Chapter 236: Xu Can: I'm Not Interested in Box Office Numbers

"Dying to Survive" premiered worldwide simultaneously, with audiences around the world watching this Chinese-language film.

Although outside the East Asian sphere, few other countries could pick up on Huaxia culture.

Yet the hardships of the common people are universal, and so is the agony of struggling desperately against a terminal illness.

When the protagonist's team sold generic drugs through various channels and made a fortune,

Even foreigners could feel the profound emotions the film conveyed,

There were no flashy editing, no exhilarating battles, and even the entire film so far had only a brief twenty-second risqué shot of a dancer on a pole,

The other ninety-nine percent of the time was plain, unadorned, and dull imagery,

Yet the plot's manipulation of the audience's emotions was anything but dull — there was even a touch of hot-blooded passion!

At the thirty-four-minute mark, the first act's performance was on par with any classic, high-rated film.

Xu Can's director's skill, along with the entire cast's consistently on-point acting, was jaw-dropping!

……

Then the plot aligned with "Dying to Survive": in the process of making money,

The protagonist Cheng Yong saw the light of hope in the numb eyes of those patients,

The more patients he encountered, the greater the impact on him.

At first, when patients gave him the banner reading "A Benevolent Heart and Skillful Hands to Save All Beings, Leaving an Eternal Name in the Mortal World," Cheng Yong didn't take it seriously and treated it as a joke.

Looking back at that banner now, it already bore a weighty burden.

At the same time, the protagonist team's expanding sales territory drew the attention of the police.

Zhou Yiwei's police captain Cao Bin began investigating Cheng Yong's counterfeit drug operation.

The alternating parallel of the two storylines kept the audience in the theater on edge,

Especially the soft-hearted Mei Mei, who couldn't help but worry for the protagonist.

"The police won't catch him, will they? Those people are so pitiful — why arrest him? What happened to him later?"