackmailed by his eldest brother.
As time goes by, things change. What happened to them at the beginning and what kind of life are they living now? This is also a journey of intergenerational inheritance of mentoring. When Wei's best student wavered and had doubts about education, how did the "problem student" find the key to open his mind when he was addicted to his spiritual world because of family conflicts?