Synopsis
Xiong, the barbecue stall owner who is waiting for a kidney transplant, hesitates to obtain the source of “kidney” through special means. Jiajia, a 30-year-old woman who concealed her identity as an “organ intermediary”, worries about whether she can still have children. Dong, who lives and eats in the yellow label van, looks forward to a gentle date, but it always backfires. Xiaolei, an unemployed young man obsessed with Internet cafes, envies the so-called free life of Shenzhen’s “Sanhe God”. The mysterious executor, Xiaobai, lives in a circular “then” and is unconscious. These “fish in a jar” meet because of their “kidneys”, but they don’t care about each other. They just live in their own world and continue to be the fish who try to survive.
T-Bang
I graduated from Guangzhou University of Foreign Language with a bachelor’s degree and got master’s degree from the China Film Archive. During college, I was engaged in a rock music band and participated in the recording of music collection of “southern rock” and “modern sky”. After graduating from China Film Archive, I worked as a screenwriter and director.
Director's statement
Just like the name of this film, “lives in the bottle”, I seem to be like the character in the film, who was turned into a fish by the blade of the times, and like a fish in a jar, struggling to live and die, even if it is only a breath, Will also make an effort. We surround the character, follow and approach, but it seems that we cannot enter the character’s heart. The camera moves with the character, or dead silence, or creeping, or jumping.
