After the movie "The Long Night Is Coming to an End" was released, the theme song "Lion Dark Clouds" also attracted the attention of the audience. This song, sung by Beautiful Pharmacy, does not follow the expression path of common movie songs that directly boost emotions, but uses a more restrained and calm way to leave room for the film's realistic texture and the destiny of the characters. As the theme song,"Lion Dark Clouds" is not just a repetition of the movie's emotions, but continues to carry on the complex feelings of aging, disability, care, decency and death after the film ends.
"The Long Night Is Ending" focuses on the disabled elderly, caregivers and the family relationships behind them, bringing back an oft-avoided realistic issue to the audience. The old, dying lion in the film, which is eventually sold to the winery, is a very representative visual image. Its aging, sleepy and loss of power reflect to some extent the life faced by many characters in the film. Situation: When a life continues to be consumed by time and reality, what remains in the end may be just a little instinct that is unwilling to completely surrender its dignity. This also makes the "lion" in "Lion Dark Clouds" not only a song image, but also another extension of the film's realistic theme.
In the lyrics,"The lion in my heart who has never run on the grassland" and "The lion in my heart who has died and died 10,000 times" correspond to those characters in "The Long Night Is Ending" who are trapped by disease, aging and reality: They once had a complete life, a clear identity and a stable position, but gradually lost their ability to move over a long period of consumption and the conditions to be treated as "complete people."
Another set of expressions in the lyrics,"Return yesterday to yesterday, return the sky to the sky" and "Return the soul to the soul, return the sea to the sea" further amplifies this adaptability. It is not lyrical in the simple sense, but like a kind of return and let go. Back in the context of the movie, this kind of "restitution" is closer to the final identification of life, relationships and self-dignity when the characters face irreversible decline.
From this perspective,"The Lion Dark Clouds" is not a simple emotional supplement to "The Long Night Is Ending", but a re-tightening and extension of the film's theme. It keeps the unspoken parts in the audience's hearts: about aging, about farewell, about life still refuses to be completely extinguished under the dark clouds. It is precisely because of this end song and the film form a mutually illuminating relationship, allowing the realistic quality of "The Long Night Is Ending" to continue to echo outside the screen.
After the film was released on the National Arts Federation special line, it attracted widespread praise from the audience. Many viewers believe that the power of the film does not only come from the theme itself, but also lies in the fact that it always puts the characters first and touches people's hearts with reality. The performances of the two protagonists in the film are even more surprising. Ye Xiaolin, played by Wan Qian, vividly interprets the complexity of the characters in multiple layers, condensing the characters 'suppression, hesitation and resistance in difficult situations, and the emotional tension is progressive and convincing; In addition to Rao Xiaozhi's role as a producer, his role in Ma Deyong this time also adds a layer of convergence and silence to the role relationship, playing this self-abased and desperate middle-aged man.
The film was filmed in Guizhou and was produced by Emei Film Group Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Yiyi Yiyi Cultural Media Co., Ltd., Shanghai Xiaoqing Cultural Media Co., Ltd., Huawen Image (Beijing) Film Co., Ltd., Chongqing Letaotao Cultural Media Co., Ltd., Horgos Lianrui Film Co., Ltd., Beijing Zhenguo Future Culture Development Co., Ltd., and Beijing Free Cool Whale Film Co., Ltd. Beijing Reunion Film Co., Ltd., Beijing Intercontinental Brothers Film and Television Culture Co., Ltd., Wushang Yunqi Film (Ningbo) Co., Ltd., Beijing Happiness Vision Cultural Media Co., Ltd., Beijing Creative Seer International Cultural Development Co., Ltd., Shanghai Wuxing Jijia Sports and Entertainment Development Co., Ltd. Co-produced.