The film Nothing Demands is about the spiritual transmission between generations of Tsinghua people.
When Wu Linglan (Chen Chusheng), a master of Chinese studies, was young, he studied science that he didn't like because "the best students studied practical subjects".
When he was confused and depressed, President Mei Yiqi asked him, "What is the purpose of learning? People put themselves in the busy, there is a numbness and sureness, but there is no truth, your youth is only these days.
What is truth? What you saw, what you heard, what you did, who you were with. There is a kind of peace and joy that overflows from the deep heart, without regret or shame. "
Wu Linglan realized what is true: "When I was your age, I stayed away from the crowd for a while and thought about how to spend my life alone. One day, I happened to go to the library and heard Tagore's speech. Tagore was accompanied by the most famous scholar at that time.
Those people stood there, confident and firm, and I admired their calmness. Tagore was talking about how important it was to his own truth, and at that moment I was freed from the shame of thinking about the meaning of life. "
Wu Lanling warned the students in the lecture: "I hope you will not give up thinking about life and being true to yourself in the years to come."
This thought influenced Shen Guangyao (Wang Leehom) who was lost in confusion. At present, the national crisis, his mother (Michelle) earnestly advised him: you haven't figured out how to live, I'm afraid even your life is gone. Seeing that after being bombed by Japanese warplanes, his compatriots' homes were destroyed and his school was in ruins, he chose to follow his true thoughts, breaking his promise to his mother and becoming an air force pilot.
After every flight, we have to take a detour to deliver food to starving orphans. The instructor punished him, and repeating the flight route could easily expose that he was being followed by enemy planes, which was life-threatening. Shen Guangyao said what the official once said: What this era lacks is not perfect people, but sincerity, justice, fearlessness and sympathy from the bottom of my heart.
In a space battle, it was this spirit that made him hit the enemy ship without hesitation, sacrificed himself and let his comrades go home.
Chen Peng (Huang Xiaoming), a little boy who survived the rescue, becomes a nuclear weapons researcher. He, intern pharmacist Wang (Zhang Ziyi) and intern Li Xiang (ornaments) are orphans and good friends who grew up together. Wang's wronged teacher was often scolded by Jenny. She and Li Xiang wrote a letter of exposure. Later, she found herself making a scene in the hospital. Cowardly Li Xiang, afraid of ruining his future, pushed Wang to the forefront. Wang was criticized in public, had her hair cut off and was beaten and disfigured, but Li Xiang, who was separated by a wall, didn't save her.
Returning to his hometown with a disfigured king. Facing Wang's inferiority complex, he said, "Don't be afraid, I am the one who will help you. I will fall with you. No matter how deep you are, I will always support you. I am not afraid of anything, I am afraid that you will fall and push me away. "
Li Xiang thought the king was dead and wept bitterly at her grave. Chen Peng said to him: The dead are gone, and the living are like this.
Li Xiang felt guilty for the king. In an accident, he left all the food to Zhang's parents. When he found the rescue team, he was exhausted and sacrificed after telling the specific location. His last words before he died were: the dead are gone, so are the living.
In the last story told in the film, advertising director Zhang () doesn't seem to like intrigue in the workplace. The story of his parents conveyed the spirit of Li Xiang. Guo decided to listen to his true thoughts and made a wise choice. Instead of exposing his boss, he chose to continue raising quadruplets.
Four stories, four representatives of Tsinghua students, four backgrounds of different times and four brave hearts are a kind of spiritual transmission. They all listened to their inner guidance and made the best choice in their own time.
The world may not be as beautiful as you think, but it is not as bad as you think. In this world, there are always people who will choose kindness even if they encounter the evil of human nature.
Around this theme, the film will pass on the thinking of life, the inner truth and the goodness of human nature from generation to generation, and it will slowly affect the whole society like the butterfly effect.
As Zhang told quadruplets in infancy, did it also affect your going to the movies?
"If you know the life you have to face in advance, I wonder if you will have the courage to come? What you see and hear often makes you depressed.
Secularities are so powerful that they can't think of a way to change them. When you grow up, you will come out because of the green shoots, cheer and jump at the rising sun, and give others kindness and warmth and happiness. But while praising other lives, we often forget our own preciousness, even forever.
May you remember your own preciousness and resist malice when you are hit.
I hope that when you are confused, you firmly believe in your own preciousness, love what you love, do what you should do, listen to your heart, and ask for nothing more. "