A Dinner to remember
If you had a chance to prepare dinner for your mother, would you choose to make it right now or some day in the future?
Watch the video Paradise Dinner by Liu Xiaoyu, a junior at Shijiazhuang-based Hebei Institute of Communications, and you will find a right answer.
Recently, the six-minute film won great acclaim on the Internet. It depicts the story of a son who made a big lunch for his mother, but he can only send the dinner to paradise, because his mother has passed away.
“If you do not show your filial piety to your mother right now, you might never have the opportunity in the future, because your mother is growing older and older by the day – this is the main theme of my film,” said the 21-year-old Liu.
Creative Inspiration
Liu’s story began during his first year of university in 2008, when he decided to set up a filmmaking team with several classmates.
Since the team members were just as new to filmmaking as Liu was, they experienced numerous difficulties at first. For example, when they were shooting footage in the street, many onlookers would interrupt their shooting process; when they were shooting in restaurants, the shop owners would drive them away.