The Return of Wan Li is the first time to focus on China diplomats' evacuation behind the scenes, with a fresh theme. Diplomats have no swords and guns, but they have gone through thousands of difficulties and dangers and brought their compatriots back to the motherland in the war. Behind this is the strength of China and the courage and wisdom of China diplomats. Zhang Yi, Yin Tao and other actors performed at a high level. The audience followed the long journey of evacuating overseas Chinese and trudged to Wan Li. Seeing the sufferings on earth, they cherished the peace and happiness they were having.
Based on the true story of "Rescuing a boy with a broken arm in Hotan, Xinjiang", Ordinary Hero tells the story of a seven-year-old boy crossing 1400 km in eight golden hours to complete emergency treatment. This film vividly depicts the sentient and righteous social groups in China with more realistic brushstrokes. "Ordinary Hero" is the most direct adaptation of the news event "Xinjiang Hotan saves the brokeback boy". In the whole story adaptation, the director did not do too much drama creation, but restored the event itself as much as possible.
His appeal to screenwriter You Xiaoying is not to edit for the sake of editing, but to present a true and meaningful story. Before Chen Guohui actually shot the film, he hesitated whether the news event was enough to support the film. To this end, he interviewed all the people involved in the incident. He found that the doctor said it was dangerous to spend more than six hours, and these people were an indispensable part of these six hours.
Compared with the two, I think "Ordinary Hero" is quite touching. Personally think the latter is better.